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  Assessment of group-based savings/credit scheme in rural Pakistan

  People's Participation, FAO SD Dimensions, 1998

  This report is the result of a consultancy undertaken between 25.09 and 11.12.97 concerning a detailed study of the savings-credit component of the FAO participatory rural development project "Involvement of the rural poor in development through self-help groups in the rural Punjab" (GCP/PAK/079/NET) implemented by the Faisalabad Agricultural University Pakistan, in collaboration with the Agricult
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  An Assessment of European - aided Watershed Development Projects in India from the Perspective of Poverty Reduction and the poor

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998

  The paper assesses four Watershed Development Projects in India supported by European donors, namely Karnataka Watershed Development Project (Danida), Doon Valley Integrated Watershed Management Project (European Commission), Karnataka Integrated Watershed Management Project (Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau) and Karnataka Watershed Development Project (Overseas Development Administration/Department
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  The impact of HIV/AIDS on farming households in the Monze District of Zambia

  Centre for Development Studies, Bath University, 1997

  This paper focuses on how HIV/AIDS undermines household responsiveness to cope with crises, such as new agricultural policy reforms, HIV/AIDS, years of drought, and death of cattle. It uses a collection of 32 household case-studies. It investigates how caring for a chronically ill family member impinges on household production and alters labour allocation between genders and generations.
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  Economic and social components of migration in two regions of Southern Province, Zambia

  Centre for Development Studies, Bath University, 1997

  Paper addresses the migration process in the Zambia's Southern Province. Until recently when droughts and cattle diseases have begun to plague the area, Southern Province was known for its ideal farming conditions.
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  Biopiracy, TRIPS and the Patenting of Asia's Rice Bowl: A collective NGO situationer on IPRs on rice

  GRAIN, 1998

  Nearly all Asian countries are committed to the WTO TRIPs treaty. This means that by the year 2000, Asian governments have to make intellectual property titles on seeds completely legal. This will favor transnational corporations who want to control agriculture and the world's food system through genetic engineering.
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  Signposts To Sui Generis Rights: Resource materials from the international seminar on sui generis rights

  GRAIN, 1997

  TRIPS requires developing countries to enact intellectual property rights (IPR) legislation for plant varieties by the year 2000, while least-developed countries have until 2005. This can be in the form of classic industrial patent systems or some "effective sui generis system".
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  Ten reasons not to join UPOV [Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants]

  GRAIN, 1998

  Developing countries are currently facing intense pressure to institute intellectual property rights (IPRs) for plant varieties. Despite the fact that the brief history of IPRs over plants and biological resources has undermined local biodiversity in the North and precipitated corporate monopolies over the food system, Southern countries are being forced to travel the same path.
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  Staking Their Claims: Land Disputes in Southern Mozambique

  Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1997

  Conflicting interests in land and resource use emerged in postwar Mozambique, giving rise to multiple layers of dispute. This article explores the disputes occurring between 1992 and 1995 in two districts which are notable for the severity of competition over land by virtue of their proximity to Maputo, namely, Matutuíne and Namaacha.
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  The 12 Misconceptions About The Right to Food

  FoodFirst Information and Action Network, 1999

  Brief answers to the following misconceptions that need to be addressed by recognizing economic human rights and using this knowledge to struggle against economic oppression of the poor and future generations:1. We do not need rights but food.2. Modern western agriculture will eventually produce enough food for everyone.3.
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  The right to food Report of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

  United Nations [UN] High Commission for Refugees, 1999

  Question of the realization in all countries of the economic, social and cultural rights contained in the universal declaration of human rights and in the international covenant on economic, social and cultural rights, and study of special problems which the developing countries face in their efforts to achieve these human rights.A mandate was given to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

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