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  Acacias to the rescue – how acacia trees can tackle food shortages in Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  The population of sub-Saharan Africa is predicted to double to 1.3 billion people by 2025. If agricultural production is not increased, the region will face massive deficits in food supplies. Acacia trees, which inhabit even arid environments, could help to reduce this problem.
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  Bringing equality home: promoting and protecting the inheritance rights of women

  Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions, 2004

  In this report, the COHRE Women and Housing Rights Programme (WHRP) documents the fact that under both statutory and customary law, the overwhelming majority of women in sub-Saharan Africa (regardless of their marital status) cannot own or inherit land, housing and other property in their own right.
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  Searching for policies that work for forests and people

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Deciding how to manage forests is not a simple matter. Policies affecting forests are formed in many different sectors at the same time. Political and economic realities – from pressures for local control to the globalisation of markets – strongly influence how people behave towards forests. If policies are to work for forests and people, they must engage with these realities.
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  Pro-poor initiatives to reduce poverty in southern Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Pro-poor initiatives are a common feature of measures to commercialise natural resources in southern Africa. Several pro-poor models have been set up to reduce the gap between elites and marginalised groups, urban and rural populations and the rich and poor.
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  The politics of service delivery reform

  Development and Change Journal, 2004

  This article, published in Development and Change, identifies the leaders, supporters and resisters of public service reform, drawing principally on research from Ghana, Zimbabwe, India and Sri Lanka. It finds that reform was often constrained by a lack of political commitment and by the interests embedded in existing organisational arrangements.
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  Southern Africa's food and humanitarian crisis of 2001 - 04: causes and lessons

  Agricultural Economics Society, UK, 2005

  This paper outlines the crisis and responses to Southern Africa's food and humanitarian crisis (2001-4), examining both immediate triggers and underlying factors.
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  Community-managed targeting and distribution of food aid: a review of the experience of Save the Children UK in sub-Saharan Africa

  Save the Children Fund, 2004

  This paper compares and evaluates how the Community-Managed Targeting and Distribution (CMTD) has been applied in Tanzania, Zimbabwe and Malawi.The Tanzania programme was designed to protect livelihoods in populations facing recurring adverse seasons; the Malawi programme aimed to prevent nutritional deterioration in what was perceived to be a rapidly worsening food security crisis; and the Zim
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  Assessing the impact of health centre committees on health system performance and health resource allocation

  EQUINET: Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa, 2004

  This Equinet discussion paper explores the relationship between Health Centre Committees (HCCs) in Zimbabwe as a mechanism of participation. Findings show that HCCs are associated with improved health outcomes and have acted on and improved primarily health care standards.
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  I Have A Story To Tell

  2004

  This book documents the life-stories of a group of 32 young Zimbabwean women who were the first to be supported through their education by CAMFED International. They now hold positions of authority in their poverty-stricken rural communities, working to address the problems that are associated with rural poverty, HIV/AIDS and educational exclusion.
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  Addressing seed security in disaster response: linking relief with development

  Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical, Colombia, 2004

  This volume contains eight case studies on seed aid in Africa. The case studies were undertaken to evaluate various forms of emergency seed aid in the field and to couple these with analyses of the broader seed and crop systems.

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