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September 2008

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• Mauritius: eradicating rural poverty in paradise
• Rodrigues Island, Mauritius: Soaring food and fuel prices eat into poor people’s livelihoods
• Community centres: a catalyst for bringing people together
• Casting the net beyond the lagoon
• A loan, a lamb and a livelihood in Tunisia
• Living with elephants: human-wildlife conflict in the Mount Kenya area
• Reversing environmental degradation through cooperation in Morocco
• Self-sufficiency and beyond: resource management in North-east India
• Tailor-made: farmer-friendly financial services transform lives in northern Bangladesh
• Remittances: spreading the benefits in El Salvador

August 2008

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• Empowering farmers in Tanzania through the warehouse receipt system
• In Argentina, cooperatives show there is strength in numbers

July 2008

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• El Salvador
• Mexico

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• Supporting smallholders is crucial to food security
• Conserving water, boosting incomes in Jordan’s Yarmouk valley

June 2008

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• Risks pay off in Colombia microenterprise programme
• Going organic to revitalize dying cocoa industry in São Tomé and Príncipe

May 2008

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• Bolivia

April 2008

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• Strategic partnerships breathe life and hope into an impoverished community in Brazil

March 2008

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• Chad
• Romania

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• Mount Kenya – recharging Kenya's largest water tower by protecting the environment
• BBC World Debate: Food – Who pays the price?

February 2008

Rural institutions and rural poverty

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• Zero-poverty becomes a reality thanks to effective collaboration in Sichuan, China
• From subsistence farming to profit: the benefits of agro-wells in Sri Lanka

January 2008

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• Biogas: helping poor farmers help the planet and themselves

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• Kyrgyzstan

 

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