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  Public participation in South Africa as we enter the 21st Century

  Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa, 2003

  Participation by citizens at various levels is essential to make democratic societies work. This chapter from "Governance and Democracy Review" (Muthien, Y. Khosa, M.M.
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  Resisting ethnicity from above: social identities and democracy in South Africa

  Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa, 2003

  Given that ethnicity, language and colour have determined membership of state and society in the recently abolished apartheid system, how can formerly excluded communities be recognised without perpetuating apartheid categorisations? This chapter from Governance and Democracy Review (Muthien, Y. Khosa, M.M.
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  Democratic decentralization of natural resources: institutionalizing popular participation

  World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2002

  Series of case studies exploring the how natural resource decentralizations have taken place and their measurable social and environmental outcomes.
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  Participation and poverty reduction: issues, theory, and new evidence from South Africa

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2001

  This paper examines the relationship between community participation and the efficacy of interventions designed to reduce poverty.It developes some simple analytics that are used to structure a review of the extant literature and motivate the analysis of the impact of participation on the efficacy of public works interventions in South Africa.
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  Short - term stabilization versus long - term price stability : evaluating Namibia's membership of the Common Monetary Area

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1995

  It was found in this paper that (i) because of the high degree of openness of the Namibian economy and its small size, the use of nominal exchange rate as an instrument of adjustment will have limited effects; (ii) that the costs associated with the loss of monetary autonomy are small; and (iii) that there exists a wide range of instruments to address the effects of asymmetric shocks, irrespective
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  Differences between farmers and scientists in the perception of soil erosion: a South African case study

  Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor - Indigenous Knowledge WorldWide, 1998

  Over the years agricultural scientists and extension agents have asked themselves why farmers do not take steps to control soil erosion, especially where such measures would appear to be cost-effective.
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  Peace parks: international aspirations vs. local agendas

  Institute of Environmental Studies, Zimbabwe, 1999

  Policy briefing looking at the tensions between conservationist plans to establish Peace Parks - international wildlife areas linking countries - and the priorities of local people.Within Zimbabwe, some of the problems are:the new areas to be incorporated in Peace Parks are populated rural people are often negative towards wildlife and National Parkslocal communities are strong
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  Zambia: encouraging sustainable smallholder agriculture

  Environment and Development Consultancy Ltd, 1997

  Main purpose of this report is to present a balanced assessment of prospects for sustainable growth in smallholder agriculture in Zambia in the light of recent reforms. Given their historical underdevelopment in Zambia, and policy emphasis on the interface between state and market, the report also focuses particularly on the role of NGOs.
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  South Africa: encouraging sustainable smallholder agriculture

  Environment and Development Consultancy Ltd, 1998

  Concentrates on the black smallholder farming sector. Policy objectives should include:Resource Conserving Technologies: re-orientation away from large scale farmers, consideration of goals other than high input/output (risk management, labour input, gender).

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