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  Commercialising non-timber forest products: does it help poor people?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Non-timber forest products provide food, building materials and medicines, and are an importance source of income. But many development programmes for rural forest communities fail to make the best use of these products.
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  Making space for citizens: broadening the ‘new democratic spaces’ for citizen participation

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006

  This IDS Policy Briefing explores the new democratic spaces that have opened up for citizen participation in a range of countries, including Angola, Brazil, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Uganda, Mexico, Canada and the United Kingdom.
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  Public subsidies for farmers’ hedging schemes in Mexico are unjustified

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Farmers are increasingly encouraged to manage the risks of crop price instability through a form of insurance called hedging. But few farmers choose to do so. In Mexico, public subsidies have been used to encourage producer participation in a government-backed hedging scheme. But as the benefits go mainly to richer commercial farmers, subsidies may not be justified.
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  Maintaining crop genetic diversity through farmer networks

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Good seed supplies are the basis for successful agriculture. For farmers in poor and remote rural areas, diverse seed stocks are an important resource. Seed diversity makes it possible to breed plants with a range of useful characteristics. Farmer networks play an important role in protecting on-farm crop genetic resources.
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  The future of Fair Trade coffee: dilemmas facing Latin America’s small-scale producers

  Development in Practice, 2006

  This study explores some of the dilemmas facing the Fair Trade movement as it seeks to broaden and deepen its impact among the rural poor of Latin America’s coffee sector.
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  Creating youth-friendly pharmacies

  YouthNet, Family Health International, 2005

  This briefing, produced by Family Health International, examines the role of pharmacies in providing reproductive health information and services to youth, especially contraceptives and referrals to services for sexually transmitted infections. It reports evidence from several countries that youth prefer pharmacies to public services as a source of contraceptives and information.
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  Conditional cash transfers, adult work incentives, and poverty

  World Bank, 2006

  This research paper critically examines the impact of the Conditional Cash Transfer programme in Mexico, PROGRESA.
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  Securing the future for water services

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Over one billion people do not have access to clean drinking water, and 40 percent of the world’s population lack hygienic sanitation. In the next two decades the global supply of water available for each person is expected to fall by a third. Developing countries must take action now to guarantee water security.
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  Getting to the core: a global survey on the cost of registration and election

  United Nations Development Programme, 2006

  This document is a step-by-step guide to election processes around the world. It explains what measures need to be in place, from voter registration to ballot-box security, and at what price, before the first ballot is cast.
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  Non-formal education and basic education reform: a conceptual review

  International Institute for Educational Planning, UNESCO, 2006

  There is growing recognition that non-formal education (NFE) can play an important role in providing basic education for disadvantaged children and young people. However, development agencies and governments face difficult questions about how to manage the relationship between NFE and the formal education system.

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