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    Mulching in Burkina Faso.

    Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor - Indigenous Knowledge WorldWide, 1996
    In the Central Mossi-dominated area of Burkina Faso, most fields have become semi-permanently or permanently cultivated under conditions of increased demographic pressure. At the end of the dry season most crop residues are used as animal feeds, fuel or thatching material.
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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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    Indigenous seed practices for sustainable agriculture

    Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor - Indigenous Knowledge WorldWide, 1994
    A shift to sustainable agriculture (SA) requires fundamental changes to the seed production paradigm. It is important for farmers, particularly those in the Third World, to have control over their seed.
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    Traditional African values and their use in implementing Agenda 21

    Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor - Indigenous Knowledge WorldWide, 1995
    This article argues that efforts to achieve the promotion of sustainable development within the framework of Agenda 21 should be based on reexamining and applying indigenous knowledge and techniques, as opposed to the wholesale importation of Westernized methods and ideas. The aim should be to attain the optimum combination of the best practices from traditional and modern knowledge.
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    Farmers' knowledge and GIS

    Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor - Indigenous Knowledge WorldWide, 1996
    Indigenous knowledge has become an important and a valuable input in the planning and decision making related to the sustainable management of natural resources. This article presents a method of collecting genuine information from indigenous farmers and using a computer system to store important spatial and geographic information.
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    IDA 12: A Chance to Deliver on World Bank Promises

    Oxfam, 1988
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    Assessment of group-based savings/credit scheme in rural Pakistan

    People's Participation, FAO SD Dimensions, 1998
    This report is the result of a consultancy undertaken between 25.09 and 11.12.97 concerning a detailed study of the savings-credit component of the FAO participatory rural development project "Involvement of the rural poor in development through self-help groups in the rural Punjab" (GCP/PAK/079/NET) implemented by the Faisalabad Agricultural University Pakistan, in collaboration with the Agricult
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    Empowering the rural disabled in Asia and the Pacific

    People's Participation, FAO SD Dimensions, 1997
    Asia and Pacific countries have designated 1993-2002 the "Decade for the Disabled" - ten years to raise awareness of the problems of millions of disabled men, women and children. Report is based on papers presented at a recent FAO Round Table on the Integration of Disabled People in Agricultural and Agro-industry Systems, held in Bangkok.
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    Participation in practice: Lessons from the FAO People's Participation Programme

    People's Participation, FAO SD Dimensions, 1997
    Starting in the early '80s, the FAO People's Participation Programme (PPP) used small-scale projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America to develop strategies for organizing grass roots rural people in small, informal, self-reliant groups. This Special has details of lessons learned from the PPP experience.
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    Rethinking Policy Options for Watershed Management by Local Communities: Combining Equity, Efficiency and Ecological-Economic Viability

    Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions, 1999
    Argues for certain basic re-thinking in the policy options for viable watershed management by combining local knowledge with the formal science through rejuvenated or revitalized traditional institutions. Part one reviews the policy environment in the light of some of the recent reports in India which have a major bearing on watershed development programs.

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