Specialist series

Natural Resource Perspectives

ODI Natural Resource Perspectives coverODI Natural Resource Perspectives present accessible information on current development issues and are sent to a wide audience of policy makers, researchers and people working in the non-governmental sector. The series ran from 1994 to 2008.

John Farrington, Editor of the NRP series, writes "Unfortunately, Sida support to the series has come to an end, and though they are happy with the series, their funding priorities have changed and enquiries have established that the series can no longer be included in their portfolio.

It has been a privilege, and a very enjoyable one, to edit the series since it began some 14 years ago, and we hope the existing NRPs will continue to be a valuable resource to you."

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A typology for Public Works Programming
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 121, December 2008
Digging holes and filling them in again? How far do public works enhance livelihoods?
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 120, November 2008
Community Area Based Development Approach (CABDA) Programme: An alternative way to address the current African food crisis?
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 119, November 2008
Can project-funded investments in rural development be scaled up? Lessons from the Millennium Villages Project
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 118, November 2008
Support for migrant workers: The missing link in India's development
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 117, October 2008
Towards 'smart' subsidies in agriculture? Lessons in recent experience in Malawi
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 116, October 2008
Rising food prices: Cause for concern
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 115, July 2008
Accra 2008: The bumpy road to aid effectiveness in agriculture
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 114, April 2008
Agricultural advisory services and the market
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 113, April 2008
Community forestry in the Amazon: The unsolved challenge of forests and the poor
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 112, April 2008
Making agriculture work for the poor
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 111, October 2007
Community-Based Worker Systems – a possible solution to more services, reaching many communities, and within budget
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 110, October 2007
Climate change, agricultural policy and poverty reduction - how much do we know?
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 109, September 2007
Where the land is greener – experiences contributing to sustainable land management
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 108, September 2007
Biofuels, Agriculture and Poverty Reduction
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 107, June 2007
Food security in Southern Africa
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 106, June 2007
Rural Recovery in Fragile States: Agricultural support in countries emerging from conflict
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 105, February 2007
The business side of sustainable forest management: Small and medium forest enterprise development for poverty reduction
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 104, December 2006
How can the rural poor participate in global economic processes?
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 103, December 2006
Is low external input technology contributing to sustainable agricultural development?
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 102, November 2006
The Millennium Villages Project – a new approach to ending rural poverty in Africa?
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 101, August 2006
Poverty Reduction Strategies and the Rural Productive Sectors: What have we learnt, what else do we need to ask?
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 100, May 2006
Walking tightropes: Supporting farmer organisations for market access
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 99, November 2005
Responding to HIV/AIDS in agriculture and related activities
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 98, March 2005
Cash transfers – Mere 'Gadaffi Syndrome', or serious potential for rural rehabilitation and development?
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 97, March 2005
Conflict in the Great Lakes region - how is it linked with land and migration?
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 96, March 2005
Food security, social protection, growth and poverty reduction synergies: the starter pack programme in Malawi
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 95, September 2004
Rethinking agricultural policies for pro-poor growth
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 94, September 2004
Reform of forestry advisory services: Learning from practice in Uganda
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 93, August 2004
People on the move: new policy challenges for increasingly mobile populations
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 92, June 2004
Social Protection and Pro-Poor Agricultural Growth: What Scope for Synergies?
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 91, January 2004
Policy research and African agriculture: time for a dose of reality?
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 90, January 2004
Livelihoods, chronic conflict and humanitarian response: a review of current approaches
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 89, October 2003
Making the link between micro and meso: learning from experience of Community-based Planning (CBP)
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 88, October 2003
Decentralising natural resource management: lessons from local government reform in India
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 86, June 2003
'Just wildlife?' Or a source of local development?
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 85, April 2003
The enabling environment for agricultural technology in Sub-Saharan Africa and the potential role of donors
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 84, April 2003
Poverty reduction, equity and climate change: challenges for global governance
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 83, April 2003
Do Area Development Projects have a future?
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 82, December 2002
Supermarkets and farming in Latin America: pointing directions for elsewhere?
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 81, December 2002
Creating a policy environment for pro-poor agricultural extension: the who? what? and how?
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 80, May 2002
Combining growth and social protection in weakly integrated rural areas
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 79, May 2002
Rights and Livelihoods Approaches: Exploring Policy Dimensions
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 78, May 2002
Mainstreaming cross-cutting themes in programme and sector aid: The case of environmental issues
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 77, March 2002
From supervising 'subjects' to supporting 'citizens': recent developments in community forestry in Asia and Africa
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 75, February 2002
International conservation treaties, poverty and development: The case of CITES
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 74, January 2002
Biodiversity management and local livelihoods: Rio plus 10
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 73, January 2002
Recognising diversity: Disability and rural livelihoods approaches in India
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 72, October 2001
Ethical trading - A force for improvement, or corporate whitewash?
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 71, October 2001
Globalisation and policies towards cultural diversity
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 70, July 2001
Sustainable livelihoods, rights and the new architecture of aid
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 69, July 2001
Linking development with democratic processes in India: Political capital and sustainable livelihoods analysis
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 68, July 2001
Globalisation and livelihood diversification through non-traditional agricultural products: The Mexico case
