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    Giving value to natural resources: a new framework for managers

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How best can the value of natural resources be decided? Both market and non-market approaches are currently in use. Yet few assess the relative values of different uses of natural resources.
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    Consensus or conflict? Time for a reality check on community-based sustainable development

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Global consensus emerged in the 1990s that the key to sustainable development is local- level solutions. Such approaches are evident across a wide range of sectors and in the policies of governments, donors and NGOs. All root for shared management of natural resources across the board, based on the assumption that communities are homogenous and consensual. Yet, how real is community- consensus?
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    Read all about it! Getting books to pupils in Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How do pupils in Africa gain access to books? Which methods of getting books to students and teachers work best? Recent research in Ghana, Tanzania, Mali, South Africa, Mozambique and Kenya, examined different approaches to book provision including school or classroom-based libraries, teacher support centres and mobile libraries.
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    For Africa by Africa. Resurrecting African-published journals

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Publishing outlets in Africa have dwindled, university presses have declined and many renowned periodicals and journals have ceased publication. Yet indigenous publication is essential to the emergence of African academic enterprise and ought not be replaced by publication in the west. Little information exists regarding current usage of African published journals in African universities.
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    Read all about it. How relevant are printed materials for farmers in Africa?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    It is often assumed that many grassroots farmers are illiterate and that print is an ineffective means of communication. What little printed information is produced is usually aimed at resource-rich, commercial farmers.
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    Rewriting forest history in West Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Kissidougou in Guinea, West Africa, is characterised by so-called 'forest islands', relics - it was assumed -of original dense forest cover. It was also assumed that local cultivation practice was to blame for the destruction of the trees.
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    Joint action: can clustering build industrial capacity in Africa?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    African development is closely linked to small scale industry. The employment provided by small firms, although low paying, enables families to survive, to educate their children, and in some cases, to move out of poverty.
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    Input credit for smallholder farmers: can the private sector help?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Many governments in sub-Saharan Africa set up systems in the seventies and eighties to supply inputs for crop production on credit to smallholder farmers. Unsustainable, expensive, and based on monopoly control over output marketing by the state, these have been swept away during liberalisation.
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    Empty desks, empty futures: The curse of classroom gender gaps

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    It is almost a decade since the governments of the world, meeting at Jomtien in Thailand, pledged a commitment to achieving basic education for all, with special emphasis on improving access to primary schools and closing the gender gap.
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    Ploughing deeper into poverty. Steps needed to boost rural incomes in Ghana after economic reform

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How do poor farmers in Africa survive the effects of economic reform policies? University of Sussex researchers studied patterns of poverty in north eastern Ghana from 1975 to 1989. They report that policymakers should try harder to understand the complex ways in which rural people make a living so that development policies can curb poverty more effectively.

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