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Supporting sustainable agriculture through extension in Asia
Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1997There are widespread concerns about the environmental impact of agricultural technologies and over the long-term sustainability of farming systems in Asia. Although the content of extension programmes includes sustainable technologies, extension approaches and methods in the public sector continue to reflect a technology transfer paradigm.Document1995 Food Aid Flows: Special Edition of the Food Aid Monitor
Food Aid Statistics, WFP - Interfais, 1996Information and resources from the World Food Programme.DocumentTraditional African values and their use in implementing Agenda 21
Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor - Indigenous Knowledge WorldWide, 1995This article argues that efforts to achieve the promotion of sustainable development within the framework of Agenda 21 should be based on reexamining and applying indigenous knowledge and techniques, as opposed to the wholesale importation of Westernized methods and ideas. The aim should be to attain the optimum combination of the best practices from traditional and modern knowledge.DocumentAssessment of group-based savings/credit scheme in rural Pakistan
People's Participation, FAO SD Dimensions, 1998This report is the result of a consultancy undertaken between 25.09 and 11.12.97 concerning a detailed study of the savings-credit component of the FAO participatory rural development project "Involvement of the rural poor in development through self-help groups in the rural Punjab" (GCP/PAK/079/NET) implemented by the Faisalabad Agricultural University Pakistan, in collaboration with the AgricultDocumentEmpowering the rural disabled in Asia and the Pacific
People's Participation, FAO SD Dimensions, 1997Asia and Pacific countries have designated 1993-2002 the "Decade for the Disabled" - ten years to raise awareness of the problems of millions of disabled men, women and children. Report is based on papers presented at a recent FAO Round Table on the Integration of Disabled People in Agricultural and Agro-industry Systems, held in Bangkok.DocumentTrade policies and food security in China
Development Economic Research Group, Denmark, 1997Recently, two areas of Chinese influence has drawn attention. One is the future Chinese grain imports and the other is the effect of China joining the WTO. This paper describes both problems and attempts to evaluate them using projections within a Computable General Equilibrium Model.DocumentGender Bias and the “Marriage Squeeze” in China, South Korea and India 1920-1990: The Effects of War, Famine and Fertility Decline
Global Reproductive Health Forum, 1997China, South Korea and Northern India have commonalities in their kinship systems which make for discrimination against female children. Discrimination was heightened by war, famine and fertility decline. During 1920-90, India has had the quietest history, while China experienced the most war and famine, with sharp rises in discrimination.DocumentAn Assessment of European - aided Watershed Development Projects in India from the Perspective of Poverty Reduction and the poor
Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998The paper assesses four Watershed Development Projects in India supported by European donors, namely Karnataka Watershed Development Project (Danida), Doon Valley Integrated Watershed Management Project (European Commission), Karnataka Integrated Watershed Management Project (Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau) and Karnataka Watershed Development Project (Overseas Development Administration/Department