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The Role of Faith-Based Organizations in HIV Prevention and Care in Central America

01/09/2011

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A comparative analysis of microfinance and conditional cash transfers in Latin America

01/08/2011

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This paper addresses the question of whether microfinance and conditional cash transfers can be effective in alleviating poverty in the Latin American region, and provides a comprehensive assessment of each of these programmes using data and evaluation reports from 19 countries in the Latin American region, analysed in the context of six operational and impact […]

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Attitude counts: engaging with rice farmers in West Africa

01/08/2011

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An international project called PADS promoted participatory learning and action research with inland valley rainfed rice farmers in West Africa. All countries received the same training, similar funding, and the same leadership. Although the staff in Ghana were conscientious and gave much training to the farmer beneficiaries, the Mali staff explicitly encouraged farmers to experiment. […]

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Transdisciplinary innovation research in Uzbekistan – one year of ‘Follow-the-Innovation’

01/08/2011

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In 2008, a German-funded interdisciplinary research project in Khorezm province, Uzbekistan, initiated a participatory approach to innovation development and diffusion with local stakeholders. Selected agricultural innovations, developed by the project and identified as ‘plausible promises’, have since then been tested and modified accordingly by teams of researchers, local farmers and water users. This paper discusses […]

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Papua International Biodiversity Conference: banking on the social capital conference report of the International Biodiversity Conference for Sustainable Development in Papua Land (Jayapura, 11–15 November 2009)

01/08/2011

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The International Biodiversity Conference for Sustainable Development in Papua Land (Jayapura, 11–15 November 2009) gathered inputs and best practices from various sources, and initiated commitments towards conservation and sustainable development in one of the earth’s areas of richest biodiversity and bio-cultural heritage. The conference resulted in mandating the establishment of a local working group which […]

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A framework for understanding civil society in action

01/08/2011

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The past 30 years have seen a proliferation in the use of the phrase ‘civil society’ linked to international aid, resulting in the creation of official donor ‘civil society departments’. At the same time there has been growing understanding that international development has become commercialised into the ‘aid industry’. The result is an explosion of […]

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Physically disabled women’s creditworthiness in Village Development Fund: evidence from Thailand

01/08/2011

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Physically disabled women’s creditworthiness in Village Development Fund: evidence from Thailand

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The Village Development Fund (VDF) is used in Thailand to empower the rural poor, especially women living with disabilities. This article investigates the problems of gaining access to credit faced by physically disabled women in rural Thailand. In-depth interviews with 20 women with physical disabilities in north-eastern Thailand indicate that these women still do not […]

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Editorial

01/08/2011

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Digital technology uses for sustainable management of natural resources in multicultural contexts

01/08/2011

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This article questions the notion that the use of digital technologies guarantees better policy development for the sustainable management of natural resources, particularly in multicultural contexts. It is argued that input of digital technologies could positively or negatively affect the geopolitical projects and development strategies pursued by indigenous peoples. This article is hosted by our […]

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Thinking and acting outside the charitable food box: hunger and the right to food in rich societies

30/06/2011

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From a food-supply standpoint, the 30 member states of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) – the world’s rich club – can reasonably claim to be self-sufficient. Issues of food access are met through publicly funded social safety nets, and, for those who fall through the cracks, the emergency food-aid system, increasingly institutionalised […]

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