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- The banking sector intervention in the microfinance world: a study of bankers' perception and outreach to rural microfinance in India with special reference to the state of Punjab
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Microfinance has been evolving as an indispensable tool of poverty eradication and rural improvement. At present, almost all the commercial banks have delved into the microfinance foray and offer various lucrative schemes designed for the rural poor, sp ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2012-08-16 10:17
- The future of Fair Trade coffee: dilemmas facing Latin America’s small-scale producers
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Fair Trade has become a dynamic and successful dimension of an emerging counter-tendency to the neo-liberal globalisation regime. This study explores some of the dilemmas facing the Fair Trade movement as it seeks to broaden and deepen its impact among th ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:46
- Mitigating the impact of HIV and AIDS on rural livelihoods: building on Southern African experiences to chart a way forward
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A variety of interventions to mitigate the increasing impact of the HIV and AIDS epidemic on smallholder agricultural production and food security are currently implemented in sub-Saharan Africa. However, documentation and dissemination of such interven ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:34
- Finance: friend or foe?
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Financial accountability is as important in development agencies as in other organisations, although providing expenses statements, keeping accurate accounts, and setting and monitoring budgets are often seen by development workers as excessively bureaucr ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:56
- Development versus enjoyment of life: a post-development critique of the developmentalist worldview
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This paper discusses the meaning of development from a post-development perspective, based on a case study of a goat-keeping project involving a small community of farmers from a rural town in northeast Brazil. The development project was fraught with con ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:03
- Participatory domestication of agroforestry trees: an example from the Peruvian Amazon
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Valuable tree genetic resources are declining around many farming communities in the Peruvian Amazon, limiting farmers' options for economic development. The International Centre for Research in Agroforestry is working with farming communities to increase ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:07
- Sweating it out: NGO campaigns and trade union empowerment
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In the context of globalisation, transnational social regulation is increasingly the product of NGOs intervening in the sphere of global trade. Drawing on empirical research in SE Asia, the author contends that what matters as much as codes of conduct are ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:11
- Farmers' Experiments: Creating Local Knowledge
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Author: Sumberg, James and Christine Okali Issue: ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-10 08:53
- Is the Sacred for Sale? Tourism and Indigenous Peoples
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Author: Johnston, Alison M. Publisher: London: Earthscan, 2006, ISBN: 1 8538 ...
Book review - admin - 2009-10-18 20:57
- The impact of high food prices on food security in Cambodia
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Food prices in Cambodia increased by 36.8 per cent between July 2007 and July 2008. High food prices negatively affected people from all walks of life, but the extent of the impact varied. The poorest 40 per cent of the population spend 70 per cent of t ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2011-08-16 10:15
