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    Partnerships with partner organizations in Ghana

    Water Engineering and Development Centre, 1997
    Conference paper examining the Ghanaian experience of providing water through Partner Organisations (POs) after a central government shift from provider to facilitator.
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    Extension, poverty and vulnerability: the scope for policy reform. Final Report of a study for the Neuchatel Initiative

    Overseas Development Institute, 2002
    This paper reviews pro-poor agricultural extension policies, building on an earlier inception report of the same study. Based on a livelihoods approach, the authors argue that policies towards agriculture, rural development and extension have focused exclusively on increased productivity of land, as opposed to enhancing labour productivity, employment creation and vulnerability reduction.
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    Freshwater trends and projections: focus on Africa

    WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2002
    This report shows that Africa has experienced the largest population rise between 1990 and 2000 of any region but still has the lowest total water supply coverage.
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    Agriculture and HIV/AIDS

    HIV and Development in Asia and the Pacific, UNDP, 2002
    This paper brings together work done by FAO, focussing on identifying the impacts of the HIV epidemic. It argues that the agricultural sector should concentrate on areas in which it has a comparative advantage, as opposed to carrying out health work. It identifies the key points of intervention at the farming level and farm-household system.
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    Assessing the impact of agricultural research on poverty using the sustainable livelihoods framework

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002
    The paper provides an overview of the sustainable livelihoods approach, how it can be applied to agricultural research, and describes detailed methods and results from five case studies: modern rice varieties in Bangladesh polyculture fishponds and vegetable gardens in Bangladesh soil fertility management practices in Kenya hybrid maize in Zimbab
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    Improving community based management of boreholes: a case study from Malawi

    Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2002
    Examines ways in which the rate of hand-pump sustainability may be improved.The main conclusion is that sustainability is more likely through using good quality products, and by assuring reliable management services are provided by the users. The latter should be backed up by a reliable spares supply chain as well as by locally available mechanics trained in advanced repairs.
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    Global Environment Outlook 3 (GEO 3)

    Global Environment Outlook Report and Project, UNEP, 2002
    This high profile and detailed UNEP report is aimed at fulfilling the reporting requirement of Agenda 21.
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    Biodiversity rights legislation

    GRAIN, 2002
    Biodiversity Rights Legislation (BRL) is a collection of emerging laws that directly affect people's control over agricultural biodiversity in developing countries. It compiles those legislative texts that define rights in relation to genetic resources or to the knowledge associated with those materials.
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    Still fixated with privatisation: a critical review of the World Bank's water resources sector strategy

    Public Services International Research Unit, PSIRU, 2002
    This article discusses the World Bank's water strategy. The article is critical of the water strategy.
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    Agriculture negotiations: the issues, and where we are now

    World Trade Organization, 2002
    A "backgrounder" on agriculture negotiations at the WTO updated to cover the end of phase 2 of the ongoing negotiations and future tasks under the Doha mandate.The report gives details of proposals recieved during phases 1 and 2 and the various country groupings and alliances formed during this process. It also contains an issue based analysis of progress made and future objectives.

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