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  Joint forest planning and management in the eastern plains of Karnataka: a rapid assessment

  Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Environment and Development, Bangalore, 2005

  Joint Forest Management (JFM) has become the key concept through which forest generation activities are being implemented in most parts of India.
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  A green revolution in Africa: hope for hungry farmers?

  Canadian Foodgrains Bank, Winnepeg, 2006

  This paper explores the underlying definitions and assumptions present in the current search for new approaches to African agriculture, looking specifically at strategies for improving soil fertility.It advocates a farmer-centred approach that involves active participation of all relevant stakeholders, with the view that sustainable agricultural livelihoods need to be built from a foundation th
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  The local politics of land and water: case studies from the Mekong Delta

  Groupe de recherche et d'échanges technologiques, 2005

  This document takes a historical view of the relations between individual and collective actors in local water management in the Mekong Delta in southern Vietnam.
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  Prioritising farmers' extension needs in a publicly-funded contract system of extension: a case study from Mukono district, Uganda

  Overseas Development Institute, 2005

  How competent will Uganda’s new privatised extension system be? This paper reports on a case study conducted in Mukono District to assess the effectiveness of the "private service provider advisory system" in motivating farmer participation and control of the extension agenda.
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  Community integrated pest management in Indonesia: institutionalising participation and people centred approaches

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2003

  This report assesses the extent to which community integrated pest management (IPM) has been institutionalised in Java, Indonesia, by examining three areas of change, namely:policy reforms at national and local levelssocial and environmental impacts of community IPM in a variety of local settingsorganisational changes within government bureaucracies, FAO and other support agencies.
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  Better technology, better plots or better farmers?: identifying changes in productivity and risk among Malagasy rice farmers

  Poverty, inequality and development research at Cornell University, 2004

  This paper highlights the difficulty in determining the extent to which observed agricultural output gains are due to a new technology itself, rather than to the skill of the farmer or the quality of the plot on which the new technology is tried.This paper introduces a method for attributing productivity and risk changes among new production methods, farmers and plots by controlling for farmer
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  Breaking new ground: livelihood choices, opportunities and tradeoffs for women and girls in rural Bangladesh

  IDL Group, 2004

  This report discusses the type and nature of changes that Bangladeshi rural women and girls perceive as the most important. The report, based on field analysis, finds that women and girls are participating in and in many cases driving changes in rural areas of Bangladesh.The report highlights the fact that significant changes are taking place in rural life throughout Bangladesh.
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  Reaching the rural poor: a renewed strategy for rural development

  World Bank, 2003

  The "Reaching the Rural Poor" strategy is a follow-up approach to the World Bank's "From Vision to Action" rural development strategy launched of the 1990s. This new strategy stresses practice, implementation, monitoring, and empowerment of the people it is designed to help.
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  Haiti: participation: from words to action: small-scale irrigation schemes rehabilitation project

  Office of Evaluation and Studies, IFAD, 2003

  This document presents the findings of the evaluation of an IFAD seven-year project in Haiti. The project carried out rehabilitation work on the irrigation schemes attached to small plots of land, put in place local structures for management and maintenance and upgraded rural production techniques.
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  Bangladesh: Boosting food security for poor farmers: Netrakona integrated agricultural production and water management project

  Office of Evaluation and Studies, IFAD, 2004

  This document presents the key findings of the evaluation of an integrated agricultural production and water management project implemented by IFAD in Netrakona district, in northern Bangladesh.

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