https://thesis.eur.nl/col/4327/ List of Publications en https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/9678/ Fri, 01 Oct 1982 00:00:01 GMT <div>Haroon, Farooq</div> The paper is divided into three chapters. The first outlines the history of cooperation in India, later in Pakistan and its growth until 1976. The second chapter discusses the. federalization itself. The third chapter explores the impact of federalization on rural cooperatives in so Ifar as their source of finance was drastically restructured. Finally, the coriclusions re-capitulate and high-light the strength and weaknesses of the four hypotheses that have been set-up in para. 8. A few words about the data. There is little published literature on the later period of c09perative institutions in Pakistan. Some reliance has therefore to be placed on experience of those who have work~ closely and directly with these institutions It has been kept in mind that this reliance should not be complete but corroborative and explanatory. Reliance should thus be both cautious and discrete. https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/8289/ Thu, 01 Jan 2004 00:00:01 GMT <div>Sanchez, Silvia Hernandez</div> Today, when the technological revolution is transforming the lives of those who are connected to it, the issue of access to information technology is becoming increasingly relevant in every part of the world. Thus it is indispensable for a country to be prepared for such changes (Human Development Report 2001). https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/9151/ Wed, 01 Dec 2004 00:00:01 GMT <div>Buhwamatsiko, Tumuheki Peace</div> https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/9202/ Wed, 01 Dec 2004 00:00:01 GMT <div>Chonya, Marjorie</div> Information provision to small-scale farmers in Zambia has been problematic for a long time now. The government therefore hopes that a policy framework will help smooth information provision to all sectors of the economy, including agriculture. This study therefore endeavoured to find out to what extent the draft ICT policy currently under formulation will answer to the small-scale farmers' information needs and access problems. https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/9671/ Wed, 01 Dec 2004 00:00:01 GMT <div>Landivar, Norah Elisabeth Jimenez</div> This research paper deals with the themes of gender and microfinance. It analyses the relationship among the different factors that contribute to the improvement the conditions of life of rural women and by extension of their families. It also studies the factors that affect the demand and supply of microcredit in agricultural contexts, and the form in which they relate with the successful experiences of what can be called the "Bolivian Microfinance Model", which renounces to the agricultural sector in order to contribute to development in Bolivia. https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/9719/ Wed, 01 Dec 2004 00:00:01 GMT <div>Salehin, Khan Mohammad Faizus</div> This study aims to investigate whether the Universal Primary Education (UPE) policies in Bangladesh take into account the reasons why the children especially the child labourers do not enter or complete primary· education. To do this, this research tries to locate the recognition of the link between child labour and education in UPE Policies. https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/8286/ Wed, 01 Dec 2004 00:00:01 GMT <div>Quang Tu, Pham</div> https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/9226/ Wed, 01 Dec 2004 00:00:01 GMT <div>Tsuma, William</div> This paper examines coastal management institutions in the Netherlands in light ofV&W's desire to mainstream public participation in coastal policy processes. First, it teases institutional outcomes and how they shape stakeholder participation within the highly democratic and decentralized system of coastal policy planning. It reveals that, despite the presence of decentralized institutional frameworks within coastal management, public involvement and broad-based stakeholder participation is far from being achieved. This it argues is a result of institutional outcomes and incentive structures which undermine efforts to foster people-centered policy processes by enabling the participation of a minority group within the coastal sector, while excluding the majority of the non-state actors and the public. This paper reveals that the current institutional structure and resultant incentives within it are not a result of bad practice but a product of the unique ecological and social-cultural characteristics of the county. The role that floods and rising sea levels have played in shaping coastal policy was noted in this paper as being the architect of the existing institutions. The paper concludes that, for people-centered policy processes to blossom within public institutions, the right incentives able to pull people toparticipate need to be established. In addition policy makers ought to be sensitive to contextual uniqueness of regions before adopting policy-planning methods as this has tended to explain the growing gap between policy and practice. https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/69681/ Fri, 17 Dec 2004 00:00:01 GMT <div>Ashok Kumar Nayak</div> In recent years Participatory Irrigation Management as a concept has attracted widespread attention. It has been accepted as state policy in a number of countries. In India, Andhra Pradesh was a pioneering state in implementing the concept Orissa was a late starter but by 2002 had already brought out a suitable legislation. This paper draws on findings of an empirical study of participatory irrigation management in the coastal part of Orissa to argue that the newly adopted management practice could lead to a rise in productivity among the small farmers. This paper also argues on the basis of a rapid rural appraisal that rises in productivity does not necessarily translate to reduction in poverty. https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/11371/ Fri, 31 Dec 2004 00:00:01 GMT <div>Salehin, Khan Mohammad Faizus</div> https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/8278/ Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:01 GMT <div>Cader, Azra Tasnim Adbul</div> https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/9147/ Thu, 01 Dec 2005 00:00:01 GMT <div>Ascholani, Chasan</div> The emergences of new fanner movements taking place in India, Costa Rica, and Senegal are signs of fanners' resistance against new policies on agriculture sector. Their demands which were not land reform like other peasant movements, instead emunerative prices, indicate the newness of these movements. Based on manyresearches, these are triggered by implementation of structural adjusin?