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  The Millennium Villages Project: a new approach to ending rural poverty in Africa?

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2006

  The Millennium Villages Project (MVP), an initiative of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, is an attempt at an integrated and bottom-up approach to getting African villages out of the poverty trap. It involves massive injections of capital targeted at, presently, a handful of villages, combining agricultural support with health, infrastructure and education interventions.
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  The unresolved land reform debate: beyond state-led or market-led models

  International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2006

  Sharp inequalities in the distribution of land remains a major cause of extreme poverty in many developing countries. Some instances are the result of ownership patterns inherited from colonial administrations, others are linked to the struggle for economic prosperity in the post-independence era.Landlessness is therefore a significant problem for the rural poor.
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  Millennium Development Goal of halving poverty in Asia and the Pacific region: progress, prospects and priorities

  International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2006

  Extreme poverty in the developing world is overwhelmingly rural. As a result, rural and agricultural development has a vital role to play in achieving the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of halving poverty in Asia and the Pacific.
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  Social protection mechanisms in southern Africa

  Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2006

  Social protection is a relatively new concept in southern Africa. Regular, predictable and guaranteed transfers to the vulnerable in most countries have yet to be integrated into existing policies safeguarding lives following livelihood shocks such as drought and conflict.
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  NAV evaluation report - the integrated rural development program 1994 - 2004

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2004

  This paper presents an evaluation of a Nordic Assistance to Vietnam (NAV) programme initiated in 1994 in Thua Thien-Hue province in Central Vietnam.
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  Tinkering on the fringes?: redistributive land reforms and chronic poverty in Southern Africa

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2006

  In Southern Africa, landlessness due to the asset alienation that occurred during colonial occupation has been acknowledged as one of several ultimate causes of chronic poverty. Land redistribution is often seen as a powerful tool in the fight against poverty in areas where a majority of people are rural-based and make a living mostly, if not entirely, off the land.
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  An Phu integrated community development project: final evaluation phase 1: 2000 - 2004

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2005

  This report presents the main findings of the final evaluation of the first phase of the An Phu integrated community development project.
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  Special evaluation study on small-scale freshwater rural aquaculture development for poverty reduction

  Operations Evaluation Department, Asian Development Bank, 2004

  Linking aquaculture development approaches to viable livelihood opportunities for the rural poor remains a challenge. The poor face many constraints to participation in aquaculture, primarily due to a lack of access to capital and resources, vulnerability, and aversion to risks.
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  Poverty alleviation and forests in Vietnam

  Center for International Forestry Research, 2005

  Vietnam, like many developing countries, has seen an emerging interest in knowing to what extent and in what ways poverty alleviation can be achieved through the use of forest resources. Simultaneously, there is a need to achieve a balance between poverty alleviation efforts and maintenance or expansion of forest cover.
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  Understanding rural poverty and investment in agriculture: an assessment of integrated quantitative and qualitative research in Western Kenya

  Q-Squared: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches in Poverty Analysis, 2005

  This article attempts to analyse how and when to combine quantitative and qualitative research methods to improve understanding of how to identify the poor, the nature of poverty, its causes, and its consequences for agricultural practices.

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