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A growing call for organisation
… their basic right of freedom of association. It is here perhaps that development NGOs can help. By building awareness among agricultural … talking about smallholders or wage labourers, our efforts to reduce rural poverty will be limited without organisation. The share of market value that reaches the rural poor depends on the terms of either employment, for farm workers, …
Article, 02 June 2011
The chairman of the Mpungu Authorised Resource User Group, Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, who was involved in the development of the 'Multiple Use' programme (Photo: Mariel Harrison)
Built on collaboration: how conservation research can benefit local people
… aims to improve efforts to integrate protected area conservation with development so that local people benefit.   Developing partnerships … programmes for local communities, for example providing support for sustainable agriculture, as well as projects focused specifically on the … to conserving protected areas in regions densely populated by the rural poor.  When we presented the results, UWA immediately reviewed the …
Insight, 27 March 2015
Participants from 26 countries attended the Forest Connect workshop (Photo: Hop Thinh)
Locally controlled forestry enterprises could teach us all a thing or two
… gradually shifted to local communities, and local forest enterprise development is now seen as a priority by the government to address rural poverty and environmental degradation. This made it an appropriate … are local producers who have a greater democratic interest in the sustainable management of local natural resources, meeting local demand …
Insight, 04 February 2015
Privatising Nigeria’s power sector
… electricity grid – with 90% of those unconnected Nigerians living in rural communities. As a result, many rural households are forced to use diesel and petrol-driven generators – … prices this year - required as part of making grid operation sustainable and commercially viable - will likely be met by more …
Insight, 27 January 2012
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Chapter 2 SURVEYING THE FIELD OF SEA
Publication, 01 January 1970
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Publication, 01 January 1970
Has agriculture been a winner in the economic downturn?
… price crisis was felt particularly by the urban poor, as well as the rural poor who do not produce enough food for their own household needs … markets. Attention must remain focused on the unfinished business of rural development, to improve infrastructure and availability of credit, … Sustainable markets …
Insight, 14 June 2010
Agricultural research must change radically to realise people's right to food
… Dr Michel Pimbert of the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED). "It is about supporting domestic markets and … the need to transform knowledge — using ecology as the basis for sustainable agriculture and de-colonialising economics from narrow … knowledge and their customary institutions, thereby undermining rural livelihoods and food security," says Coulibaly. "Neoliberal …
News, 16 February 2007
Biofuels boom risks increasing landlessness among world's poor
… increase the social benefits biofuels production can bring to the rural poor in developing countries. "Despite the highly polarised … Sustainable markets …
News, 02 June 2008
Men stand by trays of cocoa beans drying in the sun in western Ghana.
The knowns and unknowns of the global land rush
… have led to the emergence of growing middle classes interested in rural land as a means to store value and generate complementary income. … a researcher at the Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD) involved with the Land Matrix , pointed out that the …
Insight, 24 October 2012