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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    November, 2014
    Myanmar

    ... Large-scale agricultural investments – in plantations, processing plants or contract farming schemes, for example – have increased in recent years, particularly in developing countries. Investment in the agriculture sector can bring much needed support for rural development, but communities have also witnessed significant negative impacts. Some of the most serious involve local landholders being displaced from their lands and losing access to

  2. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    July, 2014

    Smallholder teak (Tectona grandis) plantations have been identified as a potentially valuable component of upland farming systems in northern Laos that can contribute to a “livelihood transition” from subsistence-oriented swidden agriculture to a more commercially-oriented farming system, thereby bringing about a “forest transition” at the landscape scale. In recent years, teak smallholdings have become increasingly prominent in the province of Luang Prabang, especially in villages close to Luang Prabang City.

  3. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    June, 2014

    For a long time, the agricultural policies of the Mercosur states ignored family farming, focusing on promoting individual crops and export production instead. Rural development was not on the agenda. Only after the turn of the millennium did a process of rethinking set in.

  4. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    March, 2014
    Global

    Publicly elected women representatives in India ought to take advantage of their influence to defend women’s rights.

  5. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    March, 2014
    Global

    Providing extension and advisory services is expensive. There are salaries to be paid, transporta­tion and operational funds to be provided, buildings to be rented or built, demonstration plots to maintain, and continued education to be offered to the extension staff. And then there is the need to continually invest in an overall functioning agricultural innovation system with strong research and teaching institutions, enabling policies, as well as to make capital investments in rural infrastructure that will not only benefit the farming population.

  6. Library Resource
    August, 2014
    Burkina Faso

    The authors present evidence that in
    Burkina Faso, certain high-performing local institutions
    contribute to equitable economic development. They link
    reduced levels of poverty, and inequality to a high degree
    of internal village organization. The structure of these
    high-performing local organizations means they can exist in
    a number of African countries, because they depend more on
    internal participation, rather than on nay one

  7. Library Resource
    September, 2014
    Nicaragua

    The International Monetary Fund (IMF)
    and the World Bank introduced the Poverty Reduction Strategy
    Paper (PRSP) process in 1999 to strengthen the poverty
    alleviation focus of their assistance to low-income
    countries. This report reviews Nicaragua s experience with
    the PRSP process, focusing on the effectiveness of IMF and
    World Bank support to the process and the extent to which
    the two institutions lending and non-lending activities in

  8. Library Resource
    January, 2014
    Indonesia, Thailand

    This article assesses the impact of the
    East Asian financial crisis on farm households in two of the
    region's most affected countries, Indonesia and
    Thailand, using detailed household level survey data
    collected before and after the crisis began. Although the
    natures of the shocks in the two countries were similar, the
    impact on farmers' income (particularly on
    distribution) was quite different. In Thailand, poor farmers

  9. Library Resource
    August, 2014
    Senegal

    The main objective of the study is to
    provide the Government of Senegal the analyses and
    information to implement policies towards reducing the rural
    poor's vulnerability. While during the latest years,
    economic growth reduced poverty in the country, this has
    been less noticeable among the rural population, who
    actually account for 6 million people over a total
    population of 10 million. The rural economy remains

  10. Library Resource
    March, 2014
    Laos

    This report is part of a strategy to
    promotes trade competitiveness within the East Asia and
    Pacific Region. It presents an overview of the logistics
    issues facing East Asia countries and proposes a development
    agenda for them. Based on the recognition that the
    countries have basic differences in their level of
    development, extent of openness, and composition of trade,
    it begins by discussing the benefits of improved logistics.

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