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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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    Coping with uncertainty - Petty producers in postwar Mozambique

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998
    Since the early 1990s, Mozambican society has undergone significant changes. The Peace Accord in 1992 enabled demobilisation of most former soldiers and repatriation of almost two million refugees from the neighbouring countries, and the Government has launched an extensive programme of market-oriented reform and political reconciliation.
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    The impact of HIV/AIDS on farming households in the Monze District of Zambia

    Centre for Development Studies, Bath University, 1997
    This paper focuses on how HIV/AIDS undermines household responsiveness to cope with crises, such as new agricultural policy reforms, HIV/AIDS, years of drought, and death of cattle. It uses a collection of 32 household case-studies. It investigates how caring for a chronically ill family member impinges on household production and alters labour allocation between genders and generations.
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    Business development, social security or patronage? Zambia’s Agricultural Credit Management Programme.

    Centre for Development Studies, Bath University, 1997
    The government that took power in Zambia in 1991 faced the challenge of fulfilling its promise to liberalise the economy while at the same time preventing any further increase in poverty and consolidating its hold on power. Part of its response was the launch, in 1994, of the Agricultural Credit Management Programme (ACMP).
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    Economic and social components of migration in two regions of Southern Province, Zambia

    Centre for Development Studies, Bath University, 1997
    Paper addresses the migration process in the Zambia's Southern Province. Until recently when droughts and cattle diseases have begun to plague the area, Southern Province was known for its ideal farming conditions.
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    Agricultural change under structural adjustment and other shocks in Zambia

    Centre for Development Studies, Bath University, 1997
    The agricultural sectors of many economies in Sub-Saharan Africa have been profoundly affected by policy changes comprising part of the wider process of structural adjustment. Government controls on exchange rates, interest rates, farm inputs and crop output prices have been liberalized.
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    Climatic Uncertainty and Natural Resource Policy: What Should the Role of Government Be?

    Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1998
    Recent concern about the consequences of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) has focused attention on how policy implications are interpreted and acted upon, and the role government has in monitoring and disseminating predictions of weather patterns.
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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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    Indonesia and the 1997-98 El Niño: Fire Problems and Long-Term Solutions

    Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1996
    The 1997-98 El Nino is among the strongest recorded and low rainfall in Indonesia set the conditions for widespread fires. At the same time, it is clearer during this particular El Niño than it has been in the past that many fires are being deliberately set.

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