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Rising food prices: Cause for concern
July 2008
Steve Wiggins and Stephanie Levy
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Accra 2008: The bumpy road to aid effectiveness in agriculture
April 2008
Lídia Cabral
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Agricultural advisory services and the market
April 2008
Ian Christoplos
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Community forestry in the Amazon: The unsolved challenge of forests and the poor
April 2008
Benno Pokorny and James Johnson
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Making agriculture work for the poor
October 2007
Martin Prowse and Admos Chimhowu
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Community-Based Worker Systems – a possible solution to more services, reaching many communities, and within budget
October 2007
CBW partners in South Africa, Lesotho, Uganda and Kenya
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Climate change, agricultural policy and poverty reduction - how much do we know?
September 2007
Rachel Slater, Leo Peskett, Eva Ludi and David Brown
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Where the land is greener – experiences contributing to sustainable land management
September 2007
Gudrun Schwilch, Daniel Danano, Sudibya Kanti Khisa, William Critchley, Hanspeter Liniger
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Biofuels, Agriculture and Poverty Reduction
June 2007
Leo Peskett, Rachel Slater, Chris Stevens and Annie Dufey
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Food security in Southern Africa
June 2007
Steve Wiggins and Nick Maunders
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Rural Recovery in Fragile States: Agricultural support in countries emerging from conflict
February 2007
Catherine Longley, Ian Christopolos, Tom Slaymaker and Silvestro Meseka
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The business side of sustainable forest management: Small and medium forest enterprise development for poverty reduction
December 2006
Jason Donovan, Dietmar Stoian, Duncan Macqueen and Sophie Grouwels
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How can the rural poor participate in global economic processes?
December 2006
John Farrington and Jonathan Mitchell
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Is low external input technology contributing to sustainable agricultural development?
November 2006
Robert Tripp
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The Millennium Villages Project – a new approach to ending rural poverty in Africa?
August 2006
Lídia Cabral, John Farrington and Eva Ludi
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Poverty Reduction Strategies and the Rural Productive Sectors: What have we learnt, what else do we need to ask?
May 2006
Lidia Cabral
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Walking tightropes: Supporting farmer organisations for market access
November 2005
Ephraim Chirwa, Andrew Dorward, Richard Kachule, Ian Kumwenda, Jonathan Kydd, Nigel Poole, Colin Poulton, Michael Stockbridge
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Responding to HIV/AIDS in agriculture and related activities
March 2005
Rachel Slater and Steve Wiggins
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Cash transfers – Mere 'Gadaffi Syndrome', or serious potential for rural rehabilitation and development?
March 2005
Paul Harvey, Rachel Slater and John Farrington
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Conflict in the Great Lakes region - how is it linked with land and migration?
March 2005
Chris Huggins, Herman Musahara, Prisca Mbura Kamungi, Johnstone Summit Oketch and Koen Vlassenroot
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Food security, social protection, growth and poverty reduction synergies: the starter pack programme in Malawi
September 2004
Sarah Levy with Carlos Barahona and Blessings Chinsinga
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Rethinking agricultural policies for pro-poor growth
September 2004
Andrew Dorward, Shenggen Fan, Jonathan Kydd, Hans Lofgren, Jamie Morrison, Colin Poulton, Neetha Rao, Laurence Smith, Hardwick Tchale, Sukhadeo Thorat, Ian Urey, and Peter Wobst
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Reform of forestry advisory services: Learning from practice in Uganda
August 2004
Mike Harrison, Rebecca Ssabaganzi, Ian Goldman and James Carnegie
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People on the move: new policy challenges for increasingly mobile populations
June 2004
Priya Deshingkar and Edward Anderson
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Social Protection and Pro-Poor Agricultural Growth: What Scope for Synergies?
January 2004
John Farrington, Rachel Slater and Rebecca Holmes
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Policy research and African agriculture: time for a dose of reality?
January 2004
Steven Were Omamo and John Farrington
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Livelihoods, chronic conflict and humanitarian response: a review of current approaches
October 2003
Catherine Longley and Daniel Maxwell
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Making the link between micro and meso: learning from experience of Community-based Planning (CBP)
October 2003
CBP Partners in Ghana, Uganda, South Africa and Zimbabwe
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Post Offices, Pensions and Computers: New Opportunties for Combining Growth and Social Protection in Weakly Integrated Rural Areas
June 2003
John Farrington, N. C. Saxena, Tamsyn Barton and Radhika Nayak
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Decentralising natural resource management: lessons from local government reform in India
June 2003
Pari Baumann and John Farrington
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'Just wildlife?' Or a source of local development?
April 2003
Caroline Ashley and Joanna Elliott
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The enabling environment for agricultural technology in Sub-Saharan Africa and the potential role of donors
April 2003
Rob Tripp
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Poverty reduction, equity and climate change: challenges for global governance
April 2003
Michael Richards
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Do Area Development Projects have a future?
December 2002
John Farrington, Roger Blench, Ian Christoplos, Karin Ralsgård and Anders Rudqvist
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Supermarkets and farming in Latin America: pointing directions for elsewhere?
