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    Andhra Pradesh: the land is ours

    OpenDemocracy, 2003
    This article argues that, in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, local farmers are under pressure to embrace a future of large-scale monoculture producing crops for the global market.
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    Seeds of hope?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    The spread of modern dwarfing varieties of wheat, rice and other cereal crops prompted major improvements in living standards throughout Asia from the 1960s to the present. This Green Revolution has been widely seen as a driving force behind Asia's economic growth and a crucial factor in the 'pro-poor' pattern of that growth over the past 30 years.
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    Rice seed systems in India – what are the institutional requirements?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Formal seed provision capacity in India faces a dilemma familiar to many developing countries. Although private enterprises are active in providing high value seed, particularly hybrids, seed provision strategies for self-pollinated crops such as rice and wheat are less certain. What are the institutional requirements for building seed system capacity?
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    Own goal: TB treatment targets exclude the poor in India

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    India introduced the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) in the mid 1990s, based on the World Health Organisation’s DOTS strategy. Researchers from New Delhi’s Lala Ram Sarup Institute and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine report on operational research at two pilot sites for the programme in New Delhi.
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    Women’s needs for household security and conservation: impossible to reconcile?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Integrated conservation and development projects (ICDPs) are supposed to combine rural development with the conservation of natural resources. Do they work? How does gender shape the ways local people participate in, and benefit from, ICDPs? Are they implemented with regard to social equity issues? How can women’s role in their planning, management and evaluation be enhanced?
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    Fighting motor madness: rethinking urban transport through a poverty lens

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How should planners respond to increased travel demand in the developing world’s burgeoning cities? Can transport policies contribute to poverty reduction? What is the impact of government expenditure on transport infrastructure? What are the health and education outcomes of improvements / deterioration in transport conditions?
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    Left on the back burner: time to put energy onto the urban planning agenda?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Could more efficient use of energy have an impact on poverty alleviation? What changes in energy use patterns are likely to generate the greatest benefits for the poor? What are the constraints on the uptake of energy efficiency measures? Can they be overcome?
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    Fighting disaster: reducing risk in cities

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How can links between disaster mitigation and urban planning be strengthened? Can urban livelihood strategies reduce poor city dwellers’ vulnerability to disaster? Scant attention is currently paid by relief organisations to urban planning and disaster mitigation, according to a recent Care International report.
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    Trouble in the air for food production as urban pollution hits rural development

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Concern over air pollution has traditionally been focused on urban situations.
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    Rights for the world's evicted. Are development projects harming people they're meant to help?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    In the current decade, 10 million people a year have been displaced (forced to move) by development projects intended to improve their lives. The evidence is clear that such displacement, caused by large-scale dam, infrastructure and urban regeneration projects, has had unforeseen and damaging results.

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