On-site sanitation systems, such as septic tanks and pit latrines, are the predominant feature across rural and urban areas in most developing countries. However, their management is one of the most neglected sanitation challenges. While under the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the set-up o...
Mtimet, Nadhem
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Dube, Sikhalazo
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[International conference on livestock value chain finance and access to credit: Proceedings book from the livestock finance conference, Ezulwini, Swaziland, 21–23 February 2017]
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International conference on livestock value chain finance and access to credit: Proceedings book from the livestock finance conference, Ezulwini, Swaziland, 21–23 February 2017
Identifies some of the factors which affect decisions on the absolute level and structure of financing livestock services, on cost recovery and privatization as well as the direction policy is likely to take as a result. Explores instruments available to directors of veterinary services and hence...
Anteneh, A.
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[Financing livestock services: Do directors of veterinary services have a distinct role in policy-making?]
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Financing livestock services: Do directors of veterinary services have a distinct role in policy-making?
This brief addresses the major challenges and opportunities to financing climate change mitigation and adaptation pathways for smallholder farmers in developing nations. It underlines the need for an innovative and integrated approach to climate finance that can connect rural farmers to public an...
Foster K
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Neufeldt, Henry
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Franks P
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Diro, R.
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Munden, L
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Anand M
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Wollenberg, Eva K.
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[Climate Finance for Agriculture and Livelihoods]
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Climate Finance for Agriculture and Livelihoods
This summary is a condensed version of the June 2011 Agriculture and Climate Change: A Scoping
Report developed by a team of expert authors, in consultation with UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiators and other key stakeholders, and facilitated by Meridian Institute. The a...
Meridian Institute
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Lee D
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[Agriculture and Climate Change Policy Brief: Main Issues for the UNFCCC and Beyond]
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Agriculture and Climate Change Policy Brief: Main Issues for the UNFCCC and Beyond
Examines the role and importance of the livestock subsector of Africas' agricultural sector, its performance over the last two decades, the constraints which limit its development and the progress being made in solving theese constraints.
Anteneh, A.
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Anteneh, B.
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[Policy, finance and technology in livestock development in sub-Saharan Africa: Some critical issues]
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Policy, finance and technology in livestock development in sub-Saharan Africa: Some critical issues
The implementation and success of REDD+ strategies, plans and projects will depend on whether REDD+ influences governance or is shaped by existing governance failures. As governments prepare for REDD+ implementation, they should: – address faulty forest policies and revise development and market ...
Petkova, E.
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Larson, A.M.
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Contreras-Hermosilla, A.
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Toni, F.
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[Governance, forests and REDD+ in Latin America]
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Governance, forests and REDD+ in Latin America
Increasing forest financing requires better communication and understanding between the forestry and finance sectors. This can take the form of joint development of financing strategies, instruments and business cases. Limited forest financing is often less about money availability than about poo...
Boscolo, M.
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Dijk, K. van
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Savenije, H.
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[Financing sustainable small-scale forestry: policy issues and lessons from developing national forest financing strategies in Latin America]
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Financing sustainable small-scale forestry: policy issues and lessons from developing national forest financing strategies in Latin America
Silvia-Forest Management System is a computer application designed to help managers and technicians in the sustainable management of forest plantations. Silvia version 2 includes a plantations database, an equations database, and modules to simulate future grwoth and yield, process inventory data...
Vallejo, A.
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Kanninen, M.
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Montero, M.
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Viquez, E.
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[Silvia: a flexible system for integrated plantation management]
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Silvia: a flexible system for integrated plantation management
This study outlines a case where the behaviour of farmers in accumulating capital, rather than their poverty as commonly assumed, results in deforestation. Fieldwork was undertaken in the Upper Kerinci region of the island of Sumatera, Indonesia. A financial analysis of the "net income" streams r...
Wibowo, D.H.
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Tisdell, C.A.
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Byron, R.N.
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[Deforestation and capital accumulation: lessons from the Upper Kerinci region, Indonesia]
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Deforestation and capital accumulation: lessons from the Upper Kerinci region, Indonesia