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Opportunities for Norwegian support to agricultural development in Malawi
Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2005Following a decision by the government of Norway to increase it's support to the Malawian agricultural sector, this report presents the findings of a study into how Norway can help contribute to the alleviation of poverty.DocumentHuman rights, formalisation and women’s land rights in southern and eastern Africa
Institute of Women's Law, University of Oslo, 2005Land is a vital resource for rural livelihoods. Establishing and clarifying land rights through formalisation has become a key issue in development policies that aim to promote more productive uses of land. This report sets out a human rights-based approach (HRBA) for gender-equal and non-discriminatory land reform.DocumentContribution of rice culture to on-farm management of diversity and knowledge in Nepal
Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2005The paper analyses the ways Nepalese "rice culture" contributes to maintaining crop landraces and knowledge.DocumentExploring ecological and socio-economic issues for the improvement of area enclosure management: a case study from Ethiopia.
Drylands Coordination Group, Norway, 2005Land degradation is a severe problem across sub-Saharan Africa, and Ethiopia is among the most affected countries.DocumentA statement of Afar development conference
Development Fund, Norway, 2004Afar Pastoralist Development Association (APDA) organized an Afar National development Conference between 15th and 30th December 2004 in Aysaïta in Afar Regional State of Ethiopia.DocumentA promising practice: integrated plant nutrient management in Mali
Drylands Coordination Group, Norway, 2005This paper reports on the participatory integrated plant nutrient management (IPNM) project undertaken in Mali. The objective of the project was to increase food security through improving soil fertility management.DocumentUnderstanding the issues: what's the matter with trade?
Norwegian Church Aid, 2005This is a set of papers that address the questions: do equal rules really allow poor producers to receive a fair share of the trade wealth and does the current free trade system represent equal rules at all?DocumentIndigenous rangeland resources and conflict management by the North Afar pastoral groups in Ethiopia
Drylands Coordination Group, Norway, 2004This case study, conducted in north Afar pastoral settlements in Ethiopia, explores pastoral natural resource management as well as indigenous conflict management.Main findings of the study include:the pattern of natural resource management has shown dramatic changes in 4-5 decades time, eroding traditional strategies of pastoral resource management; and this is caused mainly by the encDocumentAn evaluation of the impacts of economic reform on performance of agriculture in Ethiopia
Department of Economics and Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2005In an effort to boost agricultural productivity the Ethiopian government has embarked on implementing policy reforms since 1991. This paper uses the stochastic frontier production function to examine technical, allocative and economic efficiency in crop production using farm level data from 1993/94 and 2000/01 production years in post-reform Ethiopia.DocumentOff-farm employment, factor market development and input use in farm production: a case study of a remote village in Jiangxi Province, China
Department of Economics and Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2005The objective of this paper is to analyse the impact of off-farm employment on village factor market development, and estimate the effects of off-farm employment on input use in farm production (especially inputs related to the change of land production capacity).The paper identifes four household groups which at group level show large differences in terms of household size, number of labourersPages