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  How prices and macroeconomic policies affect agricultural supply and the environment

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996

  There is clearly a link between agricultural incentives and the environment, but quantitative data on such topics as soil quality and land use are inadequate for sound analysis.Mamingi studies the literature on how agricultural prices and macroeconomic policies affect agricultural supply and how that supply affects the environment.
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  Family Planning: A Development Success Story

  Health, Nutrition and Population Division, Human Development Department, World Bank, 1994

  This booklet, which was prepared in collaboration with the Population Reference Bureau, is based on the World Bank publication Effective Family Planning Programs.
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  Investing in People: The World Bank in Action

  Health, Nutrition and Population Division, Human Development Department, World Bank, 1996

  Investing in people — through education, health, nutrition, and other aspects of human development — is crucial in the struggle to raise living standards and reduce poverty in the developing world. Helping countries in this vital work is at the heart of what the World Bank does, through its financial and other assistance.
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  Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development: Challenges for EU Aid

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 1999

  At the 1992 Earth Summit, the governments of the world adopted the Agenda 21 action plan which contained a set of priority actions for achieving ‘sustainable agriculture and rural development’ in both the developed and developing countries. According to Agenda 21, the overriding objective is to “increase production in a sustainable way and enhance food security”.
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  ILO Governing Body Document on Child Labour Committee on Employment and Social Policy (GB.264/ESP/1)

  International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, 1999
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  Child labour: targeting the intolerable

  International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, 1998

  Drawing on ILO action against child labour, including the experience of the ILO's International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC at a glance ) and other initiatives, this report chronicles the exploitation and abuse of working children, surveys international and national law and practice, and points the way toward effective practical action to remove children from debt bondage, p
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  Child Labour in commercial agriculture in Africa

  International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, 1999

  This paper seeks to review briefly the available evidence on the extent and types of child labour in the commercial agriculture sector in the Africa region. Information and data are included from case-studies carried out on the child labour situation in commercial agriculture in Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, United Republic of Tanzania and Zimbabwe.
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  Targeting assistance to the poor and food insecure: a literature review

  The Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics - Michigan State University, 1995

  This report is a comprehensive review of the literature and summary of “targeting” programs that deliver food assistance to the poor and food insecure. It provides definitions, ra-tionales for targeting, analysis of benefits and costs (political and administrative) of various targeting mechanisms, and descriptions of targeting methods.
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  Promoting food security in Rwanda through sustainable agricultural productivity : meeting the challenges of population pressure, land degradation, and poverty / Daniel C. Clay ... [et al.]

  The Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics - Michigan State University, 1996

  The objective of this technical paper is to shed insights on ways of reversing the spiraling decline of the land and the economy in rural Rwanda, with focus on the forces behind productivity decline in the Rwandan agricultural sector.
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  United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa: full text of Convention

  Convention to Combat Desertification, 1994

  Full text of the Convention to Combat Desertification, which was elaborated by the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INCD) and signed in June 1994.Also available from the CCD WWW site in French and English

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