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  Putting farmers at the centre of the rice seed systems in Bangladesh

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Poor farmers need cheap and easy access to quality seeds to improve their livelihoods. In Bangladesh, rice is a particularly important crop for smallholder farmers. What can be done to increase small farmers’ access to seed?
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  Rice-duck farming: new opportunities for farmers in Bangladesh

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Helping farmers to learn and adopt environmentally friendly cultivation techniques is important for developing sustainable agriculture. Policymakers need to understand how cultivation techniques spread and identify the challenges involved in increasing the scale of these.
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  Family planning in Pakistan: impact of new clinics

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Pakistan has one of the highest levels of unmet need for family planning in the world. Thirty-three percent of women wish to limit or space their births but do not use any contraception. More than 30 years of government and private sector family planning provision appears to have had very little success.
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  Promoting organic farming in Bangladesh

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Bangladesh has some of the most fertile agricultural land in the world. However, the move from subsistence to commercial farming has increased the use of chemical fertilisers and pesticides. Many non-governmental organisations have been supporting and training smallholder farmers in organic farming methods.
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  Village phone replication manual: creating sustainable access to affordable telecommunications for the rural poor

  UN Information and Communication Technologies Task Force, 2005

  This document is a guideline for replicating the Village Phone programme in a new country.
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  Relationships, happiness and well-being: insights from Bangladesh

  ESRC Research Group on Wellbeing in Developing Countries . University of Bath, 2006

  Why are people perceived as being 'happy' when their circumstances would often seem otherwise?
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  Future policy choices for the education sector in Asia

  Asia 2015 Conference: Promoting Growth, Ending Poverty, 2006

  Although considerable progress has been made in recent years towards educational goals in Asia, much remains to be achieved.
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  Indigenous and tribal peoples: an ethnic audit of selected poverty reduction strategy papers

  International Labour Organization, 2005

  Indigenous and tribal peoples represent about 5 per cent of the world's population, but over 15 per cent of the world's poor. The incidence of extreme poverty is higher among them than among other social groups and they generally benefit much less than others from overall declines in poverty.
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  Bridging the divide: lessons and challenges in promoting gender equality

  Department for International Development, UK, 2004

  This report presents the main findings of a Gender Review carried out by DFID Bangladesh (DFIDB), which aimed to develop guidelines to help promote gender equality more effectively.A number of concerns emerged around how best to achieve gender equity, namely:the need to account for diversity and its effect on people's livelihood opportunitieswomen's lack of control over resources as
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  Tracking resource and policy impact: incorporating millennium development goals and indicators and poverty reduction strategy paper monitoring across sectors

  Statistics Norway, 2004

  The main aim of this report is to show how a statistical system for tracking resource and policy impact could be designed and implemented.

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