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  Supporting rural local governments in practice: issues for consideration

  United Nations Capital Development Fund, 1997

  Looks at the limitations of decentralisation and decentralisation support programmes.
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  Wheat policy reform in Egypt: adjustment of local markets and options for future reforms

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2000

  Since 1987, as part of a general shift toward a more market-oriented economy, Egypt’s wheat sector has been partially liberalized, primarily in production and trade.
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  Guidelines for developing improved risk assessment, prevention and management approaches in pastoral areas of Northwestern China

  Sustainable Development Department, FAO SD Dimensions, 2001

  This report presents an analytical framework for assessing the risks pastoral livestock keepers face in Nothwestern China.
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  Fiscal decentralization and governance: a cross-country analysis

  International Monetary Fund, 2001

  Based on cross-country data for up to 78 countries, this paper shows that fiscal decentralization (the assignment of expenditure and revenue mobilisation functions to subnational levels of government) is associated with various indicators of governance, such as corruption, rule of law, and government effectiveness.
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  The institutional dynamics of community-based natural resource management: an entitlements approach

  Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2000

  This article begins by criticising neo-malthusian approaches to community-based resource management (CBNRM), which frames problems in terms of imbalances between social needs and aggregate resource availability. The article urges the need to start from the politics of resource access and control among diverse social actors.
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  From users to custodians: changing relations between people and the state in forest management in Tanzania

  World Bank, 2001

  This paper begins by discussing Tanzania's increasing recognition of the need to bring individuals, local groups, and communities into the policy, planning, and management process if woodlands are to remain productive in the coming decades.The article finds that:central control of forests takes management responsibility away from the communities most dependent on them, inevitably resul
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  Egypt: underage and unprotected : child labor in Egypt's cotton fields

  Human Rights Watch, 2001

  HRW assert that Egyptian children employed by cotton-farming cooperatives work long hours, routinely face beatings at the hands of foremen, and are poorly protected against pesticides and heat. Most of the children are also well below the country's legal minimum age of twelve for seasonal agricultural work, the report charges.
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  Small-scale food processing sector in Zambia

  Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, 2000

  The main objective of this study is to document the operational attributes and support structures of Zambia's small-scale food processing sector. The role of the Agricultural Market Information System (AMIS) is also considered in the context of its strategic value in increasing the productivity of the small-scale agro-processing enterprises.
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  Small-scale food processing sector in South Africa

  Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, 2000

  The study highlights the constraints (such as limited access to credit facilities, poor management practices, and limited access to technology) faced by small-scale food processing enterprises (SFPEs) in South Africa (SA), arising from poor information and communication management.
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  State reforms and the decentralization of the agricultural and rural public sector: lessons from the Latin American experience

  Sustainable Development Department, FAO SD Dimensions, 2001

  Paper asserts that strengthening the institutional capacities of local governments is important for: 1) economic reasons (e.g. productive and allocative efficiency), 2) equity reasons (territorial and social equity); and 3) political reasons (e.g. elected officers' accountability to citizens, citizens' participation in decision- making, and democratisation of decision-making).

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