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  Human resources in agricultural and rural development

  Sustainable Development Department, FAO SD Dimensions, 2001

  Papers on several main developments and issues that either persist or are emerging in the area of human resources for agricultural and rural development.
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  The poor relation: a political economy of the marketing chain for dagaa in Tanzania

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1997

  Dagaa is the collective name in Tanzania for various types of sardine-like fish eaten in a dried form by poor and middle-income groups throughout eastern and southern Africa. This paper is a fieldwork-based case-study of the ‘commodity chain’ for dagaa.
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  Of saviours and punks: the political economy of the Nile perch marketing chain in Tanzania

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1997

  The paper is a fieldwork-based case study of the commodity chain for the Nile Perch fish from Lake Victoria, Tanzania. This fish first began apperaring in significant numbers in the lake in the early 1980s and within a few years a large artisanal fishery developed around it.
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  The Social Impact of Adjustment in Tanzania in the 1980s: Economic Crisis and Household Survival Strategies

  Internet Journal of African Studies, 1996

  Provides a theoretical discussion of the key issues of the social impact and a brief account of the Tanzanian economy and the various dimensions of the economic crisis of the 1980s. Then discusses the social impact of adjustment programmes in Tanzania with regard to health, nutrition, education, pressure on women, and responses to the crisis and adjustment . [author]
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  Peasant Cotton Cultivation and Marketing Behaviour in Tanzania since Liberalisation

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998

  Discusses the debate around structural adjustment and African agriculture, the history of the Tanzanian cotton sector and farming systems in the main cotton growing area of the country before reporting the results of a small survey of cultivators carried out at the end of the 1997/8 seed cotton marketing season.
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  Dollars, dialogue and development: an evaluation of Swedish programme aid

  Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 1999

  Programme aid - that is, import support, debt relief and budget support - has constituted a considerable part of Swedish aid in the 1990's. However, the volumes of programme aid have fallen both in relative and absolute terms during this same period. Few evaluations have assessed how different modalities of programme aid further economic growth and sustainable development.
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  Focusing on women works: research on improving micronutrient status through food-based interventions

  International Center for Research on Women, USA, 1999

  Synthesis of five studies, undertaken in Ethiopia, Kenya, Peru, Tanzania, and Thailand, included intervention trails and measurement of impacts.The results suggest that it is possible to increase the effectiveness of micronutrient interventions (including Vitamin A, iron, iodine) by increasing women’s active participation in problem solving and by increasing their access to such key resources
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  Africans query World Bank, IMF governance mantra

  Bretton Woods Project, 2001

  This article discusses the recent trip of President James Wolfensohn and IMF Managing Director Horst Koehler to Mali and Tanzania to meet 22 African leaders in February. The theme of their visit was discussions concerning good governance.Ironically, the efforts to listen to civil society groups directly were minimal.
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  Seed fairs and the case of Marambo village, Nachingwea District, Tanzania: implications of local informal seed supply and variety

  Agricultural Research and Extension Network, 2000

  Report assessing the indigenous systems of seed flow and variety development (especially seed fairs), and public agricultural development organisation perceptions of it.Outcomes and conclusions:indications of the existence of a dynamic informal culture of seed procurement, testing, and exchange among smallholder farmers in south east Tanzaniafarmers attended the seed fairs, t
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  From users to custodians: changing relations between people and the state in forest management in Tanzania

  World Bank, 2001

  This paper begins by discussing Tanzania's increasing recognition of the need to bring individuals, local groups, and communities into the policy, planning, and management process if woodlands are to remain productive in the coming decades.The article finds that:central control of forests takes management responsibility away from the communities most dependent on them, inevitably resul

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