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  People and wildlife interactions around Serengeti National Park, Tanzania

  Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, 2003

  This report reviews the results from a survey study in communities adjacent to Serengeti National Park in Tanzania.
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  Re-constructing rights to land: from discourse to entitlement

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2002

  The paper offers two models for looking at land reform as a human rights issues in Namaqualand, South Africa.
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  Farming assets in North Wälo: statistics, maps and impressions from a travel to North Wälo, October 2000

  Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2002

  The report is based on information collected in the aftermath of the 1999 famine. It presents some basic information on North Wälo, as well as relevant impressions from the authors journey. Statistics from the Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Commission show that all of North Wälo is exposed to famine, but the picture varies much from year to year.
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  On the brink of famine: Ch'orisa, Qalu, 2002

  Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2003

  Peasants in the Ch’orisa district of Ethiopia are living under near-famine conditions even in normal years: famine is very much part of their consciousness. In the literature, it has been argued that famine stimulates class formation by providing increased opportunities for catching the poor.
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  Livestock systems: patterns of livestock distribution in North Wälo and selected districts of South Wälo and North Shäwa

  Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2002

  This report uses statistics collected by the Ethiopian Ministry of Agriculture offices on the economics of livestock production. It covers all wärädas of North Wälo, as well as Kuta Bär and Qalu in South Wälo, and Éfrata, T’arma Bär, and Moja & Wädära in North ShäwaThe report is structured by a discussion of the ox argument.
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  HIV/AIDS in Namibia: the impact on the livestock sector

  Sustainable Development Department, FAO SD Dimensions, 2000

  This paper focuses on the specific impact on the Namibian livestock sector, and it suggests strategies for consideration by the sector stakeholders in order to minimize and/or mitigate the negative impacts of HIV/AIDS on livestock. Factors identified include:the quantitative reduction of the household workforce, which occurs when adults fall ill or die, the remaining household members
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  Management, co-management or no management?: major dilemmas in southern African freshwater fisheries

  Fisheries Department, FAO, 2003

  This report synthesizes the findings of ten case studies conducted in medium-sized lakes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe.The synthesis focuses on three features relevant for the management of freshwater fisheries in the South Africa Development Community (SADC) region:How has fishing effort developed in these lakes over the last 50 years? Desp
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  Poverty and environmental degradation in the drylands: an overview of problems

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2003

  This paper seeks to analyse some of the problems of degradation persisting in the dryland regions with particular reference to Sub-Saharan Africa, and describe the processes that aim to tackle them.It identifies the threat to dryland regions as a complex mixture of degrading soils, continuous exposures to frequent droughts and political and economic marginalisation which is putting poor people
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  Sustainable livelihoods of farmers and pastoralists in Eritrea

  Drylands Coordination Group, Norway, 2002

  Proceedings from a workshop organised by DCG Eritrea in the National Confederation of Eritrean Workers Conference Hall, Asmara, November 28 –29, 2002. Papers include:Coping mechanisms and their efficacy in disaster-prone pastoral systems of the greater horn of Africa. By by J. Ndikumana, J. Stuth, R. Kamidi, S. Ossiya, R. Marambii and P.
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  Public attitudes to aid in Norway and Japan

  Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo, Norway, 2002

  Aims to assess and compare public attitudes to aid in Norway and Japan, set against the current international debate on the topic. It argues that public attitudes to aid in Norway and Japan should be thought of as a product of the very different triangular relationship between the state-civil society-business in the two countries.

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