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    The poor relation: a political economy of the marketing chain for dagaa in Tanzania

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 1997
    Dagaa 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.
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    Better Land Husbandry: Re-thinking approaches to land improvement and the conservation of water and soil

    Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1997
    Soil 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.
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    Decentralization and macroeconomic management

    International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
    There is a vast and growing body of literature covering the potential efficiency and welfare gains from decentralization. The literature has also amply discussed the potential trade-offs between decentralization and income redistribution, as well as various mechanisms designed to attenuate these trade-offs.
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    From Dutch disease to deforestation - a macroeconomic link? A case study from Ecuador

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 1997
    In the literature about macroeconomics and deforestation, it is often supposed that strong foreign exchange outflows (e.g. debt service) increase deforestation, as higher poverty augments frontier migration and natural resources are squeezed to generate export revenues. This paper analyses the opposite phenomenon, i.e.
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    Management Options for Biodiversity Protection and Population

    American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1995
    This overview paper stresses what most of the authors believe: that in order to successfully manage biodiversity, local residents and resource users must be involved, and the people who are affected by conservation projects must be partners in the projects, otherwise they will not succeed.
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    Supporting sustainable agriculture through extension in Asia

    Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1997
    There are widespread concerns about the environmental impact of agricultural technologies and over the long-term sustainability of farming systems in Asia. Although the content of extension programmes includes sustainable technologies, extension approaches and methods in the public sector continue to reflect a technology transfer paradigm.
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    IDA 12: A Chance to Deliver on World Bank Promises

    Oxfam, 1988
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    Participation in practice: Lessons from the FAO People's Participation Programme

    People's Participation, FAO SD Dimensions, 1997
    Starting in the early '80s, the FAO People's Participation Programme (PPP) used small-scale projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America to develop strategies for organizing grass roots rural people in small, informal, self-reliant groups. This Special has details of lessons learned from the PPP experience.
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    Compensating local communities for conserving biodiversity: how much, who will, how and when

    Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions, 1999
    Large number of local communities across the world have shared unhesitatingly their knowledge about local biodiversity and its different uses with outsiders including researchers, corporations, gene collectors and of course, activists. Many continue to share despite knowing that by withholding this knowledge they could receive pecuniary advantage.
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    An Assessment of European - aided Watershed Development Projects in India from the Perspective of Poverty Reduction and the poor

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998
    The paper assesses four Watershed Development Projects in India supported by European donors, namely Karnataka Watershed Development Project (Danida), Doon Valley Integrated Watershed Management Project (European Commission), Karnataka Integrated Watershed Management Project (Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau) and Karnataka Watershed Development Project (Overseas Development Administration/Department

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