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  Impact of sustainable livelihoods approaches on poverty reduction

  Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Document Repository, 2005

  This paper identifies specific examples where applications of the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach (SLA) had succeeded in reducing rural poverty.The study focused on whether the 12 country cases studies (in Bangladesh, Bolivia, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Gambia, Honduras, Indonesia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Yemen, and Zambia) achieved positive changes in indicators of poverty reduction such as increa
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  Establishing farm-based equity-share schemes in KwaZulu-Natal: lessons from USAID's BASIS research programme

  BASIS Collaborative Research Support Program, 2004

  This proceedings issue from a mini conference held in November 2004 presents six papers summarising attempts to establish best practice equity-share schemes on two commercial farms in the province of KwaZulu-Natal.
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  Credit bureaus and the rural microfinance sector: Peru, Guatemala, and Bolivia

  BASIS Collaborative Research Support Program, 2003

  This report investigates the development of the microfinance sector and the penetration of credit reporting systems in Peru, Guatemala, and Bolivia, where they are quite widespread. The three countries are covered individually:Peru: Information sharing and microfinance in Peru.
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  Decision tools for rural finance

  International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2004

  This paper provides concrete operational recommendations for acting on the challenges posed in the IFAD Rural Finance Policy and the Strategic Framework for IFAD 2002-2006.
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  Reaching the rural poor: a renewed strategy for rural development

  World Bank, 2003

  The "Reaching the Rural Poor" strategy is a follow-up approach to the World Bank's "From Vision to Action" rural development strategy launched of the 1990s. This new strategy stresses practice, implementation, monitoring, and empowerment of the people it is designed to help.
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  Land tenure and rural development

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2002

  The purpose of this guide is to provide support to those who are assessing and designing appropriate responses to food insecurity and rural development situations. This guide aims to show where and why land tenure is an important issue in food security and sustainable rural livelihoods.
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  Rural-urban linkages in sub-Saharan Africa: contemporary debates and implications for Kenyan urban workers in the 21st century

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2004

  This CMI working paper provides an overview of rural-urban linkages in sub-Saharan Africa outlining the major strands of contemporary academic debates on this issue. There author identifies two interrelated debates for discussion.

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