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- Mangrove planting in Vietnam
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In 1989, Save the Children Fund (UK) began an experimental project to plant mangroves along a coastal estuary in the Thach Ha district of Ha Tinh province in northern central Vietnam. It was designed and managed by the district forestry and water manageme ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:54
- Feminise our forests: consultation on the World Commission on Forests and Sustainable Development
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Citing the case of the Self Employed Women's Association's (SEWA) experience in nine districts of Gujarat, India, an argument is presented for returning almost the entire forestry sector to the women through their cooperatives of groups. Such an argument ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:58
- NGOs, corporate social responsibility, and social accountability: Inditex vs. Clean Clothes
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Markets and businesses are undergoing major changes as globalisation deepens. Pressure from diverse social groups, both environmental and economic, is changing the operating environment. Many corporations are interested in devising social-responsibility s ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:05
- Juxtaposing handloom weaving and modernity: building theory through praxis
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This article investigates the interaction between the processes of building development theory and development practice, arguing that theory must start with practice – and should not be top–down, starting with the ‘outside gaze’ of a supposedly detached a ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:08
- Review of The World's Scavengers: Salvaging for Sustainable Consumption and Production
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Author: Medina, Martin Publisher: Lanham, MD, Alta Mira Press, 2007, ISBN-10: ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-08 09:22
- Non-Governmental Organisations and the State in Latin America: Rethinking Roles in Sustainable Agricultural Development
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Author: Bebbington, Anthony and Graham Thiele Issue: ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-07 09:18
- The dynamics of contemporary local-government policies and economic development in West Papua
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There have been enormous political, economic, and social changes in West Papua. Every governor of West Papua has designed programmes to boost economic development and reduce poverty. The influx of migrant workers under the ‘transmigration programm ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2011-06-27 12:59
- ‘Risky lives’: risk and protection for children growing-up in poverty
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Child protection has focused on responding to interpersonal violence and abuse. This approach can detach children from the broader socio-economic and political structures which shape their life chances, by concentrating on the symptoms of risk rather th ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2012-06-13 15:55
- Participatory technology development in agricultural mechanisation in Nepal: how it happened and lessons learned
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International Wheat and Maize Improvement Center (CIMMYT) projects on new resource-conservation technologies (RCTs) in the Indo-Gangetic Plains of Nepal aimed to strengthen equity of access, poverty reduction, and gender orientation in current rural mecha ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:00
- How can the poor benefit from private investment in agricultural research? A case study from Bolivia
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This article evaluates potential mechanisms for facilitating increased private sector engagement in agricultural research for development and technology transfer (ARDTT), with particular emphasis on Bolivia. It reviews the mixed results of efforts, in dev ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:50
