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  Building high-performance knowledge institutions for water management

  International Water Management Institute, 2003

  This briefing argues that many Indian water management institutions are failing to live up to their original promise, failing to deliver high-value thinking, insights or perspectives. It demonstrates that by allowing these institutions to stagnate, there is a risk of a loss of a vitally important tool for research and policy making.
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  Running pure: the importance of forest protected areas to drinking water

  WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2003

  This report presents arguments for the potential role of protected areas in helping to maintain water supply to major cities. It demonstrates that water provides a powerful argument for protection.
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  Water privatisation in Latin America, 2002

  Public Services International Research Unit, PSIRU, 2002

  This report sets out the main developments and current situation in respect of water privatisation and restructuring in Latin America as at June 2002. It assesses the multinationals active in Latin America; issues of public sector water and resistance; the Argentina crisis; conditionality problems; labour issues; and public finance. It presents developments by country in south and central America.
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  Climate change decreases aquatic ecosystem productivity of Lake Tanganyika, Africa

  SciDev.Net, 2003

  This paper presents evidence that climate warming is diminishing productivity in Lake Tanganyika, East Africa.
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  Agriculture technology diffusion and price policy

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002

  This collection of papers are the proceedings from the EDRI/IFPRI 2020 network policy forum on “Agriculture Technology and Price Policy in Ethiopia”.Objectives of the policy forum were to achieve:a better understanding of the theoretical foundation of the relationship between prices and the dissemination of agricultural technology at different stagesawareness of the analytical tools
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  Agriculture policy reform in the ECA transition economies, 1991-2002: an assessment of the World Bank’s approach

  Operations Evaluations Division, World Bank, 2003

  This desk study evaluates the World Bank’s contribution to policy reform in the agriculture sector of the ECA transition economies, covering the period 1991-2002.Findings:ECSSD’s assistance program has grown substantially. The Bank’s lending and administrative spending are twice the mean for all Bank regions.
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  Environmental health in emergencies and disasters: a practical guide

  World Health Organization, 2002

  This book addresses the issue of environmental health problems arising from emergencies and disasters that pose a threat to human health, well-being and survival: shelter, water, sanitation, disease vectors, pollution, etc.
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  Andhra Pradesh: the land is ours

  OpenDemocracy, 2003

  This article argues that, in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, local farmers are under pressure to embrace a future of large-scale monoculture producing crops for the global market.
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  Water supply and sanitation access and use by physically disabled people: a literature review

  Water Engineering and Development Centre, 2002

  This paper addresses the issue of aids to assist physically disabled people and their families living in low-income communities, to maximise their access to and use of the domestic water cycle.
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  Water markets in Mexico: opportunities and constraints

  Environmental Economics Programme, IIED, 1997

  This paper examines the Government of Mexico’s national water law which decentralised water resources management and allowed the market transfer of water-use concessions between individual irrigators. It addresses the opportunities and constraints to improved water resource use and allocation through the market incentives that result from transferable water-use permits.

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