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    Targeting assistance to the poor and food insecure: a literature review

    The Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics - Michigan State University, 1995
    This 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.
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    Women's Work and the Household in Latin America. A discussion of the literature

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 1999
    The paper discusses the existing literature on women's work and the household in Latin America. This should be seen in the context of women increasingly entering the labour market in Latin America - as increasing interest among academics for exploring the complexities of the household. One can distinguish between three 'angles' taken by the studies.
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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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    Of saviours and punks: the political economy of the Nile perch marketing chain in Tanzania

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 1997
    The 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.
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    Neglected Species, Livelihoods and Biodiversity in Difficult Areas: How should the Public Sector Respond?

    Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1997
    Recent research on neglected crop and animal species suggests that there exists an important gap between the priorities of development and research agencies and the way small farmers, both in Africa and elsewhere in the world, treat such species.
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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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    Traditional African values and their use in implementing Agenda 21

    Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor - Indigenous Knowledge WorldWide, 1995
    This article argues that efforts to achieve the promotion of sustainable development within the framework of Agenda 21 should be based on reexamining and applying indigenous knowledge and techniques, as opposed to the wholesale importation of Westernized methods and ideas. The aim should be to attain the optimum combination of the best practices from traditional and modern knowledge.
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    Assessment of group-based savings/credit scheme in rural Pakistan

    People's Participation, FAO SD Dimensions, 1998
    This report is the result of a consultancy undertaken between 25.09 and 11.12.97 concerning a detailed study of the savings-credit component of the FAO participatory rural development project "Involvement of the rural poor in development through self-help groups in the rural Punjab" (GCP/PAK/079/NET) implemented by the Faisalabad Agricultural University Pakistan, in collaboration with the Agricult
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    Empowering the rural disabled in Asia and the Pacific

    People's Participation, FAO SD Dimensions, 1997
    Asia and Pacific countries have designated 1993-2002 the "Decade for the Disabled" - ten years to raise awareness of the problems of millions of disabled men, women and children. Report is based on papers presented at a recent FAO Round Table on the Integration of Disabled People in Agricultural and Agro-industry Systems, held in Bangkok.
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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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