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Miscellaneous Wiggins, S. 2008 IPPG Discussion Paper Series Number Twenty-One, DFID, London, UK, 35 pp. This essay compares the experiences of agricultural development and overall development in two similar but very different countries: Bolivia and New Zealand. Similar since they both have small populations living from economies based on relatively abundant natural resources; and both are remote from the centres of the world economy.

Miscellaneous Mazingira Institute 2005 Mazingira Institute, Nairobi, Kenya, 4 pp.

Miscellaneous Mazingira Institute 2005 Mazingira Institute, Nairobi, Kenya, 4 pp.

Miscellaneous Mediae 2008 In a year-long trial in Kenya, Makutano Junction responded to thousands of text messages each month from among the 6 million regular TV viewers requesting follow up information on development issues. Mediae - the programme's producers - have now developed a database and analysis system that is starting to reveal tangible impacts of the weekly shows:

In May 2008 an episode of Makutano Junction focused on simple Seed Soaking techniques that accelerate seed germination and improve crop yields.

Miscellaneous S. Dercon and D. Ayalew 2007 CSAE WPS/2007-07, 33 pp. This paper provides evidence from one of the poorest countries of the world that the
institutions of property rights, in particular related to land, are of crucial importance
for investment and growth. In Ethiopia, with all land state-owned, the threat of land
redistribution never appears far off the agenda. A constitutional reform in 1996 has
promised long-term user rights, and land rental and leasing have been made legal, but
land rights remain restricted and the perception of continuing tenure insecurity

Miscellaneous R. M. Welch and R. D. Graham 2005 Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology (2005) 18 (4) 299-307 [doi:10.1016/j.jtemb.2005.03.001] Human existence requires that agriculture provide at least 50 nutrients (e.g., vitamins, minerals, trace elements, amino acids, essential fatty acids) in amounts needed to meet metabolic demands during all seasons. If national food systems do not meet these demands, mortality and morbidity rates increase, worker productivity declines, livelihoods are diminished and societies suffer.

Miscellaneous CIMRC 2008 A selection of news, projects, and other stories about DFID-funded research in Southern Africa from the R4D portal www.research4development.info

Miscellaneous M. J. Potts and S. Nagujja 2007 HarvestPlus Working Paper 1, 92 pp. This paper reviews Government policies and strategies in Uganda from the aspect of their ability
to address malnutrition and micronutrient deficiency, and considers means by which
biofortification of staple food crops can support this policy. The rationale for focusing
on policies and strategies in these sectors is based on the UNICEF conceptualization of
the causation of nutritional outcomes. The conceptual framework presents a generalized understanding of how malnutrition is

Miscellaneous Yaron, G.; Moyini, Y.; Wasike, D.; Kabi, M.; Barungi, M. 2004 GY Associates, Harpenden, UK, 17 pp. The Poverty Eradication Action Plan (PEAP) revision provides an opportunity to consider the linkage of environment
and natural resources (ENR) and poverty-reducing growth. This link with poverty reduction

Miscellaneous Yaron, G.; Moyini, Y.; Wasike, D.; Kabi, M.; Barungi, M. 2004 GY Associates, UK, 120 pp. This report has been prepared for the Poverty Eradication Action Plan (PEAP) sub-committee and the Environment and Natural Resource (ENR) Sector Working Group. It explores the linkage between the environment and natural resources, and poverty-reducing growth.
The primary purpose of this document is to support the policy conclusions and recommendations given in the

Miscellaneous CIMRC 2008 2 pp.

Miscellaneous 2008 DFID, London, UK, 26 pp. This Working Paper on Sustainable Agriculture and Renewable Natural Resources is one of a series of 10 papers published alongside DFID's Research Strategy 2008-2013. It presents the case for DFID-funded research on Sustainable Agriculture and Renewable Natural Resources ? drawing on the responses given during a global consultation that DFID convened in 2007 about its future research.

Miscellaneous RIU 2007 CPP40, New technologies, new processes, new policies: tried-and-tested and ready-to-use results from DFID-funded research, Research Into Use Programme, Aylesford, Kent, UK, ISBN 978-0-9552595-6-2, p 95.

Miscellaneous RIU 2007 CPH33, New technologies, new processes, new policies: tried-and-tested and ready-to-use results from DFID-funded research, Research Into Use Programme, Aylesford, Kent, UK, ISBN 978-0-9552595-6-2, p 92.

Miscellaneous BBSRC/DFID 0 6 pp. This background document presents the following:
1. Strategic background to the scheme
2. Scope of the scheme
3. Size and duration of grants
4. Assessment criteria

Miscellaneous RIU 2007 AFGP04, New technologies, new processes, new policies: tried-and-tested and ready-to-use results from DFID-funded research, Research Into Use Programme, Aylesford, Kent, UK, ISBN 978-0-9552595-6-2, p 73. This is one of 280 summaries describing key outputs from the projects run by DFID's 10-year Renewable Natural Resources Research Strategy (RNRRS) programmes.Principally based on Projects R7052, R8286 and R7917. Growing crops and fish together raises productivity and helps relieve pressure on land and water

Miscellaneous Bentley, J. W.; Boa, E. 2006 Clínica
Global de Plantas, Cochabamba, Bolivia, 55 pp. This book contains 48 fact sheets (in Spanish) written during 4, five-day courses held in October and November 2005. The training was given by Boa and Bentley under FIT-22, a project by ATICA and the Global Plant Clinic. The introduction is given in both English and Spanish.

Miscellaneous R. F. R. López and J. I. Terrazas 2006 Centro AGUA, UMSS, Bolivia. 45 pp. This study treats the land use mapping in three years: 1983, 1992 and 2003. The study objective is to contribute with information to the discussion on the land use in the Tiquipaya

Miscellaneous Chabot, P. 2004 RALF, ICARDA, Aleppo, Syria, 34 pp. This research project proposal document was submitted to the RALF Project Review Panel. There have been repeated efforts to identify the crop that can serve as an
alternative to opium production but the results have been modest at best. With this in mind,
Mercy Corps, CAZS and the Provincial Departments of MAAH in Helmand and Kandahar will
adopt a decentralised and atomised strategy, initiating and testing a large number and variety

Miscellaneous Anderson, P.;Dolman, G.;Barak, H. 2004 RALF, ICARDA, Aleppo, Syria, 25 pp. This presentation introduces the RARE project, as proposed in the RARE Project Proposal Document.