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1 January 2003
Published by: IDS
Human rights have become a key focus of law and development, yet they remain conspicuously absent from the regulatory and policy regimes...
1 January 2002
Published by: James Currey
Across rural Africa there are multiple pathways of livelihood change, reflecting many combinations of agriculture technology and practice. These are, in turn, influenced by a wide array of institutions, social relations and policy contexts. This book looks at the diverse pathways of crop and livestock change in three contrasting settings, in Ethiopia, Mali and Zimbabwe.
1 January 2001
Background paper, Biotechnology and the policy process in developing countries project
Sustainable Livelihoods in Southern Africa was a three-year collaborative project carried out by research partners in Mozambique, South Africa, UK and Zimbabwe, funded by the UK Department for International Development.
Modern agricultural biotechnology has profound implications for global and local agricultural and food systems, and for the livelihoods of farmers in the developed and developing worlds. The actual consequences will depend on the pathways along which the technology is developed and applied in practice.
1 January 2000
Published by: IDS
This paper asks why policy processes in Zimbabwe have consistently reinforced a highly technocratic approach to natural resources management, while excluding alternative perspectives and framings of problems for policy.
1 January 1999
Published by: IDS
Participation of communities is widely argued to be an important factor in improving health outcomes and the performance of health systems.
1 January 1998
Published by: IDS
This paper constitutes a preliminary output of the ODA-funded research programme on sustainable livelihoods being carried out by the Institute of Development Studies and the Poverty Research Unit at the University of Sussex, in collaboration with the International Institute for Environment and Development.
1 January 1998
Published by: IDS
This paper presents and discusses the results of empirical research into the provision of vocational training by private sector training...
The aim of this project has been to explore the dynamics of crop-livestock integration in contrasting agroecological settings in Africa through an analysis of the institutions which mediate change.