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Acknowledging Process: Challenges for Agricultural Research and Extension Methodology

Published by: IDS

Range Ecology at Disequilibrium: New Models of Natural Variability and Pastoral Adaptation in African Savannas

This book reviews recent biological research on African rangelands and highlights the management implications for future donor and national government policy. The relationship between livestock numbers and range degradation is debated, and more appropriate techniques for the assessment of rangeland carrying capacity and degradation are proposed.

The Arms Trade Today

Published by: World Council of Churches

Water Management Traditions in India

Published by: PPST Foundation

New Forms of Public Administration

Published by: IDS

One of the least contentious issues in post war development thinking was the form of public administration. There were disputes about the boundaries between public and private, but not about how the public sector should be run.

Sustainable Rural Livelihoods: Practical Concepts for the 21st Century

Published by: IDS

The purpose of this paper is to provoke discussion by exploring and elaborating the concept of sustainable livelihoods. It is based normatively on the ideas of capability, equity, and sustainability, each of which is both end and means.

Flexible Specialization: A New View on Small Industry?

Published by: IDS

This IDS Bulletin is a product of the working group 'Industrialisation Strategies' of the European Association of Development Institutes (EADI). At the general EADI conference in Oslo, June 1990, members of the working group expressed interest in exploring the relevance of flexible specialisation for Third World industry, especially small-scale industry.

Counterpart Funds and Development

Published by: IDS

Counterpart funds play an important, growing and often controversial role in developing countries. The IDS Bulletin reviews the issues and connects counterpart funds to wider themes in development: poverty targeting, aid conditionality, the management of the budgetary process — and many others. New guidelines are presented. The first priority is to narrow the gap between best and usual practice.

Poll Tax Rebellion

Published by: AK Press

The gripping inside story of the biggest mass movement in British history, which at its peak involved over 17 million people. Using a...

Botswana: Is the Economic Miracle Over?

Published by: IDS