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  Understanding, measuring and utilizing social capital: clarifying concepts and presenting a field application from India

  CGIAR System-wide Program on Property Rights and Collective Action, 2003

  This paper develops a locally relevant scale of social capital to assess whether and how it mattered for development performance in 69 north Indian villages.
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  ICTs: transforming agricultural extension?

  Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, 2003

  This document reports on a workshop held by CTA on Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for ACP agricultural and rural development.
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  Significance of rural non farm sector in enterprise development

  Eldis Document Store, 2001

  This paper argues that the Indian government could be more actively involved in creating the necessary environment for effective public-private partnerships.
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  Mangroves: local livelihoods vs. corporate profits

  World Rainforest Movement, 2003

  This book gathers a selection of articles published in the monthly electronic bulletin of the World Rainforest Movement (WRM), addressing the issue of the processes leading to the destruction of mangrove forests and the struggles developed at the local and global levels to protect and use these forests in a socially equitable and environmentally adequate manner.The articles give an overview of
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  Pro-poor irrigation management transfer?

  International Water Management Institute, 2003

  This briefing argues that Irrigation Management Transfer (IMT) can contribute to rural poverty by aggravating existing inequities within irrigation schemes or introducing new ones.
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  Building high-performance knowledge institutions for water management

  International Water Management Institute, 2003

  This briefing argues that many Indian water management institutions are failing to live up to their original promise, failing to deliver high-value thinking, insights or perspectives. It demonstrates that by allowing these institutions to stagnate, there is a risk of a loss of a vitally important tool for research and policy making.
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  Andhra Pradesh: the land is ours

  OpenDemocracy, 2003

  This article argues that, in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, local farmers are under pressure to embrace a future of large-scale monoculture producing crops for the global market.
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  Trouble in the air for food production as urban pollution hits rural development

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Concern over air pollution has traditionally been focused on urban situations.
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  Facing up to the storm: how local communities can cope with disaster: lessons from Orissa and Gujarat

  Christian Aid, 2003

  This disaster management book identifies how people, even in the poorest parts of the developing world, can survive disasters if they are involved in all aspects of managing disasters from response to prevention.
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  Tackling gender issues in sustainable land management

  Centre for Development and Environment, Berne, 2002

  This toolkit provides a framework for main-streaming gender in rural development activities.It addresses the lack of conceptual and practical tools in the area of sustainable land management.

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