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Searching with a thematic focus on Livelihoods, Livelihoods Agriculture, Agriculture and food in Nepal

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    Building urban food resilience: assessing the peri-urban food system in Kathmandu Nepal

    Institute For Social And Environmental Transition ISET-Nepal, 2008
    This report from ISET-Nepal describes how agricultural production in urban and peri-urban areas of inland city, Kathmandu, has become unable to meet food security demands due to rapid urban growth and decreased water availability and water pollution. The report describes the physical, environmental and social vulnerabilities of the food system and populations of the Kathmandu valley.
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    Hill Agricultural Research Project (HARP), Nepal: lessons for the policy, institutions and processes dimensions of the Sustainable Livelihoods approach

    Eldis Document Store, 2000
    How does the policy and institutional environment constrain agricultural research? Do competitive research funds improve agricultural extension services?
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    Gender and natural resource management: livelihoods, mobility and interventions

    International Development Research Centre, 2008
    This book examines the gender dimensions of natural resource exploitation and management, with a focus on Asia. It explores the uneasy negotiations between theory, policy, and practice that are often evident within the realm of gender, environment, and natural resource management.
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    Don't call it shangri-la economic programs for displaced populations in Nepal

    Women's Refugee Commission, 2008
    In 1996, an armed Maoist insurgency grew out of the Communist Party of Nepal and resulted in 10 years of conflict, human rights violations perpetrated by both the government and the Maoists, and large-scale
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    Rehabilitating degraded land

    New Agriculturalist, 2008
    Across vast areas of the world, human activity has degraded once fertile and productive land. Deforestation, overgrazing, continuous farming and poor irrigation practices have affected almost 2 billion hectares worldwide, threatening the health and livelihoods of over one billion people.
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    Impact of sustainable livelihoods approaches on poverty reduction

    Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Document Repository, 2005
    This paper identifies specific examples where applications of the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach (SLA) had succeeded in reducing rural poverty.The study focused on whether the 12 country cases studies (in Bangladesh, Bolivia, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Gambia, Honduras, Indonesia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Yemen, and Zambia) achieved positive changes in indicators of poverty reduction such as increa
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    Forests, food security and sustainable livelihoods

    Unasylva, FAO, 2000
    Unasylva issue looking at different perpectives on issues of physical and economic access to food for forest dependent peoples. Articles are structured as a series of case studies from around the world to analyse the linkages between food security and problems such as degradation and deforestation.