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Poverty Reduction Strategies and the rural productive sectors: insights from Malawi, Nicaragua and Vietnam
Overseas Development Institute, 2005This paper looks at the treatment of rural productive sectors in Poverty Reduction Strategies (PRS) for three countries, focussing particularly on agriculture and to a lesser degree forestry, fisheries and tourism.DocumentMacroeconomic policy choices for growth and poverty reduction: access to land, growth and poverty reduction in Malawi
Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2005Malawi has pursued an agricultural-led development strategy since independence in 1964. This was a dual strategy which promoted estate agriculture for export earnings on the one hand, and smallholder agriculture for food security and subsistence needs.DocumentOrganic agriculture and poverty reduction in Asia: China and India focus
International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2005The primary goal of this report is to enable a better understanding of organic agriculture in Asia, particularly India and China, and to clarify how organics can serve or hinder poor, small farmers and rural communities.DocumentBio-intensive farming system: an alternative approach to address poverty and livelihoods concerns
Eldis Document Store, 2004This article explains the rise of rural impoverishment and marginalisation in Nepal as a function of the effects of globalisation, open market economic policies and inappropriate development policies.DocumentLivelihoods, growth, and links to market towns in 15 Ethiopian villages
International Food Policy Research Institute, 2005Contrary to the popular belief that rural and urban areas are essentially separate entities, this papers examines the important links that exist between the two. Despite the many potential benefits, the importance of local and regional urban centres to rural livelihoods remains largely under-researched.DocumentA statement of Afar development conference
Development Fund, Norway, 2004Afar Pastoralist Development Association (APDA) organized an Afar National development Conference between 15th and 30th December 2004 in Aysaïta in Afar Regional State of Ethiopia.DocumentImpact of sustainable livelihoods approaches on poverty reduction
Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Document Repository, 2005This paper identifies specific examples where applications of the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach (SLA) had succeeded in reducing rural poverty.The study focused on whether the 12 country cases studies (in Bangladesh, Bolivia, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Gambia, Honduras, Indonesia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Yemen, and Zambia) achieved positive changes in indicators of poverty reduction such as increaDocumentThe benefits of rural roads: enhancing income opportunities for the rural poor
Grupo de Analisis para el Desarrollo, Peru, 2002This paper examines the impacts of rehabilitating rural roads on key welfare indicators such as income and consumption. It aims to complement previous studies which have concentrated mainly on reductions in monetary or time costs needed to access product and factor markets or key public social services.DocumentEstablishing farm-based equity-share schemes in KwaZulu-Natal: lessons from USAID's BASIS research programme
BASIS Collaborative Research Support Program, 2004This proceedings issue from a mini conference held in November 2004 presents six papers summarising attempts to establish best practice equity-share schemes on two commercial farms in the province of KwaZulu-Natal.DocumentCredit bureaus and the rural microfinance sector: Peru, Guatemala, and Bolivia
BASIS Collaborative Research Support Program, 2003This report investigates the development of the microfinance sector and the penetration of credit reporting systems in Peru, Guatemala, and Bolivia, where they are quite widespread. The three countries are covered individually:Peru: Information sharing and microfinance in Peru.Pages