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The Participatory Market Chain Approach (PMCA) was developed by the Papa Andina Regional Initiative of the International Potato Center (CIP) to improve the competitiveness of potato market chains and small potato producers in the Andean region of South America. Beginning in 2005, CIP and Papa Andina partnered with the Regional Potato and Sweetpotato Improvement Network in Eastern and Central...
The CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF) is an international, multi-institutional research initiative with a strong emphasis on parternships, adapative management and participation. The program focuses in improving how water is managed and used for improved food production.
Over the last six years, and based on more 68 projects carried out throughout the world, the main...
This was the first Issue of the African Mountains Newsletter. This quarterly Newsletter covers news, events, technologies, innovations and all other developments within Mountain areas in Africa. It is intended to contribute to sustainable mountain development within the African region by facilitating information exchange and mutual support among the institutions and individuals either working...
Food security for many Africans requires exploiting a wide variety of resources. People living on the coastal savanna of southern Mozambique use the landscape’s diversity to supplement domestic food production. This photo essay highlights the variety of resources used and problems faced in achieving food security in two communities in Matutúine District, Mozambique. Although the focus of essay...
We engage in project and programme management, collect data for livelihoods analyses as entry points to development management, produce multi media including abstract paintings, photo-digital arts, designs for textiles and fabric, wall paper etc. We are also experts in project and programme management, project planning design and appraisal, radio and Tv productions, commercial jingles and...
Conserving mountain biodiversity and its indigenous tribe’s cultural diversity is hard mission especially when combine with community’s seeking for modern technologies especially their new generation which they has been lost their traditional knowledge on seeking more new easiest technologies and