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    Land management programme in Tanzania

    Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2000
    Evaluation of LAMP in different contexts:broader change processesdevelopment thinkingcomparative analysis of different conditions of LAMP in the four districts it has been implemented inFindings include: recommending that the programme shifts focus from considering its core as natural resources management to one of support to the empowerment, mobilisation and capaci
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    Marrying farmer cooperation and contract farming for service provision in a liberalising sub-Saharan Africa

    Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1999
    The paper explores ways of improving the performance of cooperation and contract farming, as well as the scope for linkages between them.
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    Policies to promote non-farm rural employment in Latin America

    Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2000
    Reviews a range studies published since 1994 on the developments in rural non-agricultural employment (RNAE) and income (RNAI) in several Latin American countries.It distinguishes between diversification arising from traditional agriculture and that driven by exogenous influences, highlighting the importance of the latter.
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    Issues in agricultural reforms: public investment and land market development

    Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2000
    This paper examines the role of public investment in agriculture and land market development in the context of economic reforms and globalisation.Paper indicates:Agriculture is vital to food security and employment generation and hence to socio-political stabilityIt is necessary to shift public investment to underdeveloped regions, in order to ensure that small and marginal f
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    Agricultural policy in Africa after adjustment

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 2000
    This study looks at agricultural policy in Africa since structural adjustment, with the aim of drawing conclusions about policies for the post-adjustment era.The study suggests that while some of the changes brought about under agricultural structural adjustment go too far, in many other respects they do not go far enough.
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    Fin(d)ing our way on trade and labor standards?

    International Labour Organization, 2001
    With the impasse over whether and how to link labor standards and trade agreements stretching into its eighth year, attention has turned to "monetary assessments," or fines, as alternatives to trade sanctions.Fines have the advantage of adding "teeth" to agreements on labor standards without impeding trade and may be more palatable to developing countries than trade measures.
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    Hirschmanian themes of social learning and change

    World Bank, 2001
    This article positions itself within the context of discussions (inspired by Albert Hirschman) about strategies of unbalanced growth in response to the postwar theories of the “big push,” development planning, and balanced growth.
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    Sugar policy and reform

    World Bank, 2001
    This article discusses the issue of interventions into sugar markets.
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    Agricultural employment crisis in South Africa

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2000
    Paper provides preliminary evidence from a survey of farm workers, as well as from a survey of institutions serving commercial farmers, that indeed the underlying logic that is driving labour shedding and casualisation in South Africa is different from other countries.The findings suggest that farmers' collective decision to shed permanent workers is in large measure being driven by 'non-econom
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    Are wage adjustments an effective mechanism for poverty alleviation?: some simulations for domestic and farm workers

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2000
    The South African Department of Labour's recent call for public submissions and public comment on the issue of minimum wages and conditions of employment for domestic and farm workers has bought these issues to the fore. An analysis of the first of these two issues, namely wages, will place into sharp focus the stringent trade-offs faced by the Department of Labour in this part of the workforce.

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