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  What Makes Agricultural Intensification Profitable for Mozambican Smallholders?

  Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 1998

  Summarizes an appraisal of input utilization and marketing in Mozambique, focusing on the following research questions: What are current smallholder yields for major commodities, and what is the potential for increasing yields through the use of improved technologies?
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  Incentives for Fertilizer Use in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review of Empirical Evidence on Fertilizer Response and Profitability

  Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 1998

  Why is fertilizer not yet fulfilling its potential as a major stimulus to agricultural productivity in SSA?
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  Biotechnology in Crops: Issues for the developing world

  Oxfam, 1998

  Overview of issues and actors in the debate on genetically modified crops.
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  Participatory Evaluation for Rural Development in Sri Lanka

  Operations Evaluations Division, World Bank, 1997

  Two Bank-supported rural development projects in Sri Lanka have proven the value of community participation in both the planning of a project and in the evaluation of its results, according to an impact evaluation by OED. The two projects, carried out in the 1980s, adopted a top-down, "blueprint" approach and did not involve local beneficiaries in planning and design.
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  Guidelines for Participatory Nutrition Projects

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1995

  Guidelines to help development staff working at community level to promote the design and implementation of participatory nutrition projects.Designed for use by professional staff from different technical and institutional backgrounds, who have had formal technical training or education, and who either work at the community level or are responsible for community development activities.
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  Selling Suicide: farming, false promises and genetic engineering in developing countries

  Christian Aid, 1999

  Experience shows that large gaps between rich and poor, ownership of resources concentrated in too few hands, and a food supply based on too few varieties of crops, are the classic preconditions for hunger and famine. New technologies are taking us further down this ill-advised farm track.
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  Zambia’s Credit Management Services: micro-credit schemes for women entrepreneurs

  Africa Region Findings, World Bank, 1999

  Credit Management Services Limited (CMS) was established in 1992 as a subsidiary of Molver and Company, a Zambian accounting company.
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  Social communication in nutrition: A methodology for intervention

  Food and Nutrition Division, FAO, 1994

  Methodological and practical tool for the promotion and development of nutrition education particularly in developing countries. Aimed at all those involved in planning and implementation of activities of nutrition education and communication.
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  Listening to farmers: Participatory assessment of policy reform in Zambia’s agriculture sector

  Africa Region Findings, World Bank, 1998

  Short summary of case for using participatory evaluation methods
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  Empowerment Evaluation: Collaboration, Action Research, and a Case Example

  Action Evaluation Project, ARIA Group, 1996

  Empowerment evaluation is an innovative approach to evaluation. It has been adopted in higher education, government, inner-city public education, nonprofit corporations, and foundations throughout the United States and abroad.

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