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Searching with a thematic focus on Agriculture and food, Poverty, Rural poverty

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  Decision tools for rural finance

  International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2004

  This paper provides concrete operational recommendations for acting on the challenges posed in the IFAD Rural Finance Policy and the Strategic Framework for IFAD 2002-2006.
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  Seasonal labour migration in rural Nepal: a preliminary overview

  Overseas Development Institute, 2003

  This paper discussesthe development of rapid appraisal mechanisms through an examination of seasonal labour migration in rural Nepal.
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  Reaching the rural poor: a renewed strategy for rural development

  World Bank, 2003

  The "Reaching the Rural Poor" strategy is a follow-up approach to the World Bank's "From Vision to Action" rural development strategy launched of the 1990s. This new strategy stresses practice, implementation, monitoring, and empowerment of the people it is designed to help.
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  Land tenure and rural development

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2002

  The purpose of this guide is to provide support to those who are assessing and designing appropriate responses to food insecurity and rural development situations. This guide aims to show where and why land tenure is an important issue in food security and sustainable rural livelihoods.
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  Rural-urban linkages in sub-Saharan Africa: contemporary debates and implications for Kenyan urban workers in the 21st century

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2004

  This CMI working paper provides an overview of rural-urban linkages in sub-Saharan Africa outlining the major strands of contemporary academic debates on this issue. There author identifies two interrelated debates for discussion.
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  Tackling gender issues in sustainable land management

  Centre for Development and Environment, Berne, 2002

  This toolkit provides a framework for main-streaming gender in rural development activities.It addresses the lack of conceptual and practical tools in the area of sustainable land management.
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  Rural finance for growth and poverty alleviation in Pakistan

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996

  To promote agricultural --- and hence economic --- growth, Pakistan must make more credit available to agricultural smallholders, the rural non farm sector, and women. Subsidizing interest rates is not the way to help marginal borrowers.
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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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  Land access, off - farm income and capital access in relation to the reduction of rural poverty

  Land Reform, Land Settlement and Cooperatives, 1998

  The current framework of economic growth and development includes a general trend towards the privatization of land rights and a collapse of collective structures in agriculture as well as a move towards reliance on land markets as the means of peasant access to participation in the development process.
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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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