Catalogue description Overseas Development Administration and successors: Natural Resources Division and successors: Registered Files (NR Series)

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Details of OD 140
Reference: OD 140
Title: Overseas Development Administration and successors: Natural Resources Division and successors: Registered Files (NR Series)
Description:

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.
Date: 1986-1994
Arrangement:

These files are arranged in file reference order.

Related material:

Files created prior to 1987 can be located within series:

OD 45

OD 58
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: NRA, NRB, NRC, NRD, NRE, NRF, NRG, NRH and NRJ
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department for International Development, 1997-

Overseas Development Administration, 1979-1997
Physical description: 40 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2020 Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

From 2017 Department for International Development
Accumulation dates: The paper file series started in 1987 and ended in 2006
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

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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