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Editorial

01/06/1991

2 pages long

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The impact of food aid on cereal and livestock prices in Red Sea Province, The Sudan: 1980-1989

01/05/1991

11 pages long

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Drought-induced inflation of cereal prices and the consequent turning of the terms of trade against livestock upset existing exchange entitlements and contributed to higher than normal mortality rates among the rural Beja populations in Red Sea Province in the early to mid-1980s. The Beja are agropastoralists who raise goats and sheep, and sow some sorghum. […]

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Panning for salt in Benin and Brittany

01/05/1991

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The author describes the work of PIRATTES, a project jointly directed by the Co-operative of Salt Producers in Guande (France), the Scientific And Technological Centre (Benin), and the French Volunteer Association (AFVP). The project, linking communities involved in salt-production in the North and the South, introduced new processes to Benin to avoid the major ecological […]

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Social action group strategies in the Indian sub-continent

01/05/1991

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The purpose of this paper is to review the experience of social action groups (SAGs) in the Indian sub-continent over the past fifteen years or so. There are tensions between their stated objectives and their actual practice, and conflicts arising from their role in the political sphere. The author considers the practical problems and some […]

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Grassroots support organisations in Peru

01/05/1991

12 pages long

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Private developmental organisations have emerged rapidly and forcefully in Peru, amid a turbulent national context of change and acute social and economic instability over the last two decades. While no official statistics exist on the number of such organisations (there is no single entity that oversees or registers their activity), independent studies and surveys indicate […]

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Seeds for use and conservation

01/05/1991

8 pages long

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The Seed Bank of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew contains one of the world’s largest collections of seeds of wild plants. The history and physical nature of the Bank are described, together with the principles of seed physiology on which the collection is based. A major policy is the collecting, long-term storage and distribution of […]

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Famine and human rights

01/05/1991

7 pages long

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Famine is clearly and undeniably a terrible wrong, and famine is preventable. The occurrence of famine is an indictment of the ethics of the country in which it has occurred. Despite this, those claiming to represent ethical concerns in general and human rights in particular have had little impact on either understanding famine or dealing […]

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Ambassatna Nadif: An experimental household-rubbish collection project

01/03/1991

4 pages long

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Ambassatna Nadif: An experimental household-rubbish collection project

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In 1989 Oxfam approached the town council of N’Djamena, the capital of Chad, Africa, and set up a joint project to encourage community participation in improving sanitary conditions in Ambassatna. The author highlights the main problems and lessons to be learned from the project, three years into it, including issues around neglecting the role of […]

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Did the project fail? A community perspective on a participatory primary health care project in Ecuador

01/03/1991

15 pages long

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This article examines a UNICEF/Ministry of Health primary health care programme in Ecuador from a community perspective. It contributes to the debate concerning the way in which the relative ‘successes or ‘failures of participatory projects is measured. It argues for evaluators to distinguish between the perceptions of the different actors involved, and to extend their […]

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Pastoral development and the use of para-vets in southern Sudan

01/03/1991

9 pages long

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Pastoralism in the Sudan has produced complex and varied livestock management systems, finely adapted to local environmental conditions. The isolation of pastoral communities has made it difficult for development agencies to form working relationships with them, and mistakes have been made when donors attempted to introduce unsuitable breeds and crops. The author advocates post-drought restocking […]

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