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    Banking for the future: savings, security and seeds: a short study of community seed banks in Bangladesh, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Honduras, India, Nepal, Thailand, Zambia and Zimbabwe

    Development Fund, Norway, 2011
    The aim of seed banks is to increase food security and contribute to the continued utilisation of locally important genetic diversity. This paper is sought to document the experiences of community seed banks (CSBs) in a number of developing countries. The paper concludes that: 
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    Exploring the politics of land reforms in Malawi: a case study of the Community Based Rural Land Development Programme (CBRLDP)

    Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2008
    Land remains the most significant productive asset for the majority of Malawians, yet it is far from being equitably distributed.
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    Richer or Poorer?: id21 insights, issue 36

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2001
    Ethical trade as an approach to supply chain management has mushroomed in recent years. Northern companies are becoming increasingly concerned with the ‘ethics’ of their operations and the risks to reputation and productivity posed by bad employment practices in global supply chains. But can voluntary private sector codes really improve employment conditions in supply chains?
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    Debating GM crops: id21 insights, issue 52

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    The debate over genetically-modified (GM) crops is one of the most controversial and fiercely contested of recent times. While media coverage often focuses on disagreements between the United States and Europe, perhaps the main battleground today is the developing world. It is here that large markets are
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    New directions for water governance: id21 insights, issue 67

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Water governance is a significant feature of international development policymaking. There is an increasing consensus on the need for improved water governance to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. This edition of id21 insights presents research that moves beyond the principles of good governance to improve our understanding of how governance works in practice.  
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    The use of participatory processes in wide-scale dissemination of micro dosing and conservation agriculture in Zimbabwe

    AgEcon Search, 2010
    Participatory technology development has been used for quite some time, but little is known about how farmers perceive participatory methods and processes. This paper argues that understanding farmers’ concerns about the participatory process can further the ultimate aim of encouraging sustained technology adoption.
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    Gender HIV and the Church

    Tearfund, 2009
    The case study outlines the programme in Burkina Faso and Zimbabwe over the last 3 years in working through the local church to challenge and change culturally and Biblically based attitudes on gender and sexual rights in the context of HIV and AIDS. The local organisations took a relationship based approach to gender in engaging the local church communities.
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    Gender and media progress study: Southern Africa

    Gender Links, Johannesburg, 2010
    This report monitors the relation between gender issues and media content in 14 Southern African countries, providing quantitative, sex-disaggregated data on media coverage and topics. In addition, it examines the underlying gender dynamics within the institutional structures of the media. The key findings of the paper are as follows:
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    Comprehensive Responses to Gender Based Violence in Low-Resource Settings: Lessons Learned from Implementation

    Population Council, Zambia, 2010
    Over the past decade, many African countries have begun to recognise the importance of preventing gender based violence and responding to the needs of survivors. But due to the absence of strong, regionally-relevant evidence, national programs have tended to adopt strategies that have worked in Europe and North America.
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    Is intimate partner violence associated with HIV among women in Zimbabwe?

    Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2010
    Intimate partner violence (IPV) is now recognised as a significant public health problem, particularly for the claimed association with the sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV. This study investigates the association between IPV and HIV status among Zimbabwean women. The document highlights the following conclusions: 

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