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    Irrigation as a source of drinking water: Is safe use possible?

    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2002
    Pakistan, Southern Asia
    farming systems
    land
    farmland

    Published in ?Tropical Medicine and International Health, Vol.6, No.1, pp.46-54, January 2001.? The complete article is available on the CD-ROM version of this Annual Report.

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    Increasing the benefits to disadvantaged groups in multistakeholder forestry negotiations

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2002
    Forest Tenure
    forest law
    community forestry
    forest management plans

    This infobrief provides key points that will benefit disadvantaged groups in multistakeholder negotiations. Negotiations that include all the groups or stakeholders concerned should increase democratic decision-making and compromise. Experience has shown that the benefits that disandvantaged groups receive from multistakeholder negotiations depend on how the negotiations are done. This infobrief describes some of the pitfalls of multistakeholder negotiations and proposes ways for disadvantaged groups to avoid them.

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    Impact of grazing on plant species richness, plant biomass, plant attribute, and soil physical and hydrological properties of Vertisol in East African highlands

    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2002
    Africa, Eastern Africa
    grazing

    Understanding the problems of grazing land in vertisol areas and seeking long-lasting solutions is the central point where mixed crop livestock is the second stay for the majority of the population. In order to understand this, the current study was conducted at two sites, one with 0-4% slope and the other with 4-8% slope at Ginchi watershed, 80 km west of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The specific objectives of the study were to quantify changes in plant species richness, biomass, plant cover, and soil physical and hydrological properties.

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    Household livelihoods in semi-arid regions: options and constraints

    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2002
    Zimbabwe
    Forest Tenure
    Indigenous & Community Land Rights
    forest law
    common lands
    natural resources management
    community forestry
    poverty
    rural development
    forest management plans

    The overall aim of this study was to explore what the development community can do, or facilitate, to significantly improve livelihoods in semi-arid systems.The authors based their analysis on two case-study sites in the communal lands of southern Zimbabwe. The main tool was a detailed livelihood questionnaire, supplemented by participatory appraisal and observation, action research, biophysical analysis and systems modelling.

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    Evaluating adoption of new crop-livestock-soil-management technologies using georeferenced village level data: the case of cowpea in the dry savannahs of West Africa

    Reports & Research
    December, 2002
    Africa, Western Africa
    land use
    land management

    The present study uses georeferenced community level data to study the adoption of improved cowpea in northern Nigeria. One objective of this study is to find out which factors of the community of village level are significant determinants of adoption of improved dual-purpose (DP) cowpea variaties and management techniques.

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