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  Better Land Husbandry: Re-thinking approaches to land improvement and the conservation of water and soil

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1997

  Soil erosion has conventionally been perceived as the chief cause of land degradation, yet the limited effectiveness and poor uptake of widely promoted physical and biological anti-erosion methods challenges this logic.
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  From Dutch disease to deforestation - a macroeconomic link? A case study from Ecuador

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1997

  In the literature about macroeconomics and deforestation, it is often supposed that strong foreign exchange outflows (e.g. debt service) increase deforestation, as higher poverty augments frontier migration and natural resources are squeezed to generate export revenues. This paper analyses the opposite phenomenon, i.e.
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  Supporting sustainable agriculture through extension in Asia

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1997

  There are widespread concerns about the environmental impact of agricultural technologies and over the long-term sustainability of farming systems in Asia. Although the content of extension programmes includes sustainable technologies, extension approaches and methods in the public sector continue to reflect a technology transfer paradigm.
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  An Assessment of European - aided Watershed Development Projects in India from the Perspective of Poverty Reduction and the poor

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998

  The paper assesses four Watershed Development Projects in India supported by European donors, namely Karnataka Watershed Development Project (Danida), Doon Valley Integrated Watershed Management Project (European Commission), Karnataka Integrated Watershed Management Project (Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau) and Karnataka Watershed Development Project (Overseas Development Administration/Department
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  Business development, social security or patronage? Zambia’s Agricultural Credit Management Programme.

  Centre for Development Studies, Bath University, 1997

  The government that took power in Zambia in 1991 faced the challenge of fulfilling its promise to liberalise the economy while at the same time preventing any further increase in poverty and consolidating its hold on power. Part of its response was the launch, in 1994, of the Agricultural Credit Management Programme (ACMP).
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  India's Position on Climate Change from Rio to Kyoto: A Policy Analysis

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998

  Policy-making analysis of actors, structures, ideas, interests and powers behind the Indian government’s national position on climate change.
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  Employment Creation and Development Strategy

  OECD Development Centre, 1993

  Developing countries will account for almost all the increase in the world's labour force over the next 25 years; most countries, especially in Africa, will experience very rapid labour force growth. Labour-intensive development has been spectacularly successful in some countries and others have begun to emulate them.
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  Towards Sustainable Development in Rural Africa

  OECD Development Centre, 1999

  A growing recognition of the need to delimit the role of the government, to promote the market framework, and to rely on the private sector as the engine of growth, offers the prospect of a new beginning in rural development in Africa.
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  Managing the environment in developing countries

  OECD Development Centre, 1992

  Environmental policy should be inspired by the recognition that the environment is everyone’s business; all social actors must be involved in environmental management. Policies that implicitly subsidize a wasteful and environmentally destructive use of resources are pervasive: reforms should command a high priority on economic as well as environmental grounds.
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  Non-governmental organizations and natural resource management in Africa : a literature review

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1993

  This report presents abstracts of 150 key publications drawn from recent literature (post 1982). The objective is to provide an overview of NGO activities in the field of natural resource management in Africa, and highlight those issues that are of critical importance to enhancing the institutional capacities of these organizations.

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