The group warned against assuming that policies designed for growth combined with improved natural resource management will necessarily always and everywhere alleviate poverty. Since not all degradation is caused by the poor, nor do all poor people degrade the environment, poverty alleviation deserves a high priority in both the research and policymaking agendas in its own right. In the process of taking into consideration actors other than the government, levels other than the national, and mechanisms through which effective institutional links can be forged, the participants did not always reach consensus. The plenary reconvened on the fourth day to sum up recommendations. Download full-text workshop summary paper .
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