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  United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa: full text of Convention

  Convention to Combat Desertification, 1994

  Full text of the Convention to Combat Desertification, which was elaborated by the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INCD) and signed in June 1994.Also available from the CCD WWW site in French and English
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  An Assessment of European - aided Watershed Development Projects in India from the Perspective of Poverty Reduction and the poor

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998

  The paper assesses four Watershed Development Projects in India supported by European donors, namely Karnataka Watershed Development Project (Danida), Doon Valley Integrated Watershed Management Project (European Commission), Karnataka Integrated Watershed Management Project (Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau) and Karnataka Watershed Development Project (Overseas Development Administration/Department
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  Encouraging Sustainable Smallholder Agriculture in Southern Africa in the Context of Agricultural Services Reform

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1998

  Summarises the results of six DFID funded country studies on encouraging sustainable agriculture in South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi. It emphasises the need for continuing government and donor support for sustainable increases in agricultural productivity which must underpin poverty alleviation.
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  Risk management in rural development

  Rural Development Strategy Team, World Bank, 2001

  The task here is to assess the relevance of risk-analysis findings to rural development in impoverished countries around the world.
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  Malawi: Services and policies needed to support sustainable smallholder agriculture

  Environment and Development Consultancy Ltd, 1997

  Malawi’ s smallholder agriculture is facing a crisis, particularly in the more populated south. There is an insidious combination of land shortage, continuous cultivation of maize, declining soil fertility, low yields, deforestation, poverty and high population growth rate.
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  Participatory Governance: The Missing Link for Poverty Reduction

  OECD Development Centre, 1999

  Empowerment of the poor is one ingredient in effective poverty reduction. A demand-driven participatory approach enhances effectiveness and efficiency. Accountability is the central lever for participatory governance. Capacity building is necessary for making participatory governance a reality.
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  Organic agriculture and sustainable rural Livelihoods in developing countries

  Ethical Trade and Natural Resources Programme, NRI, 1998

  Examines the contribution ethical trade initiatives can make towards the goal of sustainable rural livelihoods.

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