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  Participatory communication: a key to rural learning systems

  Sustainable Development Department, FAO SD Dimensions, 2003

  Access to knowledge and information is a vital component in enabling the poor to participate fully in social change. This paper is an attempt to focus on some issues in the vast field of communication and education for development.
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  Land tenure reform and gender equality

  United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2005

  This brief explores the reform of land tenure institutions which re-emerged in the 1990s, and asks if these reforms are any more gender sensitive than those of the past?The paper highlights that a focus of the recent reforms has been on land titling, designed to promote security of tenure and stimulate land markets.
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  Norwegian support to Bunda College of Agriculture: phase II

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2005

  Malawi’s Bunda College of Agriculture has received funding from the Government of Norway since early 1999, essentially for institution-building purposes.
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  Natural resource management in the Didinga hills: a baseline study from Budi county, South Sudan

  Drylands Coordination Group, Norway, 2005

  Environmental degradation arising from the depletion of forest biodiversity and the resulting problems of soil erosion, water shortage, climate change and poverty, have become issues of global concern.
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  Understanding rural poverty and investment in agriculture: an assessment of integrated quantitative and qualitative research in Western Kenya

  Q-Squared: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches in Poverty Analysis, 2005

  This article attempts to analyse how and when to combine quantitative and qualitative research methods to improve understanding of how to identify the poor, the nature of poverty, its causes, and its consequences for agricultural practices.
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  The impact of HIV/AIDS on agriculture and strategies for coping with less labour

  Development Fund, Norway, 2005

  This briefing note, based on studies done by UNAIDS and the UN Food and Agriculture organisation (FAO), looks at how HIV and AIDS impacts on agriculture, and contains recommendations for how to cope with the epidemic.The note states that increasingly, HIV and AIDS is having a major impact on nutrition, food security, agricultural production and rural societies throughout the affected countries.
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  Agricultural insurance revisited: new developments and perspectives in Latin America and the Caribbean

  Sustainable Development Department, Inter-American Development Bank, 2005

  This paper focuses on agricultural production risk management, explaining key concepts, understanding why crop insurance markets have been slow to develop, and making recommendations about how to build sustainable markets in developing country contexts, with information drawn from Latin America and the Caribbean.
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  Agriculture and poverty in South Africa: can agriculture reduce poverty?

  Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development, University of Pretoria, 2004

  Poverty and income inequality persist in South Africa despite efforts to eliminate them. Poverty is more pervasive in rural areas, particularly in the former homelands: the majority (65 percent) of the poor are found in rural areas and 78 percent of those likely to be chronically poor are also in rural areas.
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  Impact of trade liberalization and related reforms on India’s agricultural sector, rural food security, income and poverty

  Global Development Network, 2004

  How have reforms affected agricultural output in India?
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  Food security, agricultural efficiency and regional integration

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2004

  Food security remains a major concern among the APEC member economies and achieving this goal means making food available at prices that all households can afford. With the rise of globalisation, the availability and affordability of food are common concerns for APEC countries, thus it is important for them to explore ways to promote cooperation on these issues.

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