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Agriculture in the city: a key to sustainability in Havana, Cuba
International Development Research Centre, 2003This book presents the results of a three year research project on the history and state of urban agriculture in Havana, Cuba. A multidisciplinary team of 15 professionals, coordinated by the authors, assess the long-term potential for including urban agriculture in the local economy of two areas of Havana, as well as in city-wide environmental management programs.DocumentTime for Transparency: Coming clean on oil, mining and gas revenues
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004Across the globe money that should be funding development is being misappropriated by corrupt elites. In Angola a quarter of the state’s annual oil income goes missing. In many resources rich countries, mining and energy companies facilitate off-the-books payments as part of anti-competitive, under-the-table methods of winning business.DocumentCan Food-for-Work Programmes reduce vulnerability?
Department of Economics and Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2003This paper looks at how, when and why Food for Work (FFW) programmes can reduce vulnerability. Is it most effective as short-term insurance, a longer-term rehabilitation and development intervention, or both? The paper argues for the subjecting FFW transfers to an initial geographic targeting based on the three criteria of food and labour market performance and general morbidity status.DocumentSocial capital and connectedness: issues and implications for agriculture, rural development and natural resource management in ACP countries
Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, 2003This paper explores the role of social capital in the management of natural resources.DocumentAfrican water development report
UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2003The African Water Development Report (AWDR) presents status reports prepared by African countries around eleven themes related to water, selected in consonance with the World Water Development Report (WWDR).DocumentNon-farm income, household welfare, and sustainable land management in a less-favoured area in the Ethiopian highlands
Department of Economics and Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2004This study looks at the impact of improved access to non-farm income on household welfare, agricultural production, conservation investments and land degradation in form of soil erosion.The results indicate that access to low-wage off-farm income is restricted by lack of employment opportunities since households otherwise would have engaged in more off-farm wage employment than observed.MainDocumentFood-for-work for poverty reduction and the promotion of sustainable land use: can it work?
Department of Economics and Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2004This paper assesses the potential of Food-For-Work (FFW) programs to reduce poverty and promote sustainable land use in the longer run. The study uses empirical evidence and an applied bio-economic farm household model in northern Ethiopia.The paper concludes that FFW projects have the potential of contributing to long term development in economies characterised by imperfect markets.DocumentPublic policy, food markets, and household coping strategies in Bangladesh: lessons from the 1998 floods
International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003This paper analyses the 1998 floods in Bangladesh, which covered two-thirds of the country and caused severe damage to the major rice crop, from the perspective of food security.DocumentFood security and intellectual property rights in developing countries
International Environmental Law Research Centre, 2003This paper examines the implications of intellectual property rights (IPRs) on food security and the agricultural sector.