December 2002
Thomas Reardon, Julio A. Berdegué and John Farrington
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Creating a policy environment for pro-poor agricultural extension: the who? what? and how?
May 2002
John Farrington, Ian Christoplos, Andrew Kidd and Malin Beckman with Elizabeth Cromwell
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Combining growth and social protection in weakly integrated rural areas
May 2002
John Farrington and Gerard J. Gill
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Rights and Livelihoods Approaches: Exploring Policy Dimensions
May 2002
Tim Conway, Caroline Moser, Andy Norton and John Farrington
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Mainstreaming cross-cutting themes in programme and sector aid: The case of environmental issues
March 2002
Gil Yaron and Judy White
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Devolution and community-based natural resource management: Creating space for local people to participate and benefit
March 2002
Sheona Shackleton, Bruce Campbell, Eva Wollenberg and David Edmunds
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From supervising 'subjects' to supporting 'citizens': recent developments in community forestry in Asia and Africa
February 2002
David Brown, Yam Malla, Kate Schreckenberg and Oliver Springate-Baginski
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International conservation treaties, poverty and development: The case of CITES
January 2002
Barnabas Dickson
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Biodiversity management and local livelihoods: Rio plus 10
January 2002
Robin Grimble and Martyn Laidlaw
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Recognising diversity: Disability and rural livelihoods approaches in India
October 2001
Janet Seeley
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Ethical trading - A force for improvement, or corporate whitewash?
October 2001
Andries du Toit
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Globalisation and policies towards cultural diversity
July 2001
Roger Blench
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Sustainable livelihoods, rights and the new architecture of aid
July 2001
John Farrington
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Linking development with democratic processes in India: Political capital and sustainable livelihoods analysis
July 2001
Pari Baumann and Subir Sinha
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Globalisation and livelihood diversification through non-traditional agricultural products: The Mexico case
June 2001
Leonel Ramírez Farías
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How have the poor done? Mid-term review of India's ninth five-year plan
March 2001
N.C. Saxena
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Agri-tourism spatial development initiatives in South Africa: Are they enhancing rural livelihoods?
March 2001
Thembela Kepe, Lungisile Ntsebeza and Linda Pithers
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Redistributive land reform in Southern Africa
January 2001
Martin Adams and John Howell
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Re-examining the 'more people less erosion' hypothesis: special case or wider trend?
November 2000
Charlotte Boyd and Tom Slaymaker
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Re-valuing the communal lands of southern Africa: new understandings of rural livelihoods
November 2000
Sheona Shackleton, Charlie Shackleton and Ben Cousins
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Linking formal and informal financial intermediaries in Ghana: conditions for success and implications for RNR development
November 2000
Howard Jones, O. Sakyi Dawson, Nicola Harford and Aba Sey
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GMOs and NGOs: Biotechnology, the policy process and the presentation of evidence
September 2000
Rob Tripp
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The changing role of fisheries in development policy
June 2000
Ian Payne
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Land tenure reform and the balance of power in eastern and southern Africa
June 2000
Liz Alden Wily
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Public plant breeding in an era of privatisation
June 2000
Robert Tripp and Derek Byerlee
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Aquaculture, poverty impacts and livelihoods
June 2000
Peter Edwards
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Policies to promote non-farm rural employment in Latin America
June 2000
Julio A. Berdegué, Thomas Reardon, Germán Escobar and Rubén Echeverría
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Women, human capital and livelihoods: An ergonomics perspective
April 2000
Tahseen Jafry
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Godsend, sleight of hand, or just muddling through: Joint water and forest management in India
April 2000
Sharachchandra Lele
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Rural Africa at the crossroads: Livelihood practices and policies
April 2000
Deborah Bryceson
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Pro-poor tourism: Putting poverty at the heart of the tourism agenda
March 2000
Caroline Ashley, Charlotte Boyd and Harold Goodwin
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Institutional support for sustainable rural livelihoods in southern Africa: Results from Zimbabwe, Zambia and South Africa
March 2000
Ian Goldman, James Carnegie, Moscow Marumo, David Munyoro, Nomathemba Kela, Somi Ntonga, Ed Mwale
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Institutional support for sustainable rural livelihoods in southern Africa: Framework and methodology
March 2000
Ian Goldman, James Carnegie, Moscow Marumo, David Munyoro, Elaine Kela, Somi Ntonga, Ed Mwale
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Marrying farmer cooperation and contract farming for service provision in a liberalising sub-Saharan Africa
November 1999
Jonathan Coulter, Andrew Goodland, Anne Tallontire and Rachel Stringfellow
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Seasonal Climate forecasting: who can use it and how should it be disseminated?
November 1999
Roger Blench
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Can tropical forestry be made profitable by ”internalising the externalities"?
