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Searching with a thematic focus on Agriculture and food, Animal production and health, Pastoralism, Poverty

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    Wildlife and poverty study: phase one report

    Department for International Development, UK, 2001
    Report aimed at producucing recommendations to DFID on an appropriate strategy for interventions which link rural livelihoods to wildlife and common natural resources.
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    Situation analysis of children in Tanzania

    Tanzania Online, 2001
    This report on the situation of children in Tanzania is informed by a human rights-based perspective on the well-being and development of children.The document states that although there have been signinficant macro-level developments in Tanzania these have yet to be translated into concrete improvements in the lives of children.
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    Gambling with goats: variability in herd growth among restocked pastoralists in Kenya

    Pastoral Development Network, ODI, 1989
    The growth of individual, north Kenyan, pastoralist families' herds of smallstock, given to them in restocking schemes, is followed over several years. Very poor families given similar herds at the start of the project showed great variation in herd sizes by the end of the period analysed.
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    Hunter-gatherers, conservation and development: from prejudice to policy reform

    Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1999
    Communities of present-day or former hunter-gatherers live in scattered communities across the world, although their precise numbers and status are very uncertain. Their often marginalised status and ethnolinguistic diversity has made it hard to articulate their case for land rights outside Australia and North America.
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    Strengthening pastoral institutions in North-West China pastoral area to access improved extension services for risk management and poverty alleviation

    Sustainable Development Department, FAO SD Dimensions, 2001
    This report documents the in-depth situation assessment on Pastoral Risk Management and Poverty Alleviation, in Dari County.
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    Pastoral institutions and approaches to risk management and poverty alleviation in Central Asian countries in transition

    Sustainable Development Department, FAO SD Dimensions, 1999
    Outlines new notion (risk management) of poverty alleviation among pastoralist communites in Central Asia. Pastoralists may either harness the beneficial effects of risk and uncertainty (i.e. fluctuations in commodity price of livestock) or attempt to manage the destructive effects of risk and uncertainty (i.e.
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    Namibia: encouraging sustainable smallholder agriculture

    Environment and Development Consultancy Ltd, 1997
    Report recommends agriculture-sector poliy objective of risk reduction, production stability, and the diversification of agricultural and non-agricultural economic opportunities in the rural areas. The most fundamental problem remains, seven years after independence, the lack of a clear policy, administrative structures and legislation dealing with land allocation, tenure and management.
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    Botswana: Encouraging sustainable family sector agriculture

    Environment and Development Consultancy Ltd, 1997
    Paper concentrates on services and policies needed to support sustainable family sector agriculture in the east of Botswana where the majority of the population and the largest number of resource poor people are concentrated. It does not attempt to look in detail at the needs of the 'Remote Area Dwellers’ although they experience extreme poverty, as this is a specific subject area.
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    Education provision to nomadic pastoralists: a literature review

    Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2001
    This literature review explores issues relating to education provision to nomadic pastoralists. Pastoralists are often considered to be educational 'failures' (in terms of enrolment, attendance, classroom performance etc). Despite this, pastoralists manifest high levels of specialisation and sophistication within the diverse activities they engage in as pastoralists.
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    Restocking and poverty alleviation: perceptions and realities of livestock-keeping among poor pastoralists in Kenya

    Livestock Development Studies Group, 2001
    This article investigates the development of decision support tools for pastoral restocking projects.

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