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    Ethiopia: the path to self-resiliency

    CHF, 2007
    This report is the result of a research effort managed and coordinated by CHF on behalf of the 15-member Canadian NGO Network in Ethiopia (CANGO) to assess the factors that contribute to the vulnerability and resilience of communities and households in rural Ethiopia.
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    SARD and rural enterprises

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2007
    The authors here explore how the rural populace can improve their livelihoods by participating in the market economy – in a way that is equitable, sustainable and secures decent work. The report details the pressing need for rural enterprise:
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    Making agriculture work for the poor

    Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2007
    This paper looks at the links between poverty, agriculture and land, reporting on panel data analysis in five countries – Vietnam, Uganda, India, Nicaragua and Ethiopia. It suggests that three ‘pillars’ can help to make agriculture work for the rural poor – infrastructure, education and information. Policy conclusions are:
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    Securing household income among small-scale farmers in Kakamega District: possibilities and limitations of diversification

    GIGA Deutsches Orient-Institut / GIGA German Institute for Middle East Studies, 2007
    This paper examines the argument presented in the sustainable rural livelihoods literature that diversification can increase incomes and food security. The case of small-scale farmers in Kakamega District, Kenya is applied. Using this approach, the paper concludes that:
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    World Development Report 2008: agriculture for development

    World Development Report, World Bank, 2007
    Three out of every four poor people in developing countries live in rural areas, and most of them depend directly or indirectly on agriculture for their livelihoods. This year’s edition of the World Bank's World Development Report (WDR) highlights the importance of agriculture for achieving the Millennium Development Goal of halving extreme poverty and hunger by 2015.
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    Linking social protection and the productive sectors

    Overseas Development Institute, 2007
    Agricultural growth can be socially protecting, but is also vulnerable to shocks and stresses, particularly for small farmers and farm workers. This paper sets out current practice and future prospects in respect of how social protection and agriculture relate to each other.
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    Rural employment and migration: in search of decent work

    Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2007
    A further 106 million will have joined the rural labour force in the developing world between 2005 and 2015, but what work will they find, and where? This paper argues that new thinking on rural employment is needed to create more and better rural jobs.
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    Poverty in Sri-Lanka: issues and options

    Department of Census & Statistics, Sri Lanka, 2007
    This paper discusses the methodology that is being used by the Department of Census and Statistics (DCS) in computing Official Poverty Line (OPL).. It also gives the definitions of various measures used in measuring poverty for researchers, planners and policy makers who maintain an interest in the poverty situation in Sri-Lanka.
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    The decline in public spending to agriculture: does it matter?

    Oxford Policy Management, 2007
    Public spending on agriculture is now recognised to be an important means of promoting economic growth and alleviating poverty in rural areas. However, this paper reveals that agricultural spending is not being prioritised within current budgets and, in many cases, is actually falling.
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    Rural Reconstruction Nepal

    Rural Reconstruction Nepal's (RRN) strategic objective is to empower people through:

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