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Better Land Husbandry: Re-thinking approaches to land improvement and the conservation of water and soil
Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1997Soil 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.DocumentWater Resource Development in the Drought-prone Uplands
Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1997Improved agriculture in the Drought Prone Uplands (DPUs) depends critically on better water conservation and management. However, there is a high degree of uncertainty surrounding issues of water availability, allocation and local rights. Despite broad similarities in the goals of many programmes, there has been a lack of consistency and coherence among them.DocumentDecentralization and macroeconomic management
International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997There 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.DocumentStrategies for Eliminating Child Labour: prevention, removal and rehabilitation: synthesis paper for International Child Labour Conference (Oslo)
International Labour Organization, 1997DocumentPractical Action to Eliminate Child Labour: background paper for International Child Labour Conference (Oslo)
International Labour Organization, 1997DocumentFrom Dutch disease to deforestation - a macroeconomic link? A case study from Ecuador
Danish Institute for International Studies, 1997In 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.DocumentPeople, Parks and Biodiversity: Issues in Population-Environment Dynamics
American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1995This overview paper broadly addresses the complex relationship between biodiversity, people and protected areas.DocumentManagement Options for Biodiversity Protection and Population
American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1995This 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.DocumentSupporting sustainable agriculture through extension in Asia
Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1997There 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.DocumentResults orientated assistance: a USAID Sourcebook
US Agency for International Development, 1998Online guide the prepartion of reports in the development project cycle. Specifically focused on USAID requirements, but the structure/advice may be of wider relevance."Aims to assist in the design, award, and administration of results-oriented grants and cooperative agreement to implement foreign assistance activities"Pages