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Sustainable development: women as partners

01/02/1993

5 pages long

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Sustainable development: women as partners

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Dem explores how Oxfam’s work in rural areas can adapt its approach to meet the needs of urban women. She uses the example of Senegal’s economic crisis of the 1980s that plunged many women in urban areas into poverty. Sustainable development in this case meant women organising themselves and working together to actively determine their […]

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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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Women in the Eastern Province: more hit by drought and yet more enduring

01/02/1993

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Women in the Eastern Province: more hit by drought and yet more enduring

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In response to the 1992 drought in the Eastern province of Zambia, Oxfam held four community workshops in which local people decided upon action to address their most urgent needs. Hundreds of women attended our four workshops in the worst hit areas of Petauke and Nyimba: Luembe, Nyalugwe, Kalindawalo and Mwape. The women who came […]

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Background to the drought

01/02/1993

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In response to the 1992 drought in the Eastern province of Zambia, Oxfam held four community workshops in which local people decided upon action to address their most urgent needs. Reports from these workshops show how women suffer in times of drought, walking vast distances in search of food and water for their families. But […]

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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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Environmental change and quality of life

01/02/1993

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Environmental change and quality of life

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How do farmers see environmental changes affecting their family’s well-being? How are they trying to cope with and improve the situation? What can outsiders do to support them in these efforts? These questions were addressed in the March 1992 issue of ILEIA Newsletter, a journal of the Information Centre for Low External Input in Sustainable […]

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Looking for a regenerative approach to sustainability

01/02/1993

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Looking for a regenerative approach to sustainability

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Attempts at ‘sustainable development’ often fail to take into account the different needs of men and women with regard to the environment. Redclift argues that a regenerative approach to development is needed, as current approaches only serve to reinforce gender inequalities. She considers this alternative in relation to women and rights over the environment, energy […]

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Introduction

01/02/1993

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This article does not have a description. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. For the full table of contents for this and previous issues of this journal, please visit the Gender and Development website.

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Multilateral agencies, NGOs, and policy reform

01/11/1992

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This article examines the growth in relations that have occurred between multilateral agencies (MLAs) and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) during the past decade. It identifies three substantive debates in the MLAs on participatory development, value for money, and the role of the public sector in social service delivery that have served to promote greater interest in […]

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A peasant farmers’ literacy programme

01/11/1992

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Literacy gives people a framework for critical thinking and informed action. A number of peasant farmers’ organisations have developed in the wake of economic restructuring in Honduras, Central America. The authors describe and assess the Literacy Programme of the National Office of Agricultural Workers (Central Nacional de Trabajadores del Campo, CNTC), which aims to provide […]

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