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October 14, 2005
Reengaging in Agricultural Water Management - Executive Summary-
This report describes the changing context of demand and supply for agricultural water. It then identifies the policy, institutional, and incentive reform options that will accelerate productivity improvements and pro-poor growth. This includes a discu ...
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April 12, 2006
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Reengaging in Agricultural Water Management - Challenges and Options; World Bank 2006
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Since the late 1980s, irrigation lending has focused on system rehabilitation, with an increasing commitment to institutional reforms. However, for the last decade, a new paradigm centered on the integration of agricultural water management within a mo ...
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October 14, 2005
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Reaching the Poor: A Call to Action - Investment in smallholder agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa
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The most severe and intractable poverty in the world is in Africa south of the Sahara. Nearly half of all the people there live in absolute poverty, with incomes of less than a dollar a day. On present trends, two of the most fundamental Millennium Develo ...
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November 4, 2008
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Reaching the poor: A call to action - Investment in smallholder agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa
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Reaching the poor a call to action - Investment in smallholder agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa Prepared jointly by staff at FARM-Africa, Harvest Help and the Centre for Development and Poverty Reduction, Department of Agricultural Sciences, Imperial ...
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November 29, 2005
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Questionnaire pour les expériences avec DEER
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Ce questionnaire pour l’utilisateur représente notre instrument actuel pour évaluer le bien-fondé du guide DEER. Il vise à rassembler des données pour évaluer
si le cadre est app ...
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466 views/downloads
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November 29, 2005
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Questionnaire on experiences with REED
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This user’s questionnaire represents our current tool to validate the Guide to REED. The objective is to assemble useful data for evaluating
the applicability of the framework, and
the relevance of the corners ...
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663 views/downloads
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July 11, 2007
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Providing Financial Services in Rural Areas – A Fresh Look at Financial Cooperatives, World Bank 2007
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Financial cooperatives have a mixed history, which has made them unpopular with development practitioners. However, this report demonstrates that they can be a sustainable provider of financial services in rural areas and development assistance needs ...
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October 14, 2005
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Promoting sustainable rural development through agriculture - Canada making a difference in the Worl
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Canada Making a Difference in the World: A Policy Statement on Strengthening Aid Effectiveness outlines principles, policies, and programming approaches to improve the effectiveness of development assistance programs run by the Canadian International D ...
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March 13, 2008
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Promises and Challenges of Biofuels, Keynote Address, Joachim von Braun, IFPRI 2007
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A comprehensive policy framework will be fundamental to developing biofuels in such a way that they contribute towards energy security and environmental sustainability, and are pro-poor.
Such a framework requires three pillars:
Science a ...
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March 13, 2008
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Promises and Challenges of Biofuels for the Poor in Developing Countries, von Braun and Pachauri, Essay, IFPRI 2006
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In the past several years the changing world energy situation has generated intensive discussion about biofuels, much of it promising a source of environment-friendly energy that would also be a boon to
the world’s farmers. At the same time ...
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