-ent programs(SAPs) that promote privatization and market liberalization for many developing countries. Resulting from these programs, farmers find themselves are trapped in markets which are cotrolled by other actors, mainly big companies. https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/9229/ Thu, 01 Dec 2005 00:00:01 GMT <div>Supkar, Rakesh</div> The significance of the rural non-farm sector in the rural economy and total rural incomes is increasingly being emphasized in the recent rural development literature (Ellis, 2000; Lanjouw and Shariff, 2004; Ellis and Freeman, 2005). Recent trends in the rural Indian economy suggest that rural non-farm employment is growing and making a significant contribution to the total incomes of the rural households (Bhalla, 2002). The economic reforms and structural adjustment process undertaken in the country since the early 90s have contributed to reduced significance of agriculture and enhanced the role of non-farm productive activity in the rural economy (Harris-White and Janakarajan 1997, Haggblade and Hazzel 2002). The rise of non-farm economy coincides with the relative reduction in contribution of the agriculture sector to the national GDP, and a trend of movement of labour to urban areas for industrial work. Explaining the rise of non-farm economy in rural areas Start (2001) says 'Declining global terms of trade and population densities above carrying capacity -amongst other factors - present a bleak prospect for smallholder agriculture as a fulltime livelihood for the majority. Likewise, rapid growth in urban employment through labour intensive industrialization has not been realized. The rural non-farm economy(RNFE), which lies between these two sectors and in many countries is growing.' The non-farm sector is being looked at increasingly by policy makers as an important factor in reduction of rural poverty levels both by growth as well as by employment generation and absorption of surplus labour from agriculture (Nayyar and Sharma, 2005). https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/9704/ Thu, 01 Dec 2005 00:00:01 GMT <div>Goldfarb, Lucia Ines</div> The viticulture activity in Mendoza, Argentina, has undergone important changes during the last decades. It has become a competitive and dynamic agro-industrial chain, with solid chances of gaining niches in the world market of fine wines related to new patterns of consumption among the middle- and high-income sectors in developed countries. In the context of adjustment policies and the opening-up of the economy to the international market during the eighties and nineties, as well as through some actors' interest in modifying a model of production already in crisis and creating new forms of profitability by producing high value-added wines, the wine agro-industry shifted towards production for a global market. The complexity of this restructuring process claims for a specific analysis about how a new quality paradigm is socially constructed, since the configuration of these changes includes new forms of resource mobilization, an innovative coordination of interests, and stirs up brand-new conflicts between heterogeneous actors. https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/36908/ Fri, 16 Dec 2005 00:00:01 GMT <div>Ruhamah, Paul</div> Seasonal migration has become an increasingly important part of the livelihood strategies formed and used by smallholders in many rural and especially agricultural economies. It has become one of the main livelihood activities of smallholders during lean agricultural seasons in Chhattisgarh, India. While this activity supplements rurally earned incomes, it also has other effects, and this study points towards some of the social effects, on the migrant as well as on the household and rural community, which result from an absence of some members of the community caused by seasonal migration. Social capital is studied in terms of trust, norms and networks of the migrant and of the community, and the effect of seasonal migration on each of these components is looked at. While trust is barely affected, other aspects of social capital are severely affected by the absence due to migration and some are found to be declining in the countryside anyway. This change in rural society has implications that must be considered to gain a holistic view of migration or to formulate policy regarding migration. https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/11148/ Fri, 30 Dec 2005 00:00:01 GMT <div>D' Amato, Gina Maria</div> The Paper looks at the experiences ofwomen's workers in the Oriente Antioqueno Region (Colombia) and the impacts that their entrance to the cut flower export industry have had over their livelihoods. A code of conduct framed into a CSR initiative is taken as a case study to analyse its relevance in improving women workers conditions. To do this it looks at the global debate of Decent work labour standards and the entrance of global value chains. Moreover there is a link with the socio-political and cultural arena that shapes institutional regimes and local livelihoods. The paper finalizes with a discussion around the importance of including workers and other stakeholders representation in codes, to make them more responsive to local needs, contribute to social dialogue and enhance security of rural livelihoods. https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/14665/ Fri, 30 Dec 2005 00:00:01 GMT <div>Mburu, Moses Mbugua</div> https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/9670/ Fri, 01 Dec 2006 00:00:01 GMT <div>Kamal, Mostafa</div> Bangladesh has extensive floodplains/wetlands which are home to hundreds of species of aquatic plants, birds, wildlife and more importantly enrich in fisheries resources. These wetlands provide critical habitats for millions of migrating birds and are important source of livelihoods and nutrition for millions of rural Bangladesh's poor people and fishermen who are primarily dependent on these wetlands for their livelihoods. The contribution of inland fisheries of Bangladesh to the livelihood of in particular the rural people is historically reflected in the traditional popular saying "fish and rice malce a Bangali (Bangladeshi)". About 70% of rural households undertalce fishing for their subsistence needs (DoF, 2001). https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/9201/ Fri, 01 Dec 2006 00:00:01 GMT <div>Diem Hang, Ho Vu</div> Vietnam shifted to a more liberalized economic growth path in the mid-1980s in the context of the adoption of Doi Moi or Reconstruction growth strategy. This liberalization continued and then gained momentum in the mid-1990s with the ending of the US trade embargo on Vietnam, and promises to continue further with Vietnam's prospective accession to the WTO. One recent disturbing side-effect of Vietnam's economic progress appears to be a weak current account (CA) situation. The current account is possibly the most important component of the balance of payments (BoP), particularly for an export oriented economy like Vietnam, as the current account effectively records all non-capital related money flows into and out of a country. Since the most important of these flows tend to be trade flows, current account is often seen as reflecting a country's competitiveness. https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/9245/ Fri, 01 Dec 2006 00:00:01 GMT <div>Shantiko, Bayuni</div> This research discusses the transformation in customary tenure toward commercialization and appropriation in Olilit village, Tanimbar Islands. The study analyzes several factors leading to the customary institutional change. It also looks at the roles of actors shaping the changes and how the actor mostly the elites usurp the benefit from the process. Since the process of individualization has been a widespread trend and seems to be inevitable in the future, the research suggests the community to think carefully regarding their decision toward 'customary land. Any decisions they made should be based on voluntary with sufficient information at hand. This research also suggests the community to invest themselves in order to deal with the livelihood change after having no access to the land.