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From users to custodians: changing relations between people and the state in forest management in Tanzania
World Bank, 2001This paper begins by discussing Tanzania's increasing recognition of the need to bring individuals, local groups, and communities into the policy, planning, and management process if woodlands are to remain productive in the coming decades.The article finds that:central control of forests takes management responsibility away from the communities most dependent on them, inevitably resulDocumentStructural adjustment and the institutional dimensions of agricultural research and development in Brazil: soybeans, wheat and sugar cane
OECD Development Centre, 1992Structural adjustment, liberalisation and the pressures of technological change are having major impact on the institutional organisation of the agro-industrial sector. In industrialised countries, the private sector is positioned to play the vanguard role in the next generation of agricultural technologies.DocumentTowards Sustainable Development in Rural Africa
OECD Development Centre, 1999A 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.DocumentManaging the environment in developing countries
OECD Development Centre, 1992Environmental 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.DocumentBiotechnology and sustainable crop production in Zimbabwe
OECD Development Centre, 1995This case study of Zimbabwe has examined developments in biotechnology against the background of a well-developed national agricultural research, plant breeding and seeds system.DocumentStructural adjustment and Moroccan agriculture: an assessment of the reforms in the sugar and cereal sectors
OECD Development Centre, 1992This paper reviews the process of agricultural policy reforms in Morocco in the 1980's, with particular emphasis on the cereals and sugar sub-sectors.DocumentConsiderations of wildlife resources and land use in Chad
Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1997Planning and education are needed on options for numbers of animals. land use in Chad to ensure that development considers the proper use, maintenance, and enhancement of its remaining natural resources, and especially the needs of fish and wildlife populations and their habitats. Chadians traditionally have harvested wildlife and their very rich fisheries to supplement their diets.DocumentCash crop and foodgrain productivity in Senegal : historical view, new survey, evidence, and policy implications
Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1996This research report provides an in-depth understanding of many aspects of Senegalese agricultural policy, its historical impact, and more recent farmer responses to government attempts to recent farmer responses to government attempts to stimulate growth in the agricultural sector.DocumentImproving the measurement and analysis of African agricultural productivity : promoting complementarities between micro and macro data
Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1996Report identifies numerous situations where poor data lead to incorrect estimates of African land and labor productivity. The report argues that better coordination of macro, meso, and micro data collection, reporting, and analysis efforts can lower costs and improve our ability to monitor trends and to quantify determinants of agricultural productivity.Pages