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Plan of Action for People's Participation in Rural Development, FAO
People's Participation, FAO SD Dimensions, 1999DocumentDecentralization in Chile (Stewart / Ranis / UNDP)
Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 1999DocumentWhat makes a local organisation robust?: evidence from India and Nepal (ODI Natural Resource Perspectives)
Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1999The move towards decentralisation of resource control and management promises more efficient, equitable and sustainable resource use. Debate centres on what type of institutional arrangement in a given context is most appropriate and will lead to the fulfilment of the above ideal. Aspects of these arrangements include property rights structures as well as organisational structures.DocumentFAO Plan of Action for Women in Development
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1999DocumentHow prices and macroeconomic policies affect agricultural supply and the environment
Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996There is clearly a link between agricultural incentives and the environment, but quantitative data on such topics as soil quality and land use are inadequate for sound analysis.Mamingi studies the literature on how agricultural prices and macroeconomic policies affect agricultural supply and how that supply affects the environment.DocumentUnited Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa: full text of Convention
Convention to Combat Desertification, 1994Full text of the Convention to Combat Desertification, which was elaborated by the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INCD) and signed in June 1994.Also available from the CCD WWW site in French and EnglishDocumentThe green revolution and the growth of the informal sector in Bangladesh
Danish Institute for International Studies, 1996This paper is the first in a series of papers on a restudy of a village in the Barind tract of northern Bangladesh. At the time of the original study in 1975/76 boro cultivation was negligible, due to lack ofirrigation facilities. There were few job opportunities outside agriculture in the village and in the neighbouring small town.DocumentThe determinants of the national position of Brazil on climate change : empirical reflections
Danish Institute for International Studies, 1997International negotiations on the Framework Convention on Climate Change have been characterized by severe polarization between developed and developing countries. The G77, led by major countries such as Brazil, India, and China, illustrated a remarkable capacity to manifest its importance in the final text of the Convention.DocumentThe poor relation: a political economy of the marketing chain for dagaa in Tanzania
Danish Institute for International Studies, 1997Dagaa is the collective name in Tanzania for various types of sardine-like fish eaten in a dried form by poor and middle-income groups throughout eastern and southern Africa. This paper is a fieldwork-based case-study of the ‘commodity chain’ for dagaa.DocumentBetter Land Husbandry: Re-thinking approaches to land improvement and the conservation of water and soil
Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1997Soil 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.Pages