Warehouse Receipt Systems

Coulter, J.P. (2005) Making the transition to a market-based grain marketing system. Paper delivered at World Bank/DFID international workshop, Washington DC, 28 February to 1 March 2005 and due to be published in 2006 by the World Bank. [PDF 282Kb]

 

Coulter, J.P. (2004) Building a missing "Public Good" into agricultural commodity trade. United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. Expert Meeting Papers, pages 111 - 113. Weblink

 

Onumah, G.E. (2004) Promoting Innovation in commodity-based financing: has the "public" any role? Lessons from Zambia's Warehouse Receipt (WR) System. UNCTAD. United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. Expert Meeting Papers pages 114 - 118. Weblink

 

Onumah, G. (2003) Improving access to rural finance through regulated warehouse receipt systems in Africa. Paper presented at conference “Paving the Way forward for Rural Finance”. Washington D.C. Weblink

 

Coulter, J.P. and Onumah, G.E. (2002) The role of warehouse receipt systems in enhanced commodity marketing and rural livelihoods in Africa. Food Policy, Vol. 27, No. 4. Weblink

Marketing Systems and Market Access

Kleih, U., Viryak, S., Kanika, U. (2006) Guidelines to Improve Access to Microfinance by Poor Fishing, Processing, and Trading Communities in Cambodia. [PDF 353Kb]

 

Davis, J. (2005) How can the poor benefit from the growing markets for high value agricultural products? Keynote speech for GFAR/CGIAR International Workshop, Cali, Colombia, 3-5 October. Weblink

 

Robbins, P., Bikande, F., Ferris, S., Hodges, R., Kleih, Okoboi, G and T. Wandschneider (2004) Advice manual for the organisation of collective marketing activities by small-scale farmers. Chatham, UK: Natural Resources Institute. ISBN 0 85954 565 2. [PDF 1.71Mb]

 

Bostock, T., Greenhalgh, P. and Kleih, U. (2004) Policy Research - implications of liberalization of fish trade for developing countries: synthesis report. Chatham: Natural Resources Institute. ISBN 0 85954 560-1. Weblink; Project website

 

Kleih, U., Kaira, C., Iga, H. and Kwamusi (2004) Rural transport and livelihoods in Uganda. Uganda Journal of Agricultural Sciences, Vol 9, No. 1, 56 – 63. Uganda: NARO. ISSN 1026-0919. Weblink

 

Kleih, U., Okoboi, G., Janowski, M. (2004) Farmers’ and traders’ sources of market information in Laria district. Uganda Journal of Agricultural Sciences, Vol 9, No. 1, 693 – 700. Uganda: NARO. ISSN 1026-0919. Weblink

 

Natural Resources Institute (2004) Prospects for Sustainable Tree Crop Development in Sub Saharan Africa. Policy Series 17. Chatham: Natural Resources Institute. [PDF 156Kb]

 

Ashok, M.S., Clucas, I.J., Greenhalgh, P., Oudwater, N., Prasad, D., Salagrama, V., Simon, G., Supkar, R. and Vivekanandan (2003) Globalisation and international seafood legislation: the effect on poverty in India. CD-Rom ISBN 0 85954 553.

 

Kleih, U., Greenhalgh, P., Oudwater, N. (2003) A guide to the analysis of fish marketing systems using a combination of sub-sector analysis and the sustainable livelihoods approach. Chatham: Na11 March, 2008

 

Bedford A., Blowfield M. E., Burnett D.G. and Greenhalgh P. (2002) Value chains: lessons from the Kenya tea and Indonesia cocoa sectors. The Resource Centre for the Social Dimensions of Business Practice (Resource Centre). Report 3. [PDF 420Kb]

 

Natural Resources Institute (2003) Small producers in export horticulture: a guide to good practice. CD-Rom. ISBN 0 85954 547 4. Weblink

Natural Resources Ethical Trade

Anne Tallontire, Catherine Dolan, Sally Smith, and Stephanie Barrientos (2005) Reaching the marginalised? Gender value chains and ethical trade in African horticulture. Development in Practice Vol. 15, Numbers 3 & 4 - June 2005. Abstract

 

Smith, S., Auret, D., Barrientos, S., Dolan, C., Kleinbooi, K., Njobvu, C., Opondo, M. and Tallontire, A. (2004) Ethical trade in African horticulture: gender, rights and participation. Institute of Development Studies. IDS Working Paper 223.
ISBN 1 85864 833 5. Weblink

 

Stephanie Barrientos, Catherine Dolan, Anne Tallontire (2003) A gendered value chain approach to codes of conduct in African horticulture. World Development Vol. 31, Issue 9, Pages 1511-1526.

