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The researchers use socio-economic analysis frameworks and the […] View resource Journal article What is development? 01/05/1995 6 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Development in Practice Journal Development methods DiP Livelihoods Overview The author presents his views on the essential ingredients of development, comparing the development ideal with its reality. Development is about change for the better, which must be appropriate (culturally, economically, technologically etc.) if change is to take root, and gain the participation of beneficiaries. Equity and justice are at the heart of any change […] View resource Journal article Living or surviving: reflections on Central America 01/02/1995 9 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Development methods Food security Overview As the civil wars in Central America subside, the region is undergoing far-reaching changes in its economies, and in the role of the State, in particular in the growth of the maquila (assembly plant) industry, and the reduction of the public sector. However, poverty has increased, and is associated with high levels of violence and […] View resource Book One Earth, Two Worlds 01/01/1995 1 documents 32 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Agriculture Conflict Disasters Overview Poor people in the South have every reason to protect their own environment; they depend on it more directly than the rich and are more immediately affected by its destruction or deterioration. Yet in many places they are powerless to defend or improve it. View resource Discussion paper Pastoral Livelihoods in Danger: Cattle disease, drought, and wildlife conservation in Mursiland, south-western Ethiopia 01/01/1995 1 documents 51 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Agriculture Livelihoods Pastoralism Overview This report is the outcome of a field study carried out with cattle herders in northern Mursiland, Ethiopia, on behalf of Oxfam GB. Its immediate purpose was to seek the views of local herd-owners on how the pastoral economy could be strengthened, without external intervention, in a remote area prone to cattle disease and drought. […] View resource Book Agricultural Trade and Food Security 01/01/1995 1 documents 111 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Agriculture Fair trade Food security Overview How does a $16,000 subsidy per farmer in the U.S. translate into food insecurity for households in Cagayan Valley? How does a few percentage point rise in grains demand in South Korea drive up meat prices in the wet market of Valencia in Cotabato? This book takes us through the interaction of international trade realities […] View resource Book Bangladesh: The strength to succeed 01/01/1995 5 documents 65 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Agriculture Overview Bangladesh: The Strength to Succeed looks behind the headlines to discover the reality of daily life for ordinary Bangladeshis. The problems people face do not only arise from the difficult climatic conditions: some result from the legacy of colonial exploitation, others are a consequence of a society structured to benefit a small elite at the […] View resource Journal article New directions for pastoral development in Africa 01/11/1994 11 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Agriculture Development in Practice Journal Development methods DiP Pastoralism Overview The last few years have seen a major rethinking of some of the hallowed assumptions of range ecology and range-management practice. The usefulness of terms such as ‘vegetation succession’s, ‘carrying capacity’s, and ‘desertification’s is being reassessed, particularly for the dry rangelands which are dominated by highly variable rainfall and episodic, chance events such as drought. […] View resource Journal article Family tracing: In whose interests? 01/11/1994 3 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Development in Practice Journal Development methods DiP Livelihoods Social protection Overview This article is based on research commissioned by Save the Children Fund (SCF) into five family-tracing programmes in five African countries. The author describes the stages involved in tracing the families of children, and highlights the efforts that must be made at each stage to ensure the interests of each child are paramount, and are […] View resource Journal article Operationality in turbulence: the need for change 01/11/1994 13 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Development in Practice Journal Development methods DiP Food security Overview What are the implications for NGOs of the increasingly unpredictable environment in which they work? This article highlights lessons from the natural sciences and from private-sector management. If development is about the process of change, then we need a more refined analysis of what change is. Food crises and conflicts are about struggles over power […] View resource Posts navigation Prev page Page 1 … Page 105 Page 106 Page 107 … Page 113 Next page Spotted an error? Let us know