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Rainforest Relations: Gender and Resource Use Among the Mende of Gola, Sierra Leone

This book brings forest dwellers' own differentiated perspectives to current rainforest debates.

Beyond Farmer First: Rural People’s Knowledge, Agricultural Research and Extension Practice

This book describes the ideological and political process that is agricultural development. It points towards more practical strategies for developing effective and equitable partnerships between indigenous knowledge systems through adaptive, people-centred, agricultural research and extension, moving from theory to policy and practice.

Reversed Realities: Gender Hierarchies in Development Thought

Published by: Verso

This collection forms a critique of conventional development concepts from a gender perspective. It traces the emergence of 'women' as an analytical category in development thought, and the gradual shift to a focus on gender and gender relations.

The Public Health Sector in Mozambique: a Post-war Strategy for Rehabilitation and Sustained Development

Africa to 2000 and Beyond: Imperative Political and Economic Agenda

This book examines the major causes of Africa's economic and social crisis, which although recognized and widely discussed from the...

After the GATT Uruguay Round: Implications for Developing Countries

Published by: IDS

The new Uruguay Round agreement, to be signed in Marrakech in April, establishes the framework for trade into the next century.

Trade and Development Strategy Options for the Poorest Countries: A Preliminary Investigation

Published by: IDS

The paper aims to provoke thought on the apparent entrapment of the poorest countries in a vicious circle of self-perpetuating backwardness. It begins with a selective review of the debate on growth failure, covering conventional and structuralist arguments and new growth theory.

Market Reforms and the Emergence of Civil Society in Post-Mao China

Published by: IDS

Any inquiry into the emergence of "civil society" in post-Mao China is bedevilled both by ambiguity o f the term "civil society" itself...

Skill, Land and Trade: A Simple Analytical Framework

Published by: IDS

This paper proposes a minimal model of the relationship between human resources and foreign trade in developing countries, aimed at...

Paradigm Shifts and the Practice of Participatory Research and Development

Published by: IDS

"Participation" has three uses and meanings: cosmetic labelling, to look good, co-opting practice, to secure local action and...