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    Urban maize meal consumption patterns: strategies for improving food access for vulnerable urban households in Kenya

    Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1995
    This report examines maize consumption patterns in response to policy changes in Kenya and the implications for urban food security. It is based on empirical evidence from a household survey. The researchers’ five conclusions challenge conventional assumptions about fixed consumer tastes and preferences in relation to agriculture policy.
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    Agricultural technology development and transfer in Africa : impacts achieved and lessons learned

    Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1997
    This document provides a synthesis of nearly a decade of socio-economic studies, conducted by a number of scientists funded from a variety of sources, quantifying the impacts of Technology development and transfer (TDT), institutionalization of impact assessment, and needed innovations in African agricultural TDT.
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    Stimulating indigenous agribusiness development in the northern communal areas of Namibia : a concept paper

    Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1997
    This concept paper proposes (a) market driven farm and off-farm entrepreneurial options, that could take advantage of the existing opportunities, thus leading to the creation of indigenous oriented economic growth and (b) empowerment of the small and medium scale private enterprises to create an enabling environment conducive for equitable growth of their businesses.
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    Zambia: encouraging sustainable smallholder agriculture

    Environment and Development Consultancy Ltd, 1997
    Main purpose of this report is to present a balanced assessment of prospects for sustainable growth in smallholder agriculture in Zambia in the light of recent reforms. Given their historical underdevelopment in Zambia, and policy emphasis on the interface between state and market, the report also focuses particularly on the role of NGOs.
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    Malawi: Services and policies needed to support sustainable smallholder agriculture

    Environment and Development Consultancy Ltd, 1997
    Malawi’ s smallholder agriculture is facing a crisis, particularly in the more populated south. There is an insidious combination of land shortage, continuous cultivation of maize, declining soil fertility, low yields, deforestation, poverty and high population growth rate.
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    Liberalization, Globalization and Income Distribution

    World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 1999
    Recent mainstream analyses of changes in income distribution over the post World War II period have concluded that income inequality within countries tends to be stable, that there is no strong association between growth and inequality and that, therefore, poverty is best reduced through growth-oriented, rather than distributive, policies.This paper challenges this view.
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    Agriculture and rural development in Tanzania: a survey of the 1980-1995 literature

    Economic and Social Research Foundation, Tanzania, 1995
    The study aimed at reviewing the literature and providing a bibliography on agriculture and rural development in Tanzania.
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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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    Rural livelihood diversity in developing countries: evidence and policy implications

    Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1999
    Examines livelihood diversification as a survival strategy of rural households in developing countries. Although still of central importance, farming on its own is increasingly unable to provide a sufficient means of survival in rural areas.
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    Non-farm rural livelihoods

    Natural Resources Institute, UK, 2000
    Paper suggests that poor rural people seek livelihoods in the non-farm sector: (a) to complement seasonal agricultural incomes; (b) to supplement inadequate (or absent) agricultural incomes; and (c) to take advantage of opportunities arising in the non-farm sector.

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