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  Inter-sectoral competition for water allocation in rural South Africa: analysing a case study through a standard environmental economics approach

  Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development, University of Pretoria, 2002

  South Africa’s 1998 National Water Act aimed to promote resource protection, social equity and development, and economic efficiency. However these diverse objectives are liable to contradict one another in the context of water scarcity and competing demands from diverse users.This paper assesses ways of allocating rights to water between different users in terms of these objectives.
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  Poverty reduction strategies and relevant learning in higher agricultural education: case studies from Ethiopia, Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda

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

  This paper analyses agricultural higher education in relation to poverty reduction strategies in four African countries: Ethiopia, Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda.The paper addresses three key issues in the four African countries:how the PRSPs are reflected in official policies, implementation plans and fund allocations to agricultural educationhow case study countries agricultural educ
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  NEPAD's comprehensive African agricultural development program

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2002

  This paper outlines the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) of NEPAD.This paper offers a broad frame of priorities from which more precise strategies and programmes can be derived for operationalisation, including:extending the area under sustainable land management and reliable water control systemsimproving rural infrastructure and trade-related capaciti
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  Agriculture and the Andean Free Trade Agreement: what’s at stake in Colombia?

  Washington Office on Latin America, 2004

  This paper reports on trade negotiations between the United States and the Andean region regarding a new set of bilateral trade agreements known as the Andean Free Trade Agreement.
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  Better technology, better plots or better farmers?: identifying changes in productivity and risk among Malagasy rice farmers

  Poverty, inequality and development research at Cornell University, 2004

  This paper highlights the difficulty in determining the extent to which observed agricultural output gains are due to a new technology itself, rather than to the skill of the farmer or the quality of the plot on which the new technology is tried.This paper introduces a method for attributing productivity and risk changes among new production methods, farmers and plots by controlling for farmer
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  Agricultural research and extension funding levels required to meet the Anti-Hunger programme objectives

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2004

  This paper provides an overview of levels and trends in agricultural research and extension investments.
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  The conflict dimension of environmental degradation and the case of Lesotho

  African Centre for Constructive Resolution of Disputes, 2003

  This article describes the effects of conflict on the environment and environmental management, focussing on Lesotho, a country historically affected by environmental degradation problems such as devegetation, soil erosion, and desertification.
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  Sustaining rural livelihoods in fragile environments: resource endowments or policy interventions?

  Centre For Economic And Social Studies, India, 2004

  It is argued that resource endowments determine the level and dynamics of livelihoods at the household level rather than policy interventions per se. On the other hand, policy interventions, given the status and structure of the economy, only act as catalysts. Policies for strengthening the resource base are necessary but not sufficient to address the livelihood issues.
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  Breaking new ground: livelihood choices, opportunities and tradeoffs for women and girls in rural Bangladesh

  IDL Group, 2004

  This report discusses the type and nature of changes that Bangladeshi rural women and girls perceive as the most important. The report, based on field analysis, finds that women and girls are participating in and in many cases driving changes in rural areas of Bangladesh.The report highlights the fact that significant changes are taking place in rural life throughout Bangladesh.
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  Reaching the rural poor: a renewed strategy for rural development

  World Bank, 2003

  The "Reaching the Rural Poor" strategy is a follow-up approach to the World Bank's "From Vision to Action" rural development strategy launched of the 1990s. This new strategy stresses practice, implementation, monitoring, and empowerment of the people it is designed to help.

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