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Biotechnology in Crops: Issues for the developing world
Oxfam, 1998Overview of issues and actors in the debate on genetically modified crops.DocumentReforming Institutions for Service Delivery: A Framework for Development Assistance with an Application to the Health, Nutrition, and Population Portfolio [of the World Bank]
Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999Argues for greater "institutional pluralism" in how the World Bank does business in the infrastructure, rural, and social sectors.DocumentParticipatory Evaluation for Rural Development in Sri Lanka
Operations Evaluations Division, World Bank, 1997Two 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.DocumentGuidelines for Participatory Nutrition Projects
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1995Guidelines 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.DocumentSelling Suicide: farming, false promises and genetic engineering in developing countries
Christian Aid, 1999Experience 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.DocumentUnderstanding the determinants of structural change in world food markets
Global Trade Analysis Project, 1998Uses a modified version of the GTAP model to analyze the relative role of different forces underlying the compositional changes in world agriculture and food trade in the last 15 years. Attempts to isolate the effects of supply and demand factors as well as changes in transportation costs and trade policy.DocumentImproving soil fertility management in Sub-Saharan Africa
Africa Region Findings, World Bank, 1998The way to get farmers to improve soil fertility is to address their constraints systematically and comprehensively, with clear understanding at each step. This can be done only by adapting technology to the farmer’s reality, and by developing the technology in the farmer’s field on the basis of close and continuous consultation. Ownership of the technology is key to adoption [author]DocumentZambia’s Credit Management Services: micro-credit schemes for women entrepreneurs
Africa Region Findings, World Bank, 1999Credit Management Services Limited (CMS) was established in 1992 as a subsidiary of Molver and Company, a Zambian accounting company.DocumentHow rich is China and how fast has the economy grown? : Statistical controversies
National Centre for Development Studies, Australia, 1998Reviews recent major studies on China’s national accounts and growth performance, evaluates alternative estimates of China’s national income and growth rates, and discusses their implications.DocumentPeasant Cotton Cultivation and Marketing Behaviour in Tanzania since Liberalisation
Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998Discusses the debate around structural adjustment and African agriculture, the history of the Tanzanian cotton sector and farming systems in the main cotton growing area of the country before reporting the results of a small survey of cultivators carried out at the end of the 1997/8 seed cotton marketing season.Pages