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Ethiopia: Breaking new ground

01/01/2003

1 documents

73 pages long

Languages: English

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This book celebrates the rich cultures of an ancient society, and describes its people’s efforts to revive their land. Times are hard: the years of war, drought, and political oppression in the 1980s left soils exhausted, schools and hospitals derelict, and communities fragmented. But the first edition of this book (Ethiopia: Breaking New Ground), published […]

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Discussion paper

Measuring Poverty in Nigeria

01/01/2003

1 documents

81 pages long

Languages: English

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There is no shortage of written materials about the nature and prevalence of poverty in Nigeria, but they are not all easily accessible by civil-society groups. Measuring Poverty in Nigeria was commissioned by Oxfam GB to support the development of its new programme of poverty-alleviation work in a society that is rich in human and […]

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Briefing paper

Poverty in the Midst of Wealth: The Democratic Republic of Congo

18/01/2002

1 documents

Languages: English

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The eruption of Mount Nyiragongo has made the situation dramatically worse for the people of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. But this is only the latest crisis on top of years of conflict and suffering. The ongoing war in the DRC has cost the lives of up to 2.5 million people in less than four […]

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Book

Indonesia

01/01/2002

5 documents

97 pages long

Languages: English

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Indonesia is a country of superlatives and contradictions: its 17,000 islands span an extent that is wider than the landmass of the USA; it is the fourth most populous country in the world, and its Muslim population is the world’s largest; more than half of the total population of 203 million live on the island […]

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Journal article

Urban sustainability under threat: the restructuring of the fishing industry in Mar del Plata, Argentina

01/05/2001

22 pages long

Free access through journal website

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As a result of the internal and external reforms introduced in the last two decades in Argentina, as in most Latin American countries, urban-based manufacturing activities have experienced a dramatic process of restructuring, which has prompted new social and environmental conflicts. In a context where macro-economic strategies are resulting in long-term restructuring of production patterns […]

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Journal article

Sustainable investments: women’s contributions to natural resource management projects in Africa

01/02/2001

17 pages long

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Sustainable investments: women’s contributions to natural resource management projects in Africa

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Can prospects for improving livelihood security and building sustainable environments in Africa be increased if women have greater influence in decisions about how to manage resources? Anecdotal evidence suggests that this question should be answered in the affirmative, yet few development agencies perform systematic evaluations with gender-disaggregated data despite nearly two decades of development literature […]

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Book

Bolivia

01/01/2001

5 documents

98 pages long

Languages: English

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In Bolivia more rural people live below the poverty line than in any other country in the world. Five hundred years after the arrival of the Spanish conquistadores, the country’s rich natural resources are still controlled and exploited by a privileged minority, while the indigenous majority struggle to subsist on the poorest soils, or migrate […]

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Book

Brazil

01/01/2000

4 documents

89 pages long

Languages: English

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Brazil is the fifth-largest country in the world, with an economy bigger than China’s and a population larger than Russia’s. It is rich in natural resources, and its cities are highly industrialised. It is a wealthy country – but in terms of human development it is one of the most unequal countries in the world. […]

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Journal article

Security of tenure, development victims, and the limits of environmental impact assessment in Zimbabwe’s communal lands

01/05/1999

7 pages long

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With specific reference to the case of granite mining in the Mutoko District in Zimbabwe, the author argues that while the state continues to hold rights to communal land, and freehold tenure is prohibited, Zimbabweans are being denied rights: in this case, a say in, and compensation for, damage to `their’ land caused by mining. […]

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Journal article

Testing environmental impacts of development projects

01/05/1998

6 pages long

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It is noted that identifying with protection and enhancement of natural resources as central to EC development support, articles 33-41 (of the Lome IV Convention) focuses on three principles: a preventive approach aimed at avoiding negative impacts on the environment as a result of any programme or operation; a systematic approach for ecological feasibility studies […]

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