May 1, 2005 / News
The agricultural sector remains our Achilles heel and source of vulnerability …Nonetheless, were main convinced that agricultural based development remains the only source of hope for Ethiopia. (Prime Minister Meles Zenawi 2000). A powerful strand of thinking about the causes
March 1, 2005 / Discussion Papers
By Ian Scoones May 2005 In this viewpoint piece I want to argue that, as currently organised, R and D systems – both public and private - don’t necessarily respond well to the needs of poor people in developing countries.
June 19, 2003 / News
By William Wolmer and Caroline Ashley IDS Bulletin Vol 34 No 3 2003 In rural southern Africa, access to wild resources is critical to livelihoods and various attempts have been made by policy-makers to increase the income derived from them
June 19, 2003 / News
By Alan Nicol and Sobona Mtisi IDS Bulletin Vol 34 No 3 2003 Access to and management of water resources is inherently political. Drawing on fieldwork from the Sustainable Livelihoods in Southern Africa programme, largely undertaken in Zimbabwe, with some
June 19, 2003 / News
By Edward Lahiff IDS Bulletin Vol 34 No 3 2003 Southern Africa today presents a wide spectrum of land policies, embracing a variety of forms of redistribution and tenure reform initiatives, utilising methods that range from consensual, market-based approaches to
June 19, 2003 / News
By the SLSA Team IDS Bulletin Vol 34 No 3 2003 One of the central tenets of much current development thinking in southern Africa is that market-oriented strategies and private sector involvement must be the basis for future economic growth.
June 19, 2003 / News
By the SLSA Team IDS Bulletin Vol 34 No 3 2003 Decentralisation, like good governance or sustainable development, is one of those concepts everyone from the World Bank to top officials in national governments seems to think is a “good thing”.
June 19, 2003 / News
By Ian Scoones and William Wolmer IDS Bulletin Vol 34 No 3 2003 Southern Africa is in the midst of a major food crisis. Fourteen million people are reported to be at risk. Most commentators agree that since around 1990,
June 19, 2003 / Journal special issues
Livelihoods in Crisis? New Perspectives on Governance and Rural Development in Southern AfricaIDS Bulletin Vol 34 No 3, 2003 Southern Africa is in the midst of a major food crisis. Fourteen million people are reported to be at risk. Most
January 1, 2003 / News
By Ian Scoones and William Wolmer IDS Bulletin Vol 34 No 3 2003 Rethinking Livelihoods As previous sections of this Bulletin have shown, the livelihoods of poor, rural people in southern Africa are highly complex, often vulnerable and subject to
January 1, 2001 / Miscellaneous
{jathumbnail off}Local classification of soil types, Gororo, southern Chivi Views on inorganic fertilizers and manures from Chivi communal Area Wetlands and gardening Profdes of case study farmers according to four soil-fertilitychange scenarios experimenting farmers in Chivi communal area Rural livelihoods:
March 1, 2000 / Miscellaneous
{jathumbnail off}{jcomments off}The poverty-reduction strategy adopted by Ethiopia seeks to achieve growth through the commercialisation of smallholder agriculture. The Plan for Accelerated and Sustainable Development to End Poverty (PASDEP), Ethiopia.s strategic framework for 2005/06 – 2009/10, relies on a massive
January 1, 1994 / Books
Beyond Farmer First: Rural People’s Knowledge, Agricultural Research and Extension PracticeEdited by Ian Scoones and John ThompsonISBN 1 85339 250 2ITDG Publishing (1994), 301 pages. Price: £12.95 This book presented a selection of the papers presented at the workshop “Beyond
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