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  Haiti: participation: from words to action: small-scale irrigation schemes rehabilitation project

  Office of Evaluation and Studies, IFAD, 2003

  This document presents the findings of the evaluation of an IFAD seven-year project in Haiti. The project carried out rehabilitation work on the irrigation schemes attached to small plots of land, put in place local structures for management and maintenance and upgraded rural production techniques.
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  Bangladesh: Boosting food security for poor farmers: Netrakona integrated agricultural production and water management project

  Office of Evaluation and Studies, IFAD, 2004

  This document presents the key findings of the evaluation of an integrated agricultural production and water management project implemented by IFAD in Netrakona district, in northern Bangladesh.
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  Overestimating land degradation, underestimating farmers in the Sahel

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2001

  This paper examines the evidence for land degradation in Burkina Faso, and argues that local farming practices are not as unsustainable and environmentally destructive as many reports suggest.Main findings of the study include:there is little evidence of widespread degradation of crop and fallow land in Burkina Faso; the low external input practices used by West African farmers are not
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  Wild resources theme paper (sustainable livelihoods)

  Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2001

  This paper provides background information on access to natural resources in Southern Africa. Case studies are used from Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia and South Africa, to explore customary rights and de facto access to a wide range of wild resources, in particular those of greatest importance to the rural poor.
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  Water theme paper (sustainable livelihoods)

  Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2002

  The key concern of this paper is with the implications of changes in institutions and policy in the water sector for poor communities, households and individuals. Three case studies are used, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Mozambique, to illustrate changes in decentralisation, the involvement of stakeholders in decision making, and the role of the private sector.
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  Agriculture and poverty reduction: unlocking the potential

  Department for International Development, UK, 2003

  This policy paper presents DfID's approach to agriculture in its work.
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  Water and livelihoods: the case of Tsovani irrigation scheme, Sangwe Communal Area, Zimbabwe

  Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2003

  This paper looks at the impacts of handing over the Tsovani irrigation scheme from the parastatal authority ARDA to community management. It examines how this has worked and for whom.
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  The politics of water: a Southern African example

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  This report examines the political contradictions embedded in water reform processes across different levels in Zimbabwe, South Africa and Mozambique. It argues that implementing ideas on water reform often borrowed from extremely different contexts is not an automatic and unproblematic process, but involves complex local political negotiation.
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  Caught in the act: new stakeholders, decentralisation and water management processes in Zimbabwe

  Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2003

  This study focuses on the experience of water resource governance in one main river basin in Zimbabwe, the Save.
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  Tracing policy connections: the politics of knowledge in the Green Revolution and biotechnology eras in India

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  This paper compares policy making in the "Green Revolution" and "biotechnology" eras to explore the dynamic interaction of global and more local knowledge about agriculture, food and rural development.The paper argues that the biotechnology era is unquestionably different from the Green Revolution, in a number of key respects: the nature and complexity of policy narratives associated wi

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