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    The effects of land access on poverty in rural Zimbabwe

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Between 2000 and 2002, the Zimbabwean government implemented a series of ‘fast-track’ land reforms. They transferred 9.3 million hectares of farmland owned by white farmers to state ownership for use by black farmers. This was done to end unequal land ownership between black and white people. But what effect have these reforms had on poverty?
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    From food crisis to fair trade: livelihoods analysis, protection and support in emergencies

    Emergency Nutrition Network, 2006
    This article begins with an overview of livelihoods programming in the context of emergencies; an increasingly popular approach, going beyond a focus on food aid alone. In general there is a lack of written analysis of emergency livelihoods interventions.
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    Support models for CSOs at country level: Zimbabwe country report

    Scanteam, 2007
    The economic situation in Zimbabwe is affecting all walks of life and economic migration is widespread and profound. All of the Nordic donor countries present in Zimbabwe have the same type of strategic framework to civil society support. The six Nordic donors commissioned a review of alternative models of support to civil society within six countries.
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    Support models for CSOs at country level: synthesis report

    Scanteam, 2007
    The six "Nordic" donors - Canada, Finland, Ireland, Norway, Sweden and the UK - commissioned a review of alternative models of support to civil society. This document is the result and aims to review these experiences.
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    What can African governments do about failed ‘globalisation?’

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Globalisation in Africa has failed. Not because, as is traditionally argued, African governments haven’t adopted the right structural adjustment policies (SAPs), or because their effects take time to show. Structural adjustment has failed because the policies have sidestepped the developmental needs of Africa.
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    Western policies are responsible for Africa’s failure to develop

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Development policies are based on a flawed analysis of the history of development by the West. African development strategies need to solve local problems with the existing material and intellectual resources of local people. Africa does not need big social goals but small policies that make everyday life more predictable.Two ideas are central to the concept of development.
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    Transitional justice options in Zimbabwe for 2009

    Institute for Democracy in South Africa, 2008
    2008 in Zimbabwe began with a sense of cautious optimism surrounding the upcoming elections. By the end of year any hopes for a new Zimbabwe were hard to find. State-sponsored violence and civil unrest threw September's power-sharing agreement into disarray.
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    Challenges of maintaining water pumps in Zimbabwe

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    In Zimbabwe, the provision of water and sanitation services was once impressive. Now operating and maintaining hand pumps is a challenge. What has gone wrong? What kind of pump management systems can best enhance the resilience of disaster-affected communities?
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    Women's Education - A Pivotal Cog in Agricultural Production- Implications for Extension in Smallholder Irrigation Production in Zimbabwe

    BRIDGE, 2008
    In Zimbabwe over two million women and men work on smallholder holdings that take part in irrigation schemes which enable them to grow commercial crops with high yields and lucrative cash returns. However, crops from land farmed in this way have yielded below 50 per cent their potential, significantly reducing the income generated for households.
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    Sustainable livelihoods, mobility and access needs

    Eldis Document Store, 2003
    How does transport support or inhibit the livelihoods of the poor? How can the sustainable livelihoods approach help identify the mobility and accessibility needs of the poor? This paper outlines the objectives of a study undertaken for DFID by TRL Limited, UK.

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