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FAO Plan of Action for Women in Development
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1999DocumentDecentralising Aid and its Management in Uganda: Lessons for Capacity-building at the Local Level
European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1999DocumentAgriculture and the policy environment: Zambia and Zimbabwe: political dreams and policy nightmares
OECD Development Centre, 1992The paper examines the effect of differing policies in the post-independence period on the agricultural and overall economic performance of Zambia and Zimbabwe. It focuses on the interaction between macroeconomic and agricultural policy reforms. It shows that macro and micro reforms need to be closely linked and that both are critical to sectoral performance.DocumentChild Labour in commercial agriculture in Africa
International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, 1999This paper seeks to review briefly the available evidence on the extent and types of child labour in the commercial agriculture sector in the Africa region. Information and data are included from case-studies carried out on the child labour situation in commercial agriculture in Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, United Republic of Tanzania and Zimbabwe.DocumentTargeting assistance to the poor and food insecure: a literature review
The Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics - Michigan State University, 1995This report is a comprehensive review of the literature and summary of “targeting” programs that deliver food assistance to the poor and food insecure. It provides definitions, ra-tionales for targeting, analysis of benefits and costs (political and administrative) of various targeting mechanisms, and descriptions of targeting methods.DocumentUnited Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa: full text of Convention
Convention to Combat Desertification, 1994Full text of the Convention to Combat Desertification, which was elaborated by the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INCD) and signed in June 1994.Also available from the CCD WWW site in French and EnglishDocumentThe determinants of the national position of Brazil on climate change : empirical reflections
Danish Institute for International Studies, 1997International negotiations on the Framework Convention on Climate Change have been characterized by severe polarization between developed and developing countries. The G77, led by major countries such as Brazil, India, and China, illustrated a remarkable capacity to manifest its importance in the final text of the Convention.DocumentThe poor relation: a political economy of the marketing chain for dagaa in Tanzania
Danish Institute for International Studies, 1997Dagaa is the collective name in Tanzania for various types of sardine-like fish eaten in a dried form by poor and middle-income groups throughout eastern and southern Africa. This paper is a fieldwork-based case-study of the ‘commodity chain’ for dagaa.DocumentOf saviours and punks: the political economy of the Nile perch marketing chain in Tanzania
Danish Institute for International Studies, 1997The paper is a fieldwork-based case study of the commodity chain for the Nile Perch fish from Lake Victoria, Tanzania. This fish first began apperaring in significant numbers in the lake in the early 1980s and within a few years a large artisanal fishery developed around it.DocumentBetter Land Husbandry: Re-thinking approaches to land improvement and the conservation of water and soil
Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1997Soil erosion has conventionally been perceived as the chief cause of land degradation, yet the limited effectiveness and poor uptake of widely promoted physical and biological anti-erosion methods challenges this logic.Pages