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  How pro-poor are land rental markets in Ethiopia?

  Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2016

  Land rental markets can potentially improve the access to land for land-poor households that possess complementary resources that can enable them to utilize land efficiently.
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  Street based self-employment: a poverty trap or a stepping stone for migrant youth in Africa?

  Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2015

  A significant percentage of youth in urban Africa is employed in the informal sector. The informal sector is more accessible than the formal sector for people with low human andfinancial capital, such as youth migrants from rural areas. But the sector is also generally considered to provide a subsistence livelihood.
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  Youth as environmental custodians: a potential tragedy or a sustainable business and livelihood model?

  Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2016

  Youth unemployment and migration is a growing challenge that needs more political attention in many countries in the world, particularly countries with rapid population growth and economic transformation.
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  Investments in sustainable development: a comparative study on how the Nordic development finance institutions work with development impact in context of the Sustainable Development Goals

  Nordic Consulting Group, 2016

  The four Nordic donor countries : Finland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark, all have a long history in the international landscape of development cooperation.
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  Whose waters? Large-scale agricultural development and water grabbing in the Wami-Ruvu River Basin, Tanzania

  Water Alternatives, 2016

  In Tanzania like in other parts of the global South, in the name of 'development' and 'poverty eradication' vast tracts of land have been earmarked by the government to be developed by investors for different commercial agricultural projects, giving rise to the contested land grab phenomenon.
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  Links between tenure security and food security in poor agrarian economies: causal linkages and policy implications

  Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2016

  Population growth leads to growing land scarcity and landlessness in poor agrarian economies. Many of these also face severe climate risks that may increase in the future. Tenure security is important for food security in such countries and at the same time threatened by social instability that further accelerate rural-urban and international migration.
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  Reflections on the formulation and implementation of Integrated Water Resources Management in Southern and Eastern Africa from a gender perspective

  Water Alternatives, 2016

  While it is claimed that the founding principles of integrated water resources management are the Dublin Principles this does not appear to be the case for Principle No. 3, which underlines the importance of women in water provision, management and safeguarding.
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  The 'Trickle Down' of Integrated Water Resources Management: a case study of local-level realities in the Inkomati Water Management Area, South Africa

  Water Alternatives, 2016

  The  historical  legacy  in  South  Africa  of  apartheid  and  the  resulting  discriminatory  policies  and  power imbalances  are  critical  to  understanding  how  water  is  managed  and  allocated,  and how  people  participate  in designated  wa
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  Land, farming and Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM): a case study of the Middle Manyame Sub-Catchment

  Water Alternatives, 2016

  Zimbabwe's water reforms that were undertaken in the 1990s were meant to redress the colonially inherited inequalities to agricultural water, increase water security against frequent droughts, improve water management, and realise sustainable financing of the water sector.
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  The Complex Politics of Water and Power in Zimbabwe: IWRM in the Catchment Councils of Manyame, Mazowe and Sanyati (1993-2001) - file

  Water Alternatives, 2016

  In the mid - nineties Zimbabwe formed participatory institutions known as catchment a nd sub - catchment councils based on river basins to govern and manage its waters. These councils were initially funded by a range of donors anticipating that they could become self - funding over time through the sale of water.

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