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  Towards Sustainable Development in Rural Africa

  OECD Development Centre, 1999

  A growing recognition of the need to delimit the role of the government, to promote the market framework, and to rely on the private sector as the engine of growth, offers the prospect of a new beginning in rural development in Africa.
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  Managing the environment in developing countries

  OECD Development Centre, 1992

  Environmental policy should be inspired by the recognition that the environment is everyone’s business; all social actors must be involved in environmental management. Policies that implicitly subsidize a wasteful and environmentally destructive use of resources are pervasive: reforms should command a high priority on economic as well as environmental grounds.
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  Non-governmental organizations and natural resource management in Africa : a literature review

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1993

  This report presents abstracts of 150 key publications drawn from recent literature (post 1982). The objective is to provide an overview of NGO activities in the field of natural resource management in Africa, and highlight those issues that are of critical importance to enhancing the institutional capacities of these organizations.
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  Namibia: encouraging sustainable smallholder agriculture

  Environment and Development Consultancy Ltd, 1997

  Report recommends agriculture-sector poliy objective of risk reduction, production stability, and the diversification of agricultural and non-agricultural economic opportunities in the rural areas. The most fundamental problem remains, seven years after independence, the lack of a clear policy, administrative structures and legislation dealing with land allocation, tenure and management.
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  Malawi: Services and policies needed to support sustainable smallholder agriculture

  Environment and Development Consultancy Ltd, 1997

  Malawi’ s smallholder agriculture is facing a crisis, particularly in the more populated south. There is an insidious combination of land shortage, continuous cultivation of maize, declining soil fertility, low yields, deforestation, poverty and high population growth rate.
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  Enhancing rural Livelihoods through Participatory Watershed Development in India

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1998

  India is remarkable not only in the scale of its wastelands, and in the volume of government funds committed to reversing degradation, but especially in the attempt to link environmental improvement and poverty reduction.
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  Field Handbook: Socioeconomic and Gender Analysis Programme, FAO

  Socioeconomic And Gender Analysis Programme, FAO, 1998

  The Field Level Handbookis written for field workers: extensionists, government and non-government field workers, private- and public-sector development consultants, community organisers and leaders of local groups and institutions.Handbook assists these agents who work directly with local communities in the participatory identification of the needs and priorities of local men and women , using th
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  Assessing the potential of forest product activities to contribute to rural incomes in Africa

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1998

  Large numbers of rural households in Africa continue to generate some of their income from forest product activities. However, much of this involvement is in labour intensive low return activities that help to provide the poor with an income safety net, but which decline once better alternatives become available.

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