Because of increasing water scarcity in developing countries, poor people are suffering greatly from ?water deprivation.? One approach to improving water resources management is to develop river basin management institutions. This paper contrasts government-dominated approaches to forming such institutions with attempts to create stakeholder-based institutions. Two cases of the latter, in Mexico and South Africa, are compared to extract lessons for other countries.
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsDecember, 2000Mexico, South Africa, Mozambique, China, India, Sri Lanka
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsDecember, 2000Morocco, Africa, Northern Africa
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsDecember, 2000
Biometric skills in developing countries are inadequate to support the changing priorities of agricultural research with the consequence that the quality of research aimed at increasing food security and alleviating poverty is often deficient because it lacks good statistical design" (CTA, 1997).
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsDecember, 2000Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsDecember, 2000
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsDecember, 2000Sri Lanka, South-Eastern Asia
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsDecember, 2000Cameroon, Africa, Middle Africa
In sub-Saharan Africa, intensification of agriculture and rational use of arable land are essential for long-term growth (Gros, 1979, Johnston, 1990, Oluf et al., 990). Extensive cultivation methods and the population explosion are pushing the limits of cultivated land every day; deforestation accelerates; the productive capacity of the land is reduced
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsDecember, 2000Sri Lanka, South-Eastern Asia
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsDecember, 2000Sri Lanka, South-Eastern Asia
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