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Accountable Aid: Local Participation in Major Projects

01/01/1998

1 documents

177 pages long

Languages: English

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Accountable Aid evaluates participatory approaches to natural resource management by contrasting the different attitudes and methodologies of three international development institutions, through a critical study of the social and environmental impact of three major projects: the World Bank and the Rondonia Natural Resource Management Project (PLANAFLORO) in Brazil.

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Book

The Philippines: In Search of Justice

01/01/1997

4 documents

64 pages long

Languages: English

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The Philippines is rich in natural resources, which are being rapidly and unsustainably exploited, and the widespread poverty in the country is a consequence of the unequal distribution of these resources. The book describes the strategies of the many fishing communities of the islands, who are struggling to survive as fish-stocks fall as a result […]

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Discussion paper

Livestock and Land-Use Surveys in Sub-Saharan Africa

01/01/1994

1 documents

45 pages long

Languages: English

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The extensive savannah regions of Africa are in a state of transition. There are increasing pressures on land use, as a result of the conflicting interests of farmers, pastoralists, foresters, and conservationists. Although arid rangelands have been progressively degraded by drought and overexploitation, by incorporating local communities’ expertise, natural resource management may be improved. More […]

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Journal article

Environment and women in Uganda: the way I see it

01/02/1993

3 pages long

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Environment and women in Uganda: the way I see it

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Adoko’s argument is that projects to protect the environment should not be made the responsibility of poor women, particularly since it is not women – or poor people – who are destroying the environment. In the case of tree planting in Uganda, women are burdened with collecting water for saplings, whilst important gender issues such […]

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Journal article

Women’s relationship with the environment

01/02/1993

6 pages long

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Women’s relationship with the environment

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This article examines how women use natural resources in urban and rural areas; how women’s interests have been harmed by environmental changes; and how they are responding. Although women cultivate the land for food and to earn a living intensive farming methods damage soil fertility, making women more prone to poverty. However women’s groups are […]

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Book

Developing and Managing Community Water Supplies

01/01/1993

1 documents

184 pages long

Languages: English

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External support agencies need to adopt a partnership approach to the development of community water supplies if communities are to he successful in managing their own supplies in the long term.

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Book

Behind the Lines of Stone: The social impact of a soil and water conservation project in the Sahel

01/01/1993

1 documents

193 pages long

Languages: English

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In 1979 Oxfam (UK and Ireland) began to fund an experiment in soil and water conservation in the drought-prone Yatenga region of Burkina Faso. By 1992 the technique of building stone diguettes along contour lines had won international acclaim and many imitators; cereal yields had significantly increased, and natural vegetation was growing spontaneously again.

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Journal article

Gender and the environment: Traps and opportunities

01/03/1992

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

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A growing debate about gender and the environment highlights women’s roles in the use and management of natural resources, opening up important opportunities for development analysis and action. But there are traps in conceiving of women’s roles in relation to the environment in a partial, narrow, or static way; of isolating them from men’s roles; […]

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Book

The Trade Trap

01/01/1992

5 documents

256 pages long

Languages: English

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This best-selling book explains how countries that depend on the export of primary commodities, like coffee or cotton, are caught in a trap: the more they produce, the lower the price falls on the international market. If they try to add value to their commodities by processing them, they run into tariff barriers imposed by […]

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Book

Brazil: A mask called progress

01/01/1991

1 documents

130 pages long

Languages: English

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Based on Oxfam’s 20 years of development experience in Brazil, A Mask Called Progress examines the conflicts that have brought many traditional communities to the edge of extinction, and threaten to destroy one of the richest natural environments on earth. In their own words, the people of the Brazilian rainforest – rubber-tappers and indigenous people […]

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