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    Rainwater harvesting: a lifeline for human well-being

    United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2009
    The aim of this report is to compile a synthesis of experiences that can provide insight into the multiple opportunities rainwater harvesting can have when addressing human well-being, while continuing to sustain a range of ecosystem services.
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    Farm ponds for water, fish and livelihoods

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2009
    Aquaculture has been recognized as an important component of rural development, aimed at improving food supply and generating more income for poor farming households. Ponds add value to farming activities: water from ponds can serve domestic and livestock water supplies as well as irrigation for crops.
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    FAO Diversification Booklets

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2009
    What opportunities are there at farm and local community level to increase the incomes of small-scale farmers? This series of booklets aims to raise awareness and provide decision support information about opportunities for increasing the incomes of small-scale farmers.
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    Good practices in participatory mapping: a review prepared for the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)

    International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2009
    Participatory mapping, commonly used in participatory development, plays an important role in helping marginalised groups by making visible the association between land and local communities, highlighting important social, historical and cultural knowledge as well as presenting geographical feature information.
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    Undying promise: agricultural biotechnology’s pro-poor narrative, ten years on

    STEPS Centre, Institute of Development Studies, 2009
    Many people and organisations have sought to promote genetically modified (GM) crops as a ‘pro-poor’ technology; however, developing-country farmers’ experiences with GM crops have been mixed. Some farmers have certainly benefited, but others have not.
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    The rural finance landscape. A practitioner's guide

    Network Learning, 2009
    Rural finance refers to financial services such as savings, lending, insurance and remittance services provided by a variety of actors. These actors can be friends, relatives, shopkeepers, traders, money lenders, traditional savings and lending groups, microfinance programmes or banks.
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    Implications of higher global food prices for poverty in low-income countries

    World Bank, 2009
    Basic food commodities that are traded globally, including wheat, rice, maize, sugar and poultry, are important for small farmers and consumers in the developing world. Higher global food prices are a shock factor which can be directly correlated to increased livelihood vulnerability and poverty. In many poor countries, recent rises in the price of staple foods have created winners and losers.
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    The impact of rising food prices on disparate livelihoods groups in Kenya

    United Nations [UN] World Food Programme, 2008
    The dramatic increase in food prices globally has created challenges for achieving the Millennium Development Goals of reducing poverty and hunger especially in the Kenyan context given a number of factors aggravating the food crisis. This study provides a situation analysis and prognosis of markets and prices in Kenya and the wider region.
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    Agriculture, hunger and food security

    Department for International Development, UK, 2004
    This article considers the linkages between agriculture, hunger and food security. It highlights that hunger and food insecurity remains at unacceptably high levels. To reduce this, it is important to understand how agriculture can most effectively contribute to food security and poverty alleviation. 
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    Recognising and addressing risk and vulnerability constraints to pro-poor agricultural growth

    Department for International Development, UK, 2004
    Risk and vulnerability (R and V) are becoming important in agricultural development due to an increase in the risk of agriculturalists and the social protection and production implications of reducing R and V through sectoral policies and poverty reduction processes. Agricultural development plans, however, rarely consider R and V.

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