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    Organisational Roles in Farmer Participatory Research and Extension: Lessons from the Last Decade

    Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1998
    Experience over the last decade suggests that participatory approaches to technical change are falling into two broad camps: public sector approaches are generally part of a client orientation strategy and rarely aim to do more than enhance the functions of technology design and delivery. By contrast, NGO approaches generally aim for the empowerment of weaker groups.
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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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    Commercial Financing of Seasonal Input Use by Smallholders in Liberalised Agricultural Marketing Systems

    Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1998
    Paper reviews recent experience in providing seasonal credit, arguing that economic liberalisation leaves many questions unanswered, especially given the reluctance of commercial banks to provide this service, and weak private trading sectors in many countries.
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    Biopiracy, TRIPS and the Patenting of Asia's Rice Bowl: A collective NGO situationer on IPRs on rice

    GRAIN, 1998
    Nearly all Asian countries are committed to the WTO TRIPs treaty. This means that by the year 2000, Asian governments have to make intellectual property titles on seeds completely legal. This will favor transnational corporations who want to control agriculture and the world's food system through genetic engineering.
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    Determinants of adoption and levels of demand for fertiliser for cereal growing farmers in Ethiopia

    Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1996
    The current government of Ethiopia has put agriculture at the heart of its policies. There is particular emphasis on promoting adoption of fertiliser, improved seeds and the efficiency of input marketing and distribution. In this paper we use a nationally representative data set for 1994 to analyse what factors influence adoption of as well as intensity of fertiliser use of small-scale farmers.
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    Child labor and schooling in Ghana

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
    To improve human capital and reduce the incidence of child labor in Ghana, the country's school systems should reduce families' schooling costs, adapt to the constraints on schooling in rural areas (where most children must work at least part-time), and provide better education (more relevant to the needs of the labor market).
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    Smallholder Cash-Cropping, Food-Cropping Food Security in Mozambique's Cotton Belt

    Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 1997
    As Mozambique recovers from war and undergoes economic reform, given its favorable agroecological endowment and its highly rural population, improved agricultural performance is essential to three government policy objectives: 1) smallholder income growth; 2) improved rural food security; and 3) reducing the balance of payment deficit.
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    Encouraging Sustainable Smallholder Agriculture in Southern Africa in the Context of Agricultural Services Reform

    Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1998
    Summarises the results of six DFID funded country studies on encouraging sustainable agriculture in South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi. It emphasises the need for continuing government and donor support for sustainable increases in agricultural productivity which must underpin poverty alleviation.
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    What Makes Agricultural Intensification Profitable for Mozambican Smallholders?

    Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 1998
    Summarizes an appraisal of input utilization and marketing in Mozambique, focusing on the following research questions: What are current smallholder yields for major commodities, and what is the potential for increasing yields through the use of improved technologies?
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    Incentives for Fertilizer Use in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review of Empirical Evidence on Fertilizer Response and Profitability

    Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 1998
    Why is fertilizer not yet fulfilling its potential as a major stimulus to agricultural productivity in SSA?

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