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  Eliminating world poverty: making globalisation work for the poor

  DFID White Paper on Eliminating World Poverty: Making Globalisation Work for the Poor, 2000

  While progress has been made over the years in development, many challenges yet remain in order to make globalisation work for the poor.
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  Community-level interventions against HIV/AIDS from a gender perspective

  United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women, 2000

  This paper deliberately avoids dwelling on the epidemiology of HIV/AIDS, its impact on women, families, communities and on development. The author chooses rather to focus on some salient issues pertaining to Community Level Health Interventions Against HIV/AIDS from a Gender Perspective.The paper outlines policy recommendations and potential interventions in the short/medium and long-term.
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  Community based rural development: reducing rural poverty from the ground up

  Rural Development Strategy Team, World Bank, 2001

  This article investigates Community Based Rural Development, which is an approach to reducing rural poverty that promotes collective action by communities and puts them in control of development interventions by making community based organizations (CBOs) driving forces in the process.Conclusions:CBOs directly manage most project resources.
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  Risk management in rural development

  Rural Development Strategy Team, World Bank, 2001

  The task here is to assess the relevance of risk-analysis findings to rural development in impoverished countries around the world.
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  Global farming systems study: challenges and priorities to 2030

  Rural Development Strategy Team, World Bank, 2001

  For more than a decade, the proportion of internationally supported public investment directed at agriculture and the rural sector in developing countries has been declining. Moreover, this is occuring at a time in which the process of globalisation is changing patters of trade and investment, placing agricultural producers and communities under tremendous pressure to adapt in order to survive.
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  AIDS and agriculture in Africa: can agricultural policy make a difference?

  Sustainable Development Department, FAO SD Dimensions, 2000

  Focussing on sub-Saharan Africa, where the HIV/AIDS epidemic has spread rapidly over the past 15 years, this article highlights the effects of the pandemic on farm households and discusses some policy issues arising from it.Effects of HIV/AIDS infection on agriculture:Reduction in area of land under cultivation, as land is often allocated by community authorities to families on the basi
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  Pastoral institutions and approaches to risk management and poverty alleviation in Central Asian countries in transition

  Sustainable Development Department, FAO SD Dimensions, 1999

  Outlines new notion (risk management) of poverty alleviation among pastoralist communites in Central Asia. Pastoralists may either harness the beneficial effects of risk and uncertainty (i.e. fluctuations in commodity price of livestock) or attempt to manage the destructive effects of risk and uncertainty (i.e.
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  Grains of delusion: golden rice seen from the ground

  GRAIN, 2001

  'Golden rice' is a genetically modified rice engineered to contain vitamin A or its precursor, beta-carotene. Monsanto was quick to jump on the humanitarian bandwagon by announcing royalty-free licenses for any of its technologies used to further the development of the rice.
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  Africans query World Bank, IMF governance mantra

  Bretton Woods Project, 2001

  This article discusses the recent trip of President James Wolfensohn and IMF Managing Director Horst Koehler to Mali and Tanzania to meet 22 African leaders in February. The theme of their visit was discussions concerning good governance.Ironically, the efforts to listen to civil society groups directly were minimal.
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  The impact of HIV/AIDS on food security

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2001

  This article begins by emphasising that HIV/AIDS cannot be considered solely as a health problem and sufficient efforts are needed to address its social, economic and institutional consequences. Indeed the report suggests that increasingly, the HIV/AIDS epidemic is having a major impact on nutrition, food security, agricultural production and rural societies in many countries.

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