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 67, June 2001
How have the poor done? Mid-term review of India's ninth five-year plan
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 66, March 2001
Agri-tourism spatial development initiatives in South Africa: Are they enhancing rural livelihoods?
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 65, March 2001
Redistributive land reform in Southern Africa
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 64, January 2001
Re-examining the 'more people less erosion' hypothesis: special case or wider trend?
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 63, November 2000
Re-valuing the communal lands of southern Africa: new understandings of rural livelihoods
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 62, November 2000
GMOs and NGOs: Biotechnology, the policy process and the presentation of evidence
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 60, September 2000
The changing role of fisheries in development policy
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 59, June 2000
Land tenure reform and the balance of power in eastern and southern Africa
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 58, June 2000
Public plant breeding in an era of privatisation
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 57, June 2000
Aquaculture, poverty impacts and livelihoods
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 56, June 2000
Policies to promote non-farm rural employment in Latin America
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 55, June 2000
Women, human capital and livelihoods: An ergonomics perspective
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 54, April 2000
Godsend, sleight of hand, or just muddling through: Joint water and forest management in India
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 53, April 2000
Rural Africa at the crossroads: Livelihood practices and policies
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 52, April 2000
Pro-poor tourism: Putting poverty at the heart of the tourism agenda
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 51, March 2000
Institutional support for sustainable rural livelihoods in southern Africa: Framework and methodology
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 49, March 2000
Marrying farmer cooperation and contract farming for service provision in a liberalising sub-Saharan Africa
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 48, November 1999
Seasonal Climate forecasting: who can use it and how should it be disseminated?
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 47, November 1999
Can tropical forestry be made profitable by ”internalising the externalities"?
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 46, October 1999
Reconciling interests among wildlife, livestock and people in eastern Africa: A sustainable livelihoods approach
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 45, June 1999
Hunter-gatherers, conservation and development: From prejudice to policy reform
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 43, June 1999
Sustainable livelihoods in practice: Early applications of concepts in rural areas
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 42, June 1999
Competitive Agricultural Technology Funds in Developing Countries
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 41, April 1999
Rural livelihood diversity in developing countries: Evidence and policy implications
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 40, April 1999
Land tenure and rural livelihoods in southern Africa
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 39, February 1999
Assessing the potential of forest product activities to contribute to rural incomes in Africa
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 37, November 1998
Encouraging sustainable smallholder agriculture in southern Africa in the context of agricultural services reform
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 36, July 1998
Assessing the need to manage conflict in community-based natural resource projects
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 35, July 1998
Enhancing rural livelihoods through participatory watershed development in India
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 34, July 1998
Biodiversity conservation and its opponents
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 32, July 1998
Climatic uncertainty and natural resource policy: What should the role of government be?
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 31, April 1998
Commercial financing of seasonal input use by smallholders in liberalised agricultural marketing systems
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 30, April 1998
Shifting Cultivators as agents of deforestation: Assessing the evidence
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 29, April 1998
Indonesia and the 1997-98 El Niño: Fire problems and long-term solutions
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 28, April 1998
Organisational roles in farmer participatory research and extension: Lessons from the last decade
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 27, January 1998
Rethinking approaches to tree management by farmers
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 26, January 1998
Recent experiences with participatory technology development in Africa: practitioners' review
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 25, January 1998
Neglected species, livelihoods and biodiversity in difficult areas: How should the public sector respond?
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 23, September 1997
Tragedy of the commons for community-based forest management in Latin America?
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 22, September 1997
Supporting sustainable agriculture through extension in Asia
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 21, July 1997
Better land husbandry: Re-thinking approaches to land improvement and the conservation of water and soil
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 19, June 1997
Water resource development in the drought-prone uplands
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 18, February 1997
Aspects of resource conflict in semi-arid Africa
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 16, November 1996
Financing of agricultural research and extension for smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 15, November 1996
Formal farmers'organisations in the agricultural technology system: Current roles and future challenges
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 14, November 1996
How does stronger protection of intellectual property rights affect seed supply? Early evidence of impact
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 13, November 1996
Improving livestock production through extension: Information needs, institutions and opportunities
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 12, November 1996
What makes a local organisation robust? Evidence from India and Nepal
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 11, July 1996
Stabilising the Amazon frontier: Technology, institutions and policies
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 10, July 1996
Socio-economic methods in natural resources research
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 9, May 1996
A fresh look at agricultural input regulation
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 8, March 1996
The erosion of crop genetic diversity: Challenges, strategies and uncertainties
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 7, March 1996
Land reform: New seeds on old ground?
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 6, October 1995
Recent trends in irrigation management changing directions for the public sector
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 5, September 1995
Management and supply in agriculture and natural resources: Is decentralisation the answer?
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 4, June 1995
Alley farming: Have resource-poor farmers benefited?
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 3, June 1995
Public sector agricultural extension: Is there life after structural adjustment?
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 2, November 1994
Redesigning for risk: tracking and buffering environmental variability in Africa's rangelands
Publications - Specialist Series - Natural Resource Perspective 1, November 1994