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Strategies for Eliminating Child Labour: prevention, removal and rehabilitation: synthesis paper for International Child Labour Conference (Oslo)
International Labour Organization, 1997DocumentPractical Action to Eliminate Child Labour: background paper for International Child Labour Conference (Oslo)
International Labour Organization, 1997DocumentFrom Dutch disease to deforestation - a macroeconomic link? A case study from Ecuador
Danish Institute for International Studies, 1997In the literature about macroeconomics and deforestation, it is often supposed that strong foreign exchange outflows (e.g. debt service) increase deforestation, as higher poverty augments frontier migration and natural resources are squeezed to generate export revenues. This paper analyses the opposite phenomenon, i.e.DocumentMortality by cause for eight regions of the world: Global Burden of Disease Study
The Lancet, 1997Reliable information on causes of death is essential to the development of national and international health policies for prevention and control of disease and injury. Medically certified information is available for less than 30 percent of the estimated 50.5 million deaths that occur each year worldwide. This paper, from The Lancet, reports on the five-year Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD).DocumentNeglected Species, Livelihoods and Biodiversity in Difficult Areas: How should the Public Sector Respond?
Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1997Recent research on neglected crop and animal species suggests that there exists an important gap between the priorities of development and research agencies and the way small farmers, both in Africa and elsewhere in the world, treat such species.DocumentDecentralization, Local Governance and The Democratic Transition in Southern Africa: A Comparative Analysis
African Studies Quarterly, 1997This paper reports the results of a 1995-1996 comparative analysis of local government in the context of current political reforms in South Africa, Botswana, and Swaziland in an effort to arrive at the preconditions for efficient and effective local institutions of collective choice and of service delivery.DocumentThe Mossi indigenous soil classification in Burkina Faso
Stockholm Environment Institute, 1993A growing number of field studies has focussed on the importance and usefulness of indigenous soil taxonomies as they relate to agricultural production. Drawing upon a dissertation on indigenous soil taxonomies and conservation, this article describes the Mossi indigenous soil classification system.DocumentFarmers' knowledge and GIS
Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor - Indigenous Knowledge WorldWide, 1996Indigenous 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.DocumentAssessment of group-based savings/credit scheme in rural Pakistan
People's Participation, FAO SD Dimensions, 1998This 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 AgricultPages