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  Food-for-work for poverty reduction and the promotion of sustainable land use: can it work?

  Department of Economics and Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2004

  This paper assesses the potential of Food-For-Work (FFW) programs to reduce poverty and promote sustainable land use in the longer run. The study uses empirical evidence and an applied bio-economic farm household model in northern Ethiopia.The paper concludes that FFW projects have the potential of contributing to long term development in economies characterised by imperfect markets.
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  Building on successes in African agriculture

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004

  Series of briefings from an IFPRI conference held in Pretoria, South Africa, December 1-3, 2003.
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  The water issue between Singapore and Malaysia: no solution in sight?

  Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2003

  Singapore has been dependent on Malaysia for nearly forty percent of its water supply, and water has been a source of dispute between the two countries. This paper examines the water issues between Singapore and Malaysia.The paper describes the water agreements signed in 1961 and 1962.
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  Balancing interests

  Syngenta Foundation, 2003

  This paper examines the overall process of change in the global regulation of plant genetic resources.
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  Improving forage value of degraded pastures in Central America

  Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, 2003

  This brief paper outlines the aim of a collaborative project seeking to achieve a better understanding of the factors that determine forage yield and value of pastures in Central America.The expansion of pastures is Central America has not been accompanied with sustainable management of pastures or the use of more suitable alternatives for the deforested land.The impact of pasture degradatio
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  Water for people, water for life: the United Nations world water development report [executive summary]

  United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2003

  This document presents the key points of the first World Water Development Report, a joint undertaking of twenty-three United Nations (UN) agencies under the guidance of the new World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP). The report explores the state of the world’s water resources, and tries to identify the causes and consequences of the world’s current water crisis.
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  Institutions for international freshwater management

  United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2003

  This report describes selected bi- and multilateral institutions for the management of international river basins, lakes, and aquifers.
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  The Mepanda Unkua Project: a planned regulation of the Zambezi River in Mozambique

  Association for International Water Studies, Norway, 2003

  This report examines the potential social and environmental consequences of the proposed Mepanda Unkua Project, a large scale dam planned on the Zambezi River in the Province of Tete in Mozambique.
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  New stakeholders and the promotion of agro-silvo-pastoral activities in southern Burkina Faso: false start or inexperience?

  Drylands Programme, IIED, 2003

  This paper explores and evaluates the impact of a new form of large-scale agriculture which is becoming an increasing phenomenon in southern Burkina Faso. With severe ecological deterioration and food deficits, small-scale agriculture is usually seen as the key to economic prosperity, social solidarity and sustainable management of local resources.
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  Nepal: breaking new ground: leasehold forestry in Nepal: hills leasehold forestry and forage development project

  Office of Evaluation and Studies, IFAD, 2003

  This document presents the results of an evaluation of an IFAD project aimed at preventing land degradation in Nepal. The project is based on leasehold forestry, an innovative approach introduced by IFAD in the early 1990s. It works by providing forty-year leases to groups of households and giving them user rights over plots of degraded forest land.

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