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  Gender and sustainable development in drylands: an analysis of field experiences

  Gender and Development, FAO Sustainable Dimensions, 2003

  With an estimated 40 percent of people in Africa, South America and Asia living in drylands, land degradation poses a significant threat to food security and survival. This report looks at the relationship between gender and dryland management based on an analysis of field experiences in Africa and Asia.
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  Trade Liberalisation and the Crop Sector in Bangladesh

  Centre for Policy Dialogue, Bangladesh, 2003

  The liberalisation of the crop sector in Bangladesh will affect more than just production and imports. As the source of staple food, livelihood and employment for millions of people, changes in the crop sector could have far-reaching impacts on poverty and welfare. This paper addresses some of these issues and their implications.
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  National Agricultural Research Systems experiences in the use of participatory approaches to animal health research in Kenya

  Institutional and Policy Support Team, AU, 2003

  This paper highlights experiences arising from the use of participatory approaches (PAs) in animal health research by some National Agricultural Research Systems (NARS) in Kenya.
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  Pro-poor irrigation management transfer?

  International Water Management Institute, 2003

  This briefing argues that Irrigation Management Transfer (IMT) can contribute to rural poverty by aggravating existing inequities within irrigation schemes or introducing new ones.
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  Successes in African agriculture: results of an expert survey

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003

  Using primary data from a survey of expert opinion, this paper identifies key successes emerging in African agriculture.
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  Hands not land: how livelihoods are changing in rural Bangladesh

  Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, 2002

  This book provides some ideas for development practitioners on how to approach the challenge of the eradication of poverty in Bangladesh. Its origins lie in a study of rural livelihoods commissioned in 2000-2001 by DFID UKThis book is an overview of research papers that examine the life and livelihoods of people living in rural Bangladesh.
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  Adoption potential of rotational hedgerow intercropping in the humid lowlands of Cameroon

  Agricultural Research and Extension Network, 2000

  Reports on and on-farm evaluation of hedgerow intercropping by the IRA/ ICRAF Programme in the lowlands of Cameroon, which has been in progress since 1988. Throughout the years the biophysical performance of the system was found to be inferior under farmer management on farm to that achieved on station. At the same time, farmers' interest in the technology was far below the expectations.
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  Trees outside forests: an essential tool for desertification control in the Sahel

  Unasylva, FAO, 2000

  This article focuses on lessons about desertification and the potential of trees as part of the solution, drawn from a specific rural situation in the Sahel, that of Keita, Tahoua Department, the Niger.
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  Global farming systems study: challenges and priorities to 2030

  Rural Development Strategy Team, World Bank, 2001

  For more than a decade, the proportion of internationally supported public investment directed at agriculture and the rural sector in developing countries has been declining. Moreover, this is occuring at a time in which the process of globalisation is changing patters of trade and investment, placing agricultural producers and communities under tremendous pressure to adapt in order to survive.
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  Integrating participatory research methods in a public agricultural research organisation: a partially successful experience in Morocco

  Agricultural Research and Extension Network, 2001

  Reports on a project of institutional capacity development for participatory research, undertaken by the INRA in Morocco.

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