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  Using local seed systems for agricultural disaster recovery

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  In areas affected by disasters such as drought and war, recovering agricultural activity quickly is vital to household food security. Relief seed aid, which replaces seeds lost during disasters, is important to ensure that farmers have adequate quantities of quality seeds of the right variety for the planting season following a disaster.
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  Integrated Pest Management or pesticides: which is best for African farmers?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Pesticide use in Africa is the lowest in the world, accounting for only two percent of world sales. However, development agencies, governments and commodity chains continue to provide large amounts of free or subsidised pesticides, often giving them to untrained and illiterate farmers. This results in unsafe pesticide use and threats to human health.
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  Sugar industries in least developed countries: profiting from ‘Everything but Arms’

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Guaranteed high prices are increasing sugar production in many of the world’s least developed countries. The possibility of duty and quota free access to European markets in 2009 is attracting foreign investment. Proactive governments are now needed to maximise the opportunities that the ‘Everything but Arms’ (EBA) initiative brings.
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  Can leprosy be eliminated by a single global campaign?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  In 1991 the World Health Assembly set a target to eliminate leprosy by the year 2000. The disease, which still caries a stigma, damages the skin and nerve endings and leads to ulcers and disability. A major World Health Organisation campaign has provided antibiotics to treat the disease in a number of countries. However a number of new cases have appeared in previously low priority countries.
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  Cut out the waste says WaterAid report

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  The Decade for Water in the 1980s failed to secure water and sanitation for all. Today the performance of the water sector remains grossly inadequate: more than a billion people have no access to safe water and 2.6 billion have inadequate sanitation. This failure undermines development, and denies people a basic human right.
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  Unofficial cross-border trade benefits poor people in east Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  In many African states cross-border trading is a major economic activity. ‘Unofficial’ cross-border trading in east Africa often represents the only type of exchange as poor infrastructure limits official trade between neighbouring states.
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  Migrants lack information on UK banks’ remittance services

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Money sent by migrants to their families is the second largest financial flow to the developing world, after foreign direct investment. However, there is little information on remittance products and services available to migrants.  A new project ‘Sending Money Home?’ based in the UK, aims to fill this gap and make money transfers easier for those on a low income.
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  Making cash count: lessons from cash transfer schemes in east and southern Africa for supporting the most vulnerable children and households

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005

  This study reviews unconditional cash transfers in 15 countries of east and southern Africa. It examines four programmes in more depth, in Ethiopia, Lesotho, Mozambique and Zambia, with an emphasis on design issues such as cost-effectiveness, accuracy of targeting, delivery modalities, institutionalisation and potential for scaling up.
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  Filling the gaps: introducing substitute health workers in Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Massive shortages in trained health care professionals in sub-Saharan Africa have led to an examination of substitute health workers as an immediate response to the workforce crisis.For many countries these substitute health workers (SHWs) are not new. They already play various minor roles in health services, especially in rural and deprived areas.
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  Support for growth-oriented women entrepreneurs in Ethiopia

  International Labour Organization, 2005

  This report indicates the next steps that are appropriate for the The African Development Bank (AfDB) and International Labour Organisation (ILO) in supporting growth-oriented women entrepreneurs.

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