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    Putting process into practice: operationalising participatory extension

    Agricultural Research and Extension Network, 1999
    This paper aims to stimulate discussion on the operationalisation of learning process approaches to community development and rural extension. It attempts to systematise a participatory extension approach into process phases and steps, which allow extension agents to understand the process dynamics, while preventing a blueprint implementation.
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    The use of proprietary biotechnology research inputs at selected Latin American NAROs

    International Service for National Agricultural Research, 2000
    The main purpose of this Briefing Paper is to provide an assessment of the use of proprietary biotechnology inputs in the agricultural research systems of selected Latin American countries: Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, and Mexico.
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    Patch use by cattle in dryland Zimbabwe: farmer knowledge and ecological theory

    Pastoral Development Network, ODI, 1989
    The call for using farmer knowledge in designing appropriate research, development and extension strategies has become common in recent years (eg Richards, 1985).
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    Human resources in agricultural and rural development

    Sustainable Development Department, FAO SD Dimensions, 2001
    Papers on several main developments and issues that either persist or are emerging in the area of human resources for agricultural and rural development.
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    Rural poverty in Ecuador : a qualitative assessment

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
    This report aims to assess what poverty means to marginalized rural families, what kind of survival strategies families use in times of hardship, and what these families believe is needed to alleviate their poverty.
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    Decentralized rural development and enhanced community participation : a casestudy from Northeast Brazil / Johan van Zyl ... [et al.]

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
    The positive experience with the latest rural development intervention in Northeast Brazil suggests that rapid progress can be made if community participation is enhanced and decision making authority is decentralized to lower levels of government and other institutions.In Northeast Brazil, despite sustained efforts to reduce rural poverty and more than $3.2 billion in spending, the rural poor
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    Public choices between lifesaving programs : how important are lives saved?

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
    Do funding priorities for health and safety policies reflect irrational fears the "disaster of the month" rather than address more fundamental problems?
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    Agriculture and the policy environment: Zambia and Zimbabwe: political dreams and policy nightmares

    OECD Development Centre, 1992
    The paper examines the effect of differing policies in the post-independence period on the agricultural and overall economic performance of Zambia and Zimbabwe. It focuses on the interaction between macroeconomic and agricultural policy reforms. It shows that macro and micro reforms need to be closely linked and that both are critical to sectoral performance.
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    Crop biotechnology and sustainability : a case study of Colombia

    OECD Development Centre, 1995
    This study of Colombia describes activity in the agriculture sector against the background of major changes in macro-economic and sectoral policies. It then outlines the institutional arrangements for agricultural research in general, and biotechnology research in particular, in order to highlight the strengths and weaknesses of biotechnology initiatives.
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    Organisational Roles in Farmer Participatory Research and Extension: Lessons from the Last Decade

    Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1998
    Experience over the last decade suggests that participatory approaches to technical change are falling into two broad camps: public sector approaches are generally part of a client orientation strategy and rarely aim to do more than enhance the functions of technology design and delivery. By contrast, NGO approaches generally aim for the empowerment of weaker groups.

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