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  Banking for the future: savings, security and seeds: a short study of community seed banks in Bangladesh, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Honduras, India, Nepal, Thailand, Zambia and Zimbabwe

  Development Fund, Norway, 2011

  The aim of seed banks is to increase food security and contribute to the continued utilisation of locally important genetic diversity. This paper is sought to document the experiences of community seed banks (CSBs) in a number of developing countries. The paper concludes that: 
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  Observations on the intersections of human rights and local practice: a livelihood perspective on water

  Law, Social Justice and Global Development Journal, 2008

  This report explores how local water management practices incorporate water within a broader right to livelihood framework. Field research findings conducted in Zimbabwe support the existence of a right to water forming part of a broader right to livelihood.
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  Support models for CSOs at country level: Zimbabwe country report

  Scanteam, 2007

  The economic situation in Zimbabwe is affecting all walks of life and economic migration is widespread and profound. All of the Nordic donor countries present in Zimbabwe have the same type of strategic framework to civil society support. The six Nordic donors commissioned a review of alternative models of support to civil society within six countries.
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  Support models for CSOs at country level: synthesis report

  Scanteam, 2007

  The six "Nordic" donors - Canada, Finland, Ireland, Norway, Sweden and the UK - commissioned a review of alternative models of support to civil society. This document is the result and aims to review these experiences.
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  Modelling of a solar stove: small scale concentrating system with heat storage (potential for cooking in rural areas, Zimbabwe)

  Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2007

  The objective of this document is to serve as an in-depth technical introduction to small-scale concentrating systems tailored for application especially in rural areas in Africa located outside the national electricity grids.
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  Of global concern: rural livelihood dynamics and natural resource governance

  Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2006

  The global challenges of hunger, poverty and disease have led to an increasing focus within global initiatives - policies and strategies - on conditions and developments in rural areas in the South. The aim of this paper is to analyse and understand the rural livelihood dynamics and natural resource governance that are unfolding across continents.
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  Human rights, formalisation and women’s land rights in southern and eastern Africa

  Institute of Women's Law, University of Oslo, 2005

  Land is a vital resource for rural livelihoods. Establishing and clarifying land rights through formalisation has become a key issue in development policies that aim to promote more productive uses of land. This report sets out a human rights-based approach (HRBA) for gender-equal and non-discriminatory land reform.
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  Management, co-management or no management? Major dilemmas in southern African freshwater fisheries; case studies

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2003

  This report contains ten case studies which serve as background for a synthesis report published in 2003 (see Further Information). They have been conducted in five medium sized lakes in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
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  Addressing seed security in disaster response: linking relief with development

  Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical, Colombia, 2004

  This volume contains eight case studies on seed aid in Africa. The case studies were undertaken to evaluate various forms of emergency seed aid in the field and to couple these with analyses of the broader seed and crop systems.
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  Intersections of human rights and customs: a livelihood perspective on water laws

  Natural Resources Institute, UK, 2005

  Does a human rights approach to water actually support to the multiple ways in which men and women actually share and manage water in rural contexts?

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