| Institutions - Social capital |
| Rural household income strategies and interactions with the local institutional environment: a methodological framework |
| This article reports on a research programme on rural household income strategies and interactions with the local institutional environment. Its focus on both the household and local institutions explores the income strategies of rural households and the manifold ways in which households - and members of the household - are linked to different institutional settings. The purpose of this pilot proj... more |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/ROdirect/ROan0021.htm |
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| Institutions - Social capital |
| Institutions and organising practices: Conceptual discussion |
| This document presents a
discussion of the ways in which institutions are defined in different debates on development issues. It argues that the study of
institutions should be combined with the study of organising practices based on recent anthropological insights. |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/ROdirect/ROan0020.htm |
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| Institutions - Social capital |
| Financing Economic Self-reliance and Member Participation in Farmer Organizations in Kenya |
| This paper focuses on the problem of mobilizing increased member capital within farmer co-operatives in Africa -with particular reference to Kenya's co-operative dairy and coffee sectors- and provides some observations regarding the strengths and weaknesses of various instruments for doing this within the Kenya context. |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/ROdirect/ROan0017.htm |
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| Institutions - Social capital |
| Rural poverty: population dynamics, local institutions and access to resources |
| This discussion paper analyses two examples of changing
institution-resource access relationships in Africa and Latin America. The Africa
case highlights the resource endowments and problems associated with the
participation of individuals in multiple institutions, whereas the Latin America
case focuses on the changes in a sin... more |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/ROdirect/ROan0016.htm |
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| Institutions - Social capital |
| Institutions - Public institutions |
| Decentralization process and traditional powers: typologies of policies |
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| French: http://www.fao.org/sd/frdirect/ROan0014.htm |
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| Institutions - Social capital |
| Challenges before cooperatives in South Asia - Building a comparative advantage |
| Cooperatives are currently facing a number of crises: crisis of capital, crisis of ideology, crisis of credibility and crisis of management. The question that the article intends to answer is: why cooperatives? This article was extracted from the study, "Cooperatives in the new environments: Role of the Registrar of Cooperative Societies in South Asia (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka)", ... more |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/rodirect/ROan0013.htm |
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| Institutions - Social capital |
| Institutions - Public institutions |
| The state and the market: The missing link |
| This paper argues that the debate over state versus markets is leading to another discussion: the interaction between the market and the institutions of both civil society and the state. |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/rodirect/ROan0010.htm |
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| Institutions - Social capital |
| Pastoral Livestock Development in Central Asia |
| According to this paper: "Economic restructuring has led to a fall in the living standards of herding families. The sudden end of state subsidies, the gradual
disintegration of state and collective farms, and continuing production declines have worsened the conditions of the population -
especially that of the vulnerable groups - and poverty and unemployment have become acute social problems." |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/rodirect/ROan0009.htm |
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| Institutions - Social capital |
| The gender dimension in rural cooperatives |
| From a paper commissioned by FAO for the Centennial Meeting of the International Cooperative Alliance, Manchester, UK, September, 1995.The article address the questions why is female participation so low in cooperatives, especially in rural cooperatives, and how cooperatives can help women's integration by paying attention to their basic and strategic needs |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/rodirect/ROan0008.htm |
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| Institutions - Social capital |
| Toward a new cooperative system in Viet Nam |
| The development of a genuine co-operative network is a long-term process. It requires a continuous participatory dialogue within
the co-operative and group movement and with external agencies, that may provide assistance supplementary to internally mobilised
resources. |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/rodirect/ROan0005.htm |
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