 

Tallontire, Anne. (2002) Challenges facing fair trade and ethical sourcing: which way now? Small Enterprise Development, pp 12-24, September.

 

Nelson V., Tallontire, A. and Collinson, C. (2002) Assessing the benefits of ethical trade schemes in cocoa (Ecuador) and Brazil nuts (Peru) for forest dependent people and their livelihoods. International Forestry Review 4 (2) pp. 99-109.

Rural Non-Farm Economy

Davis, J.R. (2004) The Rural Non-Farm Economy, Livelihoods and their Diversification: Issues and Options. Chatham: Natural Resources Institute. ISBN: 0 85954 563-6. [PDF 278 Kb]

 

Davis, J.R., Bezemer D.J., Janowski, M. and Wandschneider, T. (2004) The rural non-farm economy and poverty alleviation in Armenia, Georgia and Romania: a synthesis of findings. Chatham: Natural Resources Institute. ISBN: 0 85954 559-8.

 

Dasgupta, N., Kleih, U., Marter, A., Wandschneider, T. (2004) Policy initiatives for strengthening rural economic development in India: case studies from Madhya Pradesh and Orissa. Chatham: Natural Resources Institute. ISBN: 0 85954 558-X. [PDF 325Kb]

 

Davis, J.R. and Proctor, F. (2004) Supporting access to rural non farm employment and income diversification: India and Uganda - case studies. CD-ROM. Chatham: Natural Resources Institute. ISBN: 0 85954 5555.

 

Davis, J.R. and Proctor, F. (2004) Supporting access to rural non farm employment and income diversification: transition economies – case studies. CD–ROM. Chatham: Natural Resources Institute. ISBN: 0 85954 5563.

 

Davis, J.R., Bezemer D.J. (2004) The Rural Non-Farm Economy in Developing Countries and Transition Economies Key Emerging and Conceptual Issues. Chatham: Natural Resources Institute. ISBN:0 85954 557 1. [PDF 220 Kb]

 

Davis, J.R (2003) Pro-poor urban policies: natural resources in the livelihoods of the urban poor. Public Service Review, Winter 2003, 103 -105. Weblink

 

Davis, J.R., Schrieder, G. and Thomson, K. (2002) Financial policy for the Romanian agri-food system, in Thomson, K and Davidova, S. (eds) Romanian Agriculture in Transition Toward the EU. Lanham MD: Lexington Books. ISBN 0 7391 0518 3.

Microfinance, Investment, Credit and Savings

Marr, A. and Chancellor, T.C.B. (2005) How can the poor benefit from private investment in agricultural research? A case study from Bolivia. Development in Practice, vol.15, no.3&4. Abstract | ID21 article

 

Marr, A. (2003). A challenge to the orthodoxy concerning microfinance and poverty reduction. Journal of Microfinance. Vol 5, No. 2. Weblink

 

Marr, A. (2002) Studying group dynamics: an alternative analytical framework for the study of microfinance impacts on poverty reduction. Journal of International Development, vol.14, no.4, pp 511-534. Weblink

 

Marr, A. (2002) Microfinance and poverty reduction: the problematic experience of communal banking in Peru. SOAS Working Papers 122. Weblink

 

Marr, A. (2002) Studying group dynamics. SOAS Working Papers 121, SOAS: London, UK. Weblink

Enterprise Development: Environment and energy issues

 

Dasgupta, N. (2003) Benefits of improved rice husk combustion. DFID-Energy Newsletter No. 17. Weblink

 

Dasgupta, N. (2002) Small is not always beautiful: environmental Issues and small industries, in: H. Katrak and R. Strange (eds.) Small Enterprise in Developing and Transitional Economies. Palgrave UK. ISBN: 0-333-96864-6.

Extension, Training, Distance Learning and Curriculum Development

Coote, C. (2004) Current Status of vocational distance learning in agricultural sciences in the EU Countries. Report 7 of the Leonardo da Vinci pilot project “Professional Training of Teachers in biological and Agricultural Sciences for Rural Areas”. Weblink

 

Butterworth, R. R., Adolph, B.A. and Pound, B. (2004) Experiences of packing research outputs into extensions materials. Uganda Journal of Agricultural Sciences, Vol 9, No. 1, 111 – 118. ISSN 1026-0919. Weblink

Other

Hodges, R.J., Hall, A.J., Jayaraj, K., Jaiswal, P., Potdar, N. and Yogand, B. (2000) Quality changes in farm-stored grain grown in the wet or dry season in southern India - a technical and social study. Pp. 333-345 in: Johnson, G.I., Le Van To, Nguyen Duy Duc and Webb, M.C. (eds), Proceedings of the 19th ASEAN / 1st APEC Seminar on Postharvest Technology, 9-12 November 1999, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. ACIAR Proceedings No. 100.