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  Status report on participatory rural development in Pakistan's Punjab (FAO)

  People's Participation, FAO SD Dimensions, 1999
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  Effect of group formation on rural women's access to services in Western Province, Zambia (FAO)

  People's Participation, FAO SD Dimensions, 1999
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  Plan of Action for People's Participation in Rural Development, FAO

  People's Participation, FAO SD Dimensions, 1999
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  Integrating gender into emergency responses (BRIDGE)

  BRIDGE, 1999
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  FAO Plan of Action for Women in Development

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1999
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  Targeting assistance to the poor and food insecure: a literature review

  The Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics - Michigan State University, 1995

  This report is a comprehensive review of the literature and summary of “targeting” programs that deliver food assistance to the poor and food insecure. It provides definitions, ra-tionales for targeting, analysis of benefits and costs (political and administrative) of various targeting mechanisms, and descriptions of targeting methods.
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  The poor relation: a political economy of the marketing chain for dagaa in Tanzania

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1997

  Dagaa is the collective name in Tanzania for various types of sardine-like fish eaten in a dried form by poor and middle-income groups throughout eastern and southern Africa. This paper is a fieldwork-based case-study of the ‘commodity chain’ for dagaa.
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  Of saviours and punks: the political economy of the Nile perch marketing chain in Tanzania

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1997

  The paper is a fieldwork-based case study of the commodity chain for the Nile Perch fish from Lake Victoria, Tanzania. This fish first began apperaring in significant numbers in the lake in the early 1980s and within a few years a large artisanal fishery developed around it.
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  Supporting sustainable agriculture through extension in Asia

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1997

  There are widespread concerns about the environmental impact of agricultural technologies and over the long-term sustainability of farming systems in Asia. Although the content of extension programmes includes sustainable technologies, extension approaches and methods in the public sector continue to reflect a technology transfer paradigm.
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  Traditional African values and their use in implementing Agenda 21

  Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor - Indigenous Knowledge WorldWide, 1995

  This article argues that efforts to achieve the promotion of sustainable development within the framework of Agenda 21 should be based on reexamining and applying indigenous knowledge and techniques, as opposed to the wholesale importation of Westernized methods and ideas. The aim should be to attain the optimum combination of the best practices from traditional and modern knowledge.

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