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    The rural finance landscape. A practitioner's guide

    Network Learning, 2009
    Rural finance refers to financial services such as savings, lending, insurance and remittance services provided by a variety of actors. These actors can be friends, relatives, shopkeepers, traders, money lenders, traditional savings and lending groups, microfinance programmes or banks.
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    Promoting agriculture for social protection or social protection for agriculture: strategic policy and research issues

    Future Agricultures Consortium, 2006
    Developing pro-poor policies for agricultural development is important in countries with a large rural poor. In conjunction, there is also need to focus on social protection in order to address the risk and insecurity that the rural poor face. However, current policy fails to sufficiently link agricultural with social protection policies.
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    Gender in agriculture sourcebook

    International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2008
    This extensive resource provides guidance for the development of rural agricultural strategies that effectively promote gender equality and women's empowerment and reduce poverty.   The Sourcebook is the outcome of a collaboration between the World Bank, The Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).
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    Water and the rural poor: interventions for improving livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa

    Land and Water Development Division, FAO, 2008
    Insecure access to water for consumption and productive uses is a major constraint on poverty reduction in rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa. This publication addresses the linkage between water and rural poverty in the region, in order to help decision-makers make informed choices on where and how to invest.
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    Operational guidelines for assessing impacts of agricultural research on livelihoods: Good practices from CIMMYT

    Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo, 2007
    Following a livelihoods approach, this manual responds to the need of the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT) scientists and field partners for guidance on impact assessment (IA).
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    World Development Report 2008: agriculture for development

    World Development Report, World Bank, 2007
    Three out of every four poor people in developing countries live in rural areas, and most of them depend directly or indirectly on agriculture for their livelihoods. This year’s edition of the World Bank's World Development Report (WDR) highlights the importance of agriculture for achieving the Millennium Development Goal of halving extreme poverty and hunger by 2015.
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    Women and food crises: how US food aid policies can better support their struggles

    ActionAid International, 2007
    Women are often at the centre of food crises and are disproportionately affected by hunger, yet their central role in providing solutions is often overlooked. This discussion paper lays out some of the key issues in modern food crises, discusses the role of food aid in addressing them and explores opportunities for engaging women more actively in food aid policy.
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    Bridging knowledge gaps between locals and experts through participatory decision making processes to address climate change impacts

    South South North, 2006
    This Pilang project will develop methodologies to facilitate effective communication between local communities and climate, marine and agricultural experts, to generate information regarding climate change vulnerabilities in the coastal area of Pilang. This information will be used to develop adaptation strategies for the target population. The project aims to: 
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    Land in Africa: market asset or secure livelihood?

    Human Settlements Programme, 2004
    This document summarises the proceedings from a conference organised by International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) , Natural Resource insitute (NRI) and the Royal African Society in November 2004.The conference brought together a wide range of interest groups including, African policy makers, academics and civil society representatives, as well as representatives of the private
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    Sustainable rural livelihoods: a framework for analysis

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005
    This paper outlines a framework for analysing sustainable rural livelihoods. The framework shows how, in different contexts, sustainable livelihoods are achieved through access to a range of livelihood resources, which are combined in the pursuit of different livelihood strategies.

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