October 1999
Michael Richards and Pedro Moura Costa
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Reconciling interests among wildlife, livestock and people in eastern Africa: A sustainable livelihoods approach
June 1999
Charlotte Boyd with Roger Blench, David Bourn, Liz Drake and Peter Stevenson
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What's special about wildlife management in forests? Concepts and models of rights-based management, with recent evidence from West-Central Africa
June 1999
Amar Inamdar, David Brown and Stephen Cobb
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Hunter-gatherers, conservation and development: From prejudice to policy reform
June 1999
Roger Blench
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Sustainable livelihoods in practice: Early applications of concepts in rural areas
June 1999
John Farrington, Diana Carney, Caroline Ashley and Cathryn Turton
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Competitive Agricultural Technology Funds in Developing Countries
April 1999
Gerard J. Gill and Diana Carney
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Rural livelihood diversity in developing countries: Evidence and policy implications
April 1999
Frank Ellis
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Land tenure and rural livelihoods in southern Africa
February 1999
Martin Adams, Sipho Sibanda and Stephen Turner
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Multiple uses of common pool resources in semi-arid West Africa: A survey of existing practices and options for sustainable resource management
November 1998
Timothy O. Williams
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Assessing the potential of forest product activities to contribute to rural incomes in Africa
November 1998
Michael Arnold and Ian Townson
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Encouraging sustainable smallholder agriculture in southern Africa in the context of agricultural services reform
July 1998
Martin Whiteside
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Assessing the need to manage conflict in community-based natural resource projects
July 1998
Michael Warner and Philip Jones
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Enhancing rural livelihoods through participatory watershed development in India
July 1998
Cathryn Turton and John Farrington
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Participatory biodiversity conservation - rethinking the strategy in the low tourist potential areas of tropical Africa
July 1998
David Brown
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Biodiversity conservation and its opponents
July 1998
Roger Blench
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Climatic uncertainty and natural resource policy: What should the role of government be?
April 1998
Roger Blench and Zoë Marriage
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Commercial financing of seasonal input use by smallholders in liberalised agricultural marketing systems
April 1998
Andrew Dorward, Jonathan Kydd, Fergus Lyon, Nigel Poole, Colin Poulton, Laurence Smith and Michael Stockbridge
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Shifting Cultivators as agents of deforestation: Assessing the evidence
April 1998
David Brown and Kathrin Schreckenberg
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Indonesia and the 1997-98 El Niño: Fire problems and long-term solutions
April 1998
Neil Byron and Gill Shepherd
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Organisational roles in farmer participatory research and extension: Lessons from the last decade
January 1998
John Farrington
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Rethinking approaches to tree management by farmers
January 1998
Michael Arnold and Peter Dewees
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Recent experiences with participatory technology development in Africa: practitioners' review
January 1998
Alistair Sutherland, Adrienne Martin and Jon Salmon
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The role of agricultural education in improving the performance of support services for the renewable natural resources sector
September 1997
Ian Wallace and Esse Nilsson
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Neglected species, livelihoods and biodiversity in difficult areas: How should the public sector respond?
September 1997
Roger Blench
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Tragedy of the commons for community-based forest management in Latin America?
September 1997
Michael Richards
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Supporting sustainable agriculture through extension in Asia
July 1997
Chris Garforth and Anna Lawrence
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Improving access of smallholders to agricultural services in sub-Saharan Africa: Farmer cooperation and the role of the donor community
June 1997
Rachel Stringfellow, Jonathan Coulter, Trevor Lucey, Colin McKone and Ambereene Hussain
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Better land husbandry: Re-thinking approaches to land improvement and the conservation of water and soil
June 1997
Francis Shaxson, Mary Tiffen, Adrian Wood and Cate Turton
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Water resource development in the drought-prone uplands
February 1997
Cathryn Turton and Anthony Bottrall
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Scaling up participatory watershed development in India: The case of the Indo-German Watershed Development Programme (IGWDP)
February 1997
John Farrington and Crispino Lobo
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Aspects of resource conflict in semi-arid Africa
November 1996
Roger Blench
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Financing of agricultural research and extension for smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa
November 1996
Jonathan Beynon
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Formal farmers'organisations in the agricultural technology system: Current roles and future challenges
November 1996
Diana Carney
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How does stronger protection of intellectual property rights affect seed supply? Early evidence of impact
November 1996
Joeroen van Wijk
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Improving livestock production through extension: Information needs, institutions and opportunities
November 1996
John Morton and Richard Matthewman
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What makes a local organisation robust? Evidence from India and Nepal
July 1996
Mary Hobley and Kishore Shah
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Stabilising the Amazon frontier: Technology, institutions and policies
July 1996
Michael Richards
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Socio-economic methods in natural resources research
May 1996
John Farrington
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A fresh look at agricultural input regulation
March 1996
Robert Tripp and David Gisselquist
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The erosion of crop genetic diversity: Challenges, strategies and uncertainties
March 1996
Robert Tripp and Wieneke van der Heide
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Land reform: New seeds on old ground?
October 1995
Martin Adams
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Recent trends in irrigation management changing directions for the public sector
September 1995
Hugh Turral
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Management and supply in agriculture and natural resources: Is decentralisation the answer?
June 1995
Diana Carney
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Alley farming: Have resource-poor farmers benefited?
June 1995
Jane Carter
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Public sector agricultural extension: Is there life after structural adjustment?
November 1994
John Farrington
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Redesigning for risk: tracking and buffering environmental variability in Africa's rangelands
November 1994
Roy Behnke and Carol Kerven
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