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Searching with a thematic focus on Rural development, Agriculture and food, Poverty, Rural poverty

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  Conflict and food security in Nepal: a preliminary analysis

  Rural Reconstruction Nepal, 2003

  This study is a preliminary attempt to develop a more systematic approach to, and investigation of, the impact of the conflict on rural livelihoods with special reference to food security in Nepal. It considers the following concerns about food security in Nepal, especially considering the Maoist insurgency and government response since 2001:
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  Land in Africa: market asset or secure livelihood?

  Human Settlements Programme, 2004

  This document summarises the proceedings from a conference organised by International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) , Natural Resource insitute (NRI) and the Royal African Society in November 2004.The conference brought together a wide range of interest groups including, African policy makers, academics and civil society representatives, as well as representatives of the private
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  Understanding and addressing spatial poverty traps, International workshop

  Overseas Development Institute, 2007

  A workshop on spatial poverty traps was held in Cape town on the 27th March 2007.
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  The Millennium Villages Project: a new approach to ending rural poverty in Africa?

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2006

  The Millennium Villages Project (MVP), an initiative of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, is an attempt at an integrated and bottom-up approach to getting African villages out of the poverty trap. It involves massive injections of capital targeted at, presently, a handful of villages, combining agricultural support with health, infrastructure and education interventions.
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  Millennium Development Goal of halving poverty in Asia and the Pacific region: progress, prospects and priorities

  International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2006

  Extreme poverty in the developing world is overwhelmingly rural. As a result, rural and agricultural development has a vital role to play in achieving the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of halving poverty in Asia and the Pacific.
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  NAV evaluation report - the integrated rural development program 1994 - 2004

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2004

  This paper presents an evaluation of a Nordic Assistance to Vietnam (NAV) programme initiated in 1994 in Thua Thien-Hue province in Central Vietnam.
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  An Phu integrated community development project: final evaluation phase 1: 2000 - 2004

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2005

  This report presents the main findings of the final evaluation of the first phase of the An Phu integrated community development project.
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  Poverty Reduction Strategies and the rural productive sectors: insights from Malawi, Nicaragua and Vietnam

  Overseas Development Institute, 2005

  This paper looks at the treatment of rural productive sectors in Poverty Reduction Strategies (PRS) for three countries, focussing particularly on agriculture and to a lesser degree forestry, fisheries and tourism.
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  Macroeconomic policy choices for growth and poverty reduction: access to land, growth and poverty reduction in Malawi

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2005

  Malawi has pursued an agricultural-led development strategy since independence in 1964. This was a dual strategy which promoted estate agriculture for export earnings on the one hand, and smallholder agriculture for food security and subsistence needs.
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  Livelihoods, growth, and links to market towns in 15 Ethiopian villages

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2005

  Contrary to the popular belief that rural and urban areas are essentially separate entities, this papers examines the important links that exist between the two. Despite the many potential benefits, the importance of local and regional urban centres to rural livelihoods remains largely under-researched.

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