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Better Rules for a Better Future: Regulating private sector agriculture

29/11/2012

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32 pages long

Languages: English

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In various communities across Southeast Asia, the unregulated influx of large-scale private agricultural investments has led to land grabbing, food insecurity and environmental degradation. Women, who are primarily responsible for putting food on the table, are especially affected by these problems. These challenges can be expected to increase as the Association of Southeast Asian Nations […]

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Journal article

Listening to the rice grow’: the local–expat interface in Lao-based international NGOs

01/02/2010

14 pages long

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Generally speaking, NGO studies have focused their attention on the organisational unit and its role in shaping development outcomes. With few exceptions, the analysis of development partnerships, in which NGOs play a crucial role, has largely been confined to examination of ‘donors’ and ‘receivers’ and not the dynamics within organisational settings. This article is concerned […]

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Journal article

Community-managed rice banks: lessons from Laos

01/06/2007

9 pages long

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Rice banks are increasingly used in South-East Asia as a means of addressing seasonal food crises facing poor communities. Despite general agreement about the effectiveness of community-managed rice banks in improving food security, there has been almost no research into their effectiveness in reaching the poorest, or the prospects of sustainability linked to regular repayments […]

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Journal article

The most significant lessons about the Most Significant Change technique

01/06/2007

13 pages long

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This article presents field-based insights into the application of the Most Significant Change (MSC) technique as a method to monitor social change resulting from a development intervention. Documentation of this innovative qualitative monitoring technique is slowly growing, but is mostly limited to grey literature. In particular, there is a lack of rigorous investigation to assess […]

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Journal article

Gender mainstreaming in government offices in Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos: perspectives from below

01/07/2005

11 pages long

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Gender mainstreaming in government offices in Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos: perspectives from below

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In this article, I aim to examine the ways in which gender concerns have been ‘mainstreamed’ into government activities. I focus on three countries in the Greater Mekong Sub-region: Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia. While gender mainstreaming policies are in place at the national level in these countries, the ‘evaporation’ (Longwe 1995) of such policies at […]

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