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- Crop diversity and livelihood security in the Andes
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Andean farmers have traditionally adapted and selected varieties of quinoa and potatoes to reduce their vulnerability to a range of environmental risks. Data suggest that this strategy is being undermined. Market pressures, particularly the requirements f ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:45
- More money, new household cultural dynamics: women in microfinance in Ghana
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This article reports on research into the impacts of micro-finance on gender roles, the extent to which socio-cultural factors influence these changes, and how such changes affect the well-being of rural Bogoso households in the Wassa West District of G ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:34
- Dealing with hidden issues: trafficked women in Nepal
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The authors describe the extent of the trade in mainly rural Nepalese women, sold into prostitution and bonded labour in Asia and the Middle East, often by their families, because of poverty. The organisation Women Acting Together for Change (WATCH) works ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:56
- Promoting gender equality? An overview of some development-related uses of ICTs by women
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Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have created new economic and social opportunities the world over. Their use, however, continues to be governed by existing power relations where women frequently experience relative disadvantage. Amidst t ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:02
- Scaling up the benefits of Agroforestry Research: Lessons learned and research challenges
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The case studies demonstrate the breadth and richness in approaches to and lessons learned from scaling up. A key lesson is that scaling up is far more complex than simply transferring information and planting material; it entails building community-level ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:07
- Spreading manufacturing growth gains through local jobs: lessons from the Guatemalan highlands
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The author describes the evolution of the garment-manufacturing sector in the district of Totonicapán in the Guatemalan highlands, an area long associated with weaving and related skills. Producers have been shrewd in finding ways to take advantage of cha ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:10
- A Claim to Land by the River: A Household in Senegal 1720-1994
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Author: Adams, Adrian and Jaabe Issue: Volume ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-07 09:07
- Projects with People: The Practice of Participation in Rural Development
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Author: Oakley, Peter et al. Issue: Volume 2, ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-17 12:58
- Characteristics and strategies favouring sustained food access during Guinea's food-price crisis
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This study examines household food-access status in rural areas of Guinea, a poor, net food-importing West African state, during the height of the food-price crisis. Linking a household's food-access status with specific household characteristics and st ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2011-08-16 09:29
- Fostering rural sense of place: the missing piece in Uturu, Nigeria
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This article argues that the absence of a sense of place in rural Nigeria impedes development. It uses the case of Uturu to show that understanding the relationships people share with natural features and phenomena around them is important in their deve ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2013-04-30 12:10
