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  Agriculture and the policy environment: Zambia and Zimbabwe: political dreams and policy nightmares

  OECD Development Centre, 1992

  The paper examines the effect of differing policies in the post-independence period on the agricultural and overall economic performance of Zambia and Zimbabwe. It focuses on the interaction between macroeconomic and agricultural policy reforms. It shows that macro and micro reforms need to be closely linked and that both are critical to sectoral performance.
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  United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa: full text of Convention

  Convention to Combat Desertification, 1994

  Full text of the Convention to Combat Desertification, which was elaborated by the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INCD) and signed in June 1994.Also available from the CCD WWW site in French and English
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  The determinants of the national position of Brazil on climate change : empirical reflections

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1997

  International negotiations on the Framework Convention on Climate Change have been characterized by severe polarization between developed and developing countries. The G77, led by major countries such as Brazil, India, and China, illustrated a remarkable capacity to manifest its importance in the final text of the Convention.
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  The poor relation: a political economy of the marketing chain for dagaa in Tanzania

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1997

  Dagaa is the collective name in Tanzania for various types of sardine-like fish eaten in a dried form by poor and middle-income groups throughout eastern and southern Africa. This paper is a fieldwork-based case-study of the ‘commodity chain’ for dagaa.
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  Of saviours and punks: the political economy of the Nile perch marketing chain in Tanzania

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1997

  The paper is a fieldwork-based case study of the commodity chain for the Nile Perch fish from Lake Victoria, Tanzania. This fish first began apperaring in significant numbers in the lake in the early 1980s and within a few years a large artisanal fishery developed around it.
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  Better Land Husbandry: Re-thinking approaches to land improvement and the conservation of water and soil

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1997

  Soil 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.
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  From Dutch disease to deforestation - a macroeconomic link? A case study from Ecuador

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1997

  In 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.
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  People, Parks and Biodiversity: Issues in Population-Environment Dynamics

  American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1995

  This overview paper broadly addresses the complex relationship between biodiversity, people and protected areas.
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  Supporting sustainable agriculture through extension in Asia

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1997

  There 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.
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  Rethinking Policy Options for Watershed Management by Local Communities: Combining Equity, Efficiency and Ecological-Economic Viability

  Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions, 1999

  Argues for certain basic re-thinking in the policy options for viable watershed management by combining local knowledge with the formal science through rejuvenated or revitalized traditional institutions. Part one reviews the policy environment in the light of some of the recent reports in India which have a major bearing on watershed development programs.

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