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Water Governance for Sustainable Development
Approaches and Lessons from Developing and Transitional Countries. Water resources have been universally identified as a key aspect of poverty reduction, agriculture and food security and sustainable development in developing, transitional, and developed countries worldwide.
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Declining Agricultural Commodity Prices
Productivity Gain or Immiserising Growth? Economic Paper 74: What are the best strategic options for developing country governments to improve rural living standards through agricultural growth?
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Jevons' Paradox and the Myth of Resource Efficiency Improvements
Build more roads and congestion goes up, not down; improve engine efficiency and people drive more, increasing (as opposed to decreasing) emissions ? these are examples of Jevons? Paradox, and clearly illustrate its importance in modern debates.
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Village Savings and Loan Associations
Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs) provide poor people in remote, rural areas with a safe place to store small amounts, and in doing so to build up a fund from which small, flexible loans can be taken by the members.
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Microfinance and Self Help Groups In India
Microfinance and Self Help Groups In India, Living Up to Their Promise?Self-Help Groups (SHGs), a means of reaching rural women with savings and credit services, have taken off dramatically in India, where an estimated 25 million women are members.
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Global Rice and Agricultural Trade Liberalisation
Poverty and Welfare Implications for South Asia. Rice has long been one of the most protected commodities in world trade. Now the probable significant liberalisation of trade in rice is likely to have huge welfare implications for many countries.
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Negotiating the Seed Treaty
Good research is vital for forming effective policies; this can come from a variety of organizations. What types of research and knowledge are effective in policymaking processes, and how do relationships become established between researchers and policymakers.
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Access of the Poor to Agricultural Services
The Role of Farmers' Organizations in Social Inclusion. Resource-poor farmers tend to have more limited access to research, training and advisory services than do resource-rich farmers.
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Governance for Sustainable Development
A Foundation for the Future. A new Stakeholder Forum book that builds on the hugely successful Earth Summit 2002 and How to Lobby at Intergovernmental Meetings. First book of its kind to provide a "baseline" of information on international governance.
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Beyond Territory and Scarcity
Exploring Conflicts over Natural Resource Management. The attainment of sound and sustainable environmental management is one of humanity's greatest challenges this century.
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Developing Markets for Agrobiodiversity
Securing Livelihoods in Dryland Areas. Only four crops?maize, potatoes, rice and wheat?provide more than 90 per cent of the world's food. Increasingly, old varieties of even these crops are disappearing.
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The Earthscan Reader in Sustainable Agriculture
Only reader of its kind in this field, edited by the world?s leading expert on sustainable agriculture. Maps out the complex subject area of sustainable agriculture; introduces and explains key hard-to-find literature.
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Sustainable Resource Use
Institutional Dynamics and Economics. The way that humans organize both resource access and resource use is vital to the management of natural resources.
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Woman’s Role in Economic Development
This classic text by Ester Boserup was the first investigation ever undertaken into what happens to women in the process of economic and social growth throughout the developing world and serves as an international benchmark.
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Labour Markets in Small Developing States
Recent studies of the economic growth and development process have emphasized the critical role of human development.
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Rural Planning in Developing Countries
Rural Planning in Developing CountriesSupporting Natural Resource Management and Sustainable Livelihoods:Rural planning is fundamental to the development of Third World countries.
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Sustainable Development Strategies
This book is a cornerstone resource for a wide range of organizations and individuals concerned with sustainable development at national and local levels, as well as for international organizations concerned with supporting such development.
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Sustainable Investing
With climate change now clearly on the horizon, the imperative of sustainability is starting to transform the world's capital markets. Already billions of dollars, pounds, euro and yen are being managed with a view to environmental, social and governance factors.
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An Introduction to Sustainable Development
The most comprehensive textbook ever written on sustainable development, pilot-tested worldwide. Coverage includes: background to sustainable development and global environmental issues; measurement and sustainability indicators; environmental assess and more.
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Horticultural Chain Management for Eastern and Southern Africa
A Theoretical Manual and a Practical Manual. Horticultural Chain Management for Eastern and Southern Africa is a two-volume work designed to help trainers develop suitable materials to assist small farmers and producers to supply high quality horticultural produce for sale.
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Multilateral and Regional Trade Issues for Developing Countries
The first in a set of volumes of compilations of Trade Briefs, offering sources of information and training, and a reference for officials, policy makers and others responsible for following negotiations on behalf of Commonwealth developing countries.
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Self-Sufficient Agriculture
Labor and Knowledge in Small-Scale Farming. "A subject of considerable contemporary importance . . . a genuine contribution to knowledge" -- Jules Pretty, author of Agri-Culture. First ever in-depth analysis of low external input farming.
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Cohousing
The revised edition of the definitive book--- updated and expanded with accounts of the new American communities.
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Food Sovereignty
Towards Democracy in Localized Food Systems. A practical analysis of the Food Sovereignty framework--the new proposition--by social movements all over the world, for the governance of food, and agriculture.
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Reconstructing Agriculture in Afghanistan
Pre-2001 Afghanistan has been widely represented as 25 years of war and devastation, leaving a post-conflict reconstruction agenda to start with a clean state. This analysis has ignored the nature of Afghanistan, its complexity, and its fundamental resilence.
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The ISIS Agreement
How Sustainability Can Improve Organizational Performance and Transform the World. The latest book by renowned business and sustainability consultant Alan AtKisson, author of Believing Cassandra and co-author of The Natural Advantage of Nations.
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Growing Better Cities
Urban Agriculture for Sustainable Development. The UN predicts that over the next twenty-five years nearly all population growth will be in the cities of the developing world.
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The Sustainability Handbook
The Complete Management Guide to Achieving Social,Economic and Environmental Responsibility. The Sustainability Handbook covers all the challenges, complexities and benefits of sustainability for businesses, governments and organizations.
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Halving Hunger
It Can Be Done: One of 14 publications comprising the official UN strategy on how to reduce extreme poverty and achieve the fundamental worldwide human development goals for the coming decade.
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The Peri-Urban Interface
Approaches to Sustainable Natural and Human Resource Use. The only comprehensive book on peri-urban (rural-urban) areas of the developing world, home to hundreds of millions of people; written by leading researchers and practitioners in the field.
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African Agriculture and The World Bank
Development or Impoverishment? African smallholder family farming, the backbone of the continental economy throughout the colonial and early post-colonial period, has been destabilized and eroded over the past thirty years.
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Water Supply and Sanitation Services for the Rural Poor
The Gram Vikas Experience. Safe drinking water near to the home and adequate household sanitation save poor households time, reduce illness and increase a sense of well being and dignity.
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The Emerging Debt Problems of Small States
The Emerging Debt Problems of Small States, Economic Paper #78: In recent years there has been a significant rise in the indebtedness of small states.
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Building Trust in Diverse Teams
The Toolkit for Emergency Response. Humanitarian practitioners identify trust as one of the most important factors in launching timely and effective emergency responses.
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Managing Humanitarian Relief
An Operational Guide for NGOs Responding effectively to humanitarian disasters is far from straightforward, and relief workers often find themselves working in competitive situations or at cross purposes with other agencies.
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From Poverty to Power
How Active Citizens and Effective States Can Change the World
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