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Engendering development
Gendernet, World Bank, 2000Draft Policy Research Report examines the conceptual and empirical links between gender, public policy, and development outcomes and demonstrates the value of applying a gender perspective to the design of development policies.The evidence presented shows that societies that discriminate by gender pay a high price in terms of their ability to develop and to reduce poverty.DocumentRome Declaration on World Food Security and the World Food Summit Plan of Action (FAO)
World Food Summit, FAO, 1999DocumentForests, famine and war: the key to Cambodia's future
Global Witness, 1995Global Witness' first report, which reveals the architects and beneficiaries of Cambodia's timber trade, including the Royal Government of Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge, and which shows that these two groups, who at the time were at war, often work in tandemDocumentPlan of Action for People's Participation in Rural Development, FAO
People's Participation, FAO SD Dimensions, 1999DocumentDecentralization in Chile (Stewart / Ranis / UNDP)
Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 1999DocumentWhat makes a local organisation robust?: evidence from India and Nepal (ODI Natural Resource Perspectives)
Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1999The move towards decentralisation of resource control and management promises more efficient, equitable and sustainable resource use. Debate centres on what type of institutional arrangement in a given context is most appropriate and will lead to the fulfilment of the above ideal. Aspects of these arrangements include property rights structures as well as organisational structures.DocumentFAO Plan of Action for Women in Development
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1999DocumentUnited Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa: full text of Convention
Convention to Combat Desertification, 1994Full text of the Convention to Combat Desertification, which was elaborated by the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INCD) and signed in June 1994.Also available from the CCD WWW site in French and EnglishDocumentThe determinants of the national position of Brazil on climate change : empirical reflections
Danish Institute for International Studies, 1997International negotiations on the Framework Convention on Climate Change have been characterized by severe polarization between developed and developing countries. The G77, led by major countries such as Brazil, India, and China, illustrated a remarkable capacity to manifest its importance in the final text of the Convention.DocumentThe poor relation: a political economy of the marketing chain for dagaa in Tanzania
Danish Institute for International Studies, 1997Dagaa is the collective name in Tanzania for various types of sardine-like fish eaten in a dried form by poor and middle-income groups throughout eastern and southern Africa. This paper is a fieldwork-based case-study of the ‘commodity chain’ for dagaa.Pages