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    Challenges and lessons in plant variety protection for Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    What are the challenges that African countries face in adopting plant variety protection through intellectual property rights regimes? What lessons can African countries draw from the Indian experience? Africa Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS) research suggests that the introduction of monopoly rights is not appropriate for most sub-Saharan countries.
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    Pumping iron – making prenatal iron supplementation work

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    An estimated 58 per cent of pregnant women in developing countries are anaemic. Health ministries in most poor countries aim to provide iron supplements for pregnant women. So why is maternal anaemia still rife? Studies by the MotherCare Project and partners in eight countries suggest that supply and distribution problems are currently to blame.
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    Playing a part – social integration of children with epilepsy

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Children with epilepsy often find it difficult to integrate socially. Is this related directly to their disability or to society’s view of their condition? Researchers with the Indian non-governmental organisation, SANCHAR, looked at the social activities of children with and without epilepsy in rural West Bengal.
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    The IMF and World Bank: undermining democracy and rolling back the state?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Why are anti-IMF protests sweeping the developing world? Is it privileged students and anarchists who are behind the wave of unrest? Who are taking to the streets and how are their livelihoods being affected by liberalisation? Are Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) merely Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) in another guise?
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    Simply effective - magnesium sulphate reduces the risk of eclampsia in pregnancy

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Pre-eclampsia and eclampsia may kill more than 50 000 pregnant women each year, mostly in developing regions. A study in 33 countries, co-ordinated by the Oxford Institute of Health Sciences, shows that magnesium sulphate reduces the risk of eclampsia and maternal death. Policy-makers should improve the availability of this cheap drug in developing countries, the researchers conclude.
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    Access to environmental justice: Tackling human vulnerability and environmental management

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    What is environmental justice? How can it tackle human vulnerability to environmental degradation? When is environmental justice accessible to the most vulnerable? What role does it play in environmental management?
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    The need for the repoliticisation of policy: understanding agriculture in India

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    The word is much used in development discourse, but what exactly do we understand by ‘policy’? Do economists focus too much on policy implications and ignore the character of the state and the operating costs of policy implications? Is mainstream understanding of the policy process instrumentalist and positivist?
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    Living on the precipice: what future for mountain societies?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    2002 may have been designated International Year of Mountains, but is enough being done to conserve the mountain habitats which are home to 1 in 10 people and contain half the world’s biodiversity? Are mountain residents being consulted as plans are developed to check the threats posed by deforestation, mining, tourism, hydropower, environmental warming, conflict and natural disasters?
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    To protect or promote? Rural reforms in south India

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How have India's economic reforms affected its rural population? What has been the impact of changes in agricultural practice? Are policies that are good for New Delhi good for Tamil Nadu? This report evaluates the consequences of development policies on rural transformation in southern India.
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    Place matters: the challenges of survival in remote rural areas

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Why are the inhabitants of remote rural areas (RRAs) chronically poor? Do we know enough about the effects of risk, exclusion and marginalisation for RRA residents? What is the relationship between remoteness and conflict? Do decentralisation and economic liberalisation offer any prospect of escape from spatial poverty traps?

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