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  Property rights, collective action and technologies for natural resource management: a conceptual framework

  CGIAR System-wide Program on Property Rights and Collective Action, 1998

  Explores how the institutions of property rights and collective action play a particularly important role in the application of technologies for agricultural and natural resource management.Technologies with long time frames tend to require tenure security to provide sufficient incentives for adoption, while those that operate on a large spatial scale will require collective action to coordinat
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  The environmental and social impacts of economic liberalization on corn production in Mexico

  Oxfam, 2001

  Examines Mexico’s effort to liberalise and “modernise” its agricultural sector, and in particular its domestic production of corn.Conclusions:liberalisation has failed to achieve the environmental and social improvements it promised.
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  Evaluation of EC food aid, food security policy, food aid management and programmes in support of food security

  European Commission Directorate-General for Development, 2000

  This reports on an evaluation of EC food aid, food security policy, and food aid management.Summary of main findings:the Regulation stipulates the policy of the European Commission as far as it concerns its food aid (other than for humanitarian and emergency reasons) and the Food Security Programme. This policy is defined within the international policy environment on food security.
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  Labour standards and social codes of conduct: what do they mean for the forestry industry?

  Natural Resources Institute, UK, 2000

  In recent years labour standards have risen up the policy agenda. Conventions agreed at the International Labour Organisation, some decades ago, have acquired an increased resonance. This paper discusses core labour standards and the statutory and voluntary mechanisms by which they are being implemented.
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  Community based rural development: reducing rural poverty from the ground up

  Rural Development Strategy Team, World Bank, 2001

  This article investigates Community Based Rural Development, which is an approach to reducing rural poverty that promotes collective action by communities and puts them in control of development interventions by making community based organizations (CBOs) driving forces in the process.Conclusions:CBOs directly manage most project resources.
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  Risk management in rural development

  Rural Development Strategy Team, World Bank, 2001

  The task here is to assess the relevance of risk-analysis findings to rural development in impoverished countries around the world.
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  Global farming systems study: challenges and priorities to 2030

  Rural Development Strategy Team, World Bank, 2001

  For more than a decade, the proportion of internationally supported public investment directed at agriculture and the rural sector in developing countries has been declining. Moreover, this is occuring at a time in which the process of globalisation is changing patters of trade and investment, placing agricultural producers and communities under tremendous pressure to adapt in order to survive.
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  Democratic decentralisation

  Center for International Development, Research Triangle Institute (RTI), 1997

  suggests that the strategic objective that democratic decentralization serves is to broaden legitimacy, transparency, and accountability within the political systems of the countries where the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is providing development assistance.Article explores Research Triangle Institute's (RTI) engagement in a task to clarify how and under what circu
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  Forest cleansing: racial oppression in scientific nature conservation

  The Corner House, UK, 1999

  Article looks at a specific case of racial oppression manifesting itself within development programs. At a more general level, the article looks at how ecological project can become politicised.An example of this is South-East Asia, where valley-based states have regularly attempted to sedentarize or repress hill-dwelling ethnic minorities.
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  Kingship, bureaucracy and participation: competing moralities of ‘decentralisation’ in south Indian irrigation

  School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 2000

  This paper attempts a long view of decentralisation in irrigation management in parts of south India. In doing so, it has attempted to place present day ‘Participatory Irrigation Management’ in perspective, particularly by drawing attention to antecedent forms of ‘decentralisation’ and suggesting that some of the practices and moralities involved persist today.

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