Documents & Reports
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Farmers as owners : Madhya Pradesh, India - improving livelihoods through community-owned institutions (English)
The state of Madhya Pradesh is one of India's leading agricultural states where the contribution of agriculture to the state gross domestic product is 26.9 percent (Yr 2001-02), while the total working...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 45494 Document Date: June 1, 2008 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ghosh,Sanchita, Sen, Biswajit
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Community-managed microfinance : a new model from Sri Lanka (English)
The Village Savings and Credit Organization (VSCO) is a community-managed microfinance organization developed in Sri Lanka under the Community Development and Livelihood Improvement Project, or Gemi Diriya...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 42732 Document Date: December 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Munshi,Meena M.,Ritchie,Anne,Nair,Ajai
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Community-managed food security enterprises in Andhra Pradesh, India (English)
Rice is a staple food for people in Andhra Pradesh, who buy most of it (70 percent) on the open market and get the balance (30 percent) from the Public Distribution System (PDS). Statistics show that the...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 42729 Document Date: December 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Mohan, Vijay,Takada,Mio,Kalavakonda, Vijaysekar,Banerjee,Shweta S.,Shah,Parmesh
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India Karnataka Watershed Development Sujala Project : innovation in participatory watershed development to improve natural resource productivity and rural livelihoods (English)
The Karnataka Watershed Development Project (KWDP), known locally as Sujala, was initiated in the year 2001 and is being implemented in seven districts of Karnataka. The project is scheduled to end on...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 42725 Document Date: December 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Milne,Grant
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Making markets work for the poor : community-managed procurement centers for small and medium farmers in Andhra Pradesh, India (English)
Small and marginal farmers in rural Andhra Pradesh have been subject to intensive exploitation by moneylenders, traders, and middlemen. Lack of access to the market, lack of power to negotiate prices due...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 42721 Document Date: December 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Rao,Kavita P.,Kalavakonda, Vijaysekar,Banerjee,Shweta S.,Shah,Parmesh
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Supporting the people sector : the South Asia experience in rural livelihoods development (English)
Experience in livelihoods programs in South Asia is generating lessons learned about this people sector and how to protect and develop the capacity of the poor to reach out to markets and services, whoever...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 41692 Document Date: October 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Hayward,Natasha,Brizzi,Adolfo