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Lifting people out of poverty is one of the great challenges facing the international community today. It has become still more daunting in the context of the global financial crisis, which has severe implications for the poorest people in the world. Almost 1.4 billion people in developing...
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Biotechnology is probably as old as civilization itself. Special methods of food preparation, such as developing drinks from fermenting wheat or fruit, or making cheese, were known in prehistoric times. In recent decades, this old science has seen dramatic new developments. With the recent...
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, Kazakhstan, and Moldova) that have had particular difficulties with land reform, farm restructuring, farm performance, or rural …
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to land grabbing and expropriation with poor compensation as about 90 percent of rural lands in Sub Saharan Africa are …
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Following discussion during a two day working meeting, this publication brings together the edited papers, along with a selection of supplementary materials. A first series of papers addresses competing definitions and conceptual issues around power and rights, illustrating these with...
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the rural sector, which is where one finds the bulk of the population and almost all the poor. Economic development will … typically entail moving many rural households out of farming into more remunerative (urban and rural) non-farm activities …. Reforms that shift the rural economy from the relatively rigid, control-based farming institutions found under socialist …
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integrate forest management with rural development in a sustainable way. …
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Using recent advances in modeling climate-related risks and adjusting state of the art catastrophic risk modeling techniques to drought, the study conducts an innovative long-term assessment of drought risks in Andhra Pradesh, India, and suggests strategies to reduce their impact, under several...
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The Forests Sourcebook is divided into two parts. The first contains an introduction to the book plus seven chapters covering topics associated with enhancing the contribution of forests to poverty reduction, engaging the private sector, meeting the growing demand for forest products, optimizing...
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