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    Building resilience in rural communities: toolkit

    Learning for Sustainability, 2008
    How can a sense of community contribute to the resilience of individuals and groups? This toolkit is designed to be used by programme coordinators such as community workers, health professionals, and others working with individuals and groups in the community, including voluntary or commercial groups and community leaders.
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    The rural finance landscape. A practitioner's guide

    Network Learning, 2009
    Rural finance refers to financial services such as savings, lending, insurance and remittance services provided by a variety of actors. These actors can be friends, relatives, shopkeepers, traders, money lenders, traditional savings and lending groups, microfinance programmes or banks.
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    Extreme poverty in Bangladesh: protecting and promoting rural livelihoods

    Overseas Development Institute, 2008
    In spite of recent economic growth, Bangladesh remains a country marked by high poverty. Poverty is particularly high in rural areas where the vast majority of people depend on agriculture. In this context, the government and NGOs are implementing various social protection interventions to provide the poorest households with safety nets. But how effective have these initiatives been?
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    The status of rural poverty in the Near East and North Africa

    International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2007
    Poverty in the Near East and North Africa region (NENA) is mainly a rural phenomenon. Almost half (48%) the area’s population lives in rural areas. This report focuses on key rural poverty issues in 13 diverse countries in the region, without attempting to propose policy or programme actions at national or local levels.
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    Survival of the fittest. Pastoralism and climate change in East Africa

    Oxfam, 2008
    This paper analyses the policies required to enable pastoralist communities to cope with the impact of climate change. 
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    Trade liberalisation, agricultural productivity and poverty in the Mediterranean region

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2008
    This working paper explores the links between trade openness, agricultural productivity, growth and poverty reduction in a panel of Mediterranean countries. The paper believes that international trade can lead to enhanced farming productivity through the diffusion of new technologies. This, in turn, would drive the agricultural growth process.
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    Identification and gap analysis of key biodiversity areas. Targets for comprehensive protected area systems

    International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (World Conservation Union), 2007
    Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) represent discrete sites that are globally vulnerable, irreplaceable, and commonly, the last remaining strongholds for many threatened and geographically concentrated species.
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    The environment and poverty times

    Arendal Maps & Graphics Library, UNEP/GRID, 2008
    The paper features a collection of short articles that focus on the complex links between environment and poverty reduction. The articles discuss how natural resources can contribute to economic growth that also benefits the poor.
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    Determinants and implications of the growing scale of livestock farms in four fast-growing developing countries

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2008
    Livestock are among the few commodities that smallholder farmers widely produce that are growing rapidly in demand, and thus the interest for poverty alleviation is strong.
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    Farming trees, banishing hunger: how an agroforestry programme is helping smallholders in Malawi to grow more food and improve their livelihoods

    World Agroforestry Centre, 2008
    Lack of food security in rural Malawi is directly linked to declining soil fertility, with nitrogen being the main limiting factor. However, protein and vitamin deficiencies due to low milk and fruit production and consumption, and a lack of fuelwood to cook maize and other foods are factors which also present significant problems.

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