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Series
Overseas Development Administration and successors: Natural Resources Division and...
Catalogue reference: OD 140
What's it about?
OD 140
This series contains records covering sectoral policy on agriculture, rural development, co-operatives and institutions and environment. The series also includes records covering support for international agricultural and environmental research,...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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OD 140
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Title (The name of the record)
- Overseas Development Administration and successors: Natural Resources Division and successors: Registered Files (NR Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1986-1994
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records covering sectoral policy on agriculture, rural development, co-operatives and institutions and environment. The series also includes records covering support for international agricultural and environmental research, and research into renewable natural resources.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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These files are arranged in file reference order.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Files created prior to 1987 can be located within series: OD 45 OD 58
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
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NRA, NRB, NRC, NRD, NRE, NRF, NRG, NRH and NRJ
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Department for International Development, 1997-1997
- Overseas Development Administration, 1979-1997
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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40 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2020 Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
From 2017 Department for International Development
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Resources
- Aid and development
- Farming
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
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The paper file series started in 1987 and ended in 2006
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Series is accruing
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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File prefixes in this series were used by Natural Resources Division from 1987 to 1997 and continued in use in DFID with the Rural Livelihoods and Environment Division and then the Policy Division: Growth and Livelihoods Section.
The creating departments within the Natural Resource Division for these files are defined as follows:
Overseas Development Administration (ODA):
1987 to 1991 Natural Resources Division;1992 to 1993 Natural Resources and Environment Department;1994 to 1997 Environment Policy Department, Natural Resources Policy and Advisory Department, Natural Resources Research Department.
Department for International Development (DFID):
1998 to 2000 Rural Livelihoods and Environment Division: Environment Policy Department, Natural Resources Research Department;2001 to 2003 Rural Livelihoods Department, Environment Policy Department;2004 to 2006 Policy Division: Growth and Livelihoods Section.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14676073/
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