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  Assessment of rural poverty: Asia and the Pacific

  International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2002

  This report argues that land reform, both tenancy reform and redistribution of ceiling surplus lands to the landless, is important to poverty alleviation.The paper argues that in addition to production benefits, land reform helps to change the local political structure by giving more voice to the poor.
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  Law, property rights, and social exclusion: a capabilities and entitlements approach to legal pluralism

  Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, 2002

  What are the effects of trends away from legal pluralism towards more uniform approaches to the law? This paper analyses the effects of legal changes in property rights for people's welfare and development in India.
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  Devolution as a threat to democratic decision-making in forestry?: findings from three states in India

  Overseas Development Institute, 2003

  This paper looks at two interfacing trends shaping devolution of forest management in India: appropriation of space for forest management by diverse self-initiated community formations; and state-driven devolution where government policies define the scope of local authority in forest management.
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  Assessing the impact of using participatory research and gender/stakeholder analysis

  Participatory Research and Gender Analysis Program, CGIAR, 2000

  Collection of papers from a conference held in 1998 in Quito, Ecuador looking at methods for assessing the impact of using participatory research and gender/stakeholder analysis.Papers are introduced by a conceptual overview, and include:Farmer Participation and Formal-Led Participatory Plant Breeding Programs: Types of Impact to Date by Eva Weltzien R, Louise Sperling, Margaret E Smith
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  Peoples’ social movements: an alternative perspective on forest management in India

  Overseas Development Institute, 2002

  This paper reports on research that aimed to assess and understand the impact of peoples’ social movements in Madhya Pradesh on the forest management space. It analyses the extent of the influence these movements wield on the shaping of policies, plans and programmes which ultimately define the forest management space.
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  Fine grain-Finance: financial choice and strategy among the poor in rural North India

  Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 2002

  This report gives a description of the financial life of residents with a limited basis for cash-crop and off-farm opportunities, hence restricting them to size of landholding as a critical indicator of wealth and status and influences access to cheap bank finance.The authors demonstrates that the use of informal mechanisms like reciprocal gifts, interest-free lending and borrowing and takin
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  Milking the CAP: how Europe's dairy regime is devastating livelihoods in the developing world

  Oxfam, 2002

  EU surpluses of milk and milk products are dumped on world markets using costly export subsidies, which destroy people’s livelihoods in some of the world’s poorest countries.Dairy dumping is a worrying problem because milk producers in developing countries cannot compete effectively with European milk producers who are heavily subsidised by their governments.
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  Benefits and shortcomings of intellectual property rights for small scale farmers in developing countries

  Agricultural Information and Documentation Service for Development Cooperation, 2002

  Rafael Mariano from the Peasant Movement of the Philippines presents his case arguing that intellectual property rights, and more broadly science, have been co-opted by business interests (supported by the US) to strengthen their control over agricultural production and to open up new markets at the expense of small farmers and developing countries.In particular he argues: The 1991 Act
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  Civil society and governance case study of land distribution programme to Kol tribals in Chitrakot district Uttar Pradesh

  Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000

  The Kol tribals of Chitrakoot district live a life of abject poverty, exploitation and almost complete subjugation to the feudal landowners, locally known as Dadus. A local civil society organisation, the Akhil Bhartiya Samaj Sewa Sansthan (ABSSS) has adopted a multi-pronged approach to simultaneously address three sets of issues which it felt were crucial for improving the lot of the Kols.
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  Protest against the acquisition of common grazing land in Kadadara Panchayat, Gujarat

  Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000

  Local governance has become increasingly significant as devolution from central and provincial levels is being attempted in India as a result of the enactment of the 73rd and 74th Amendment of the Constitution in 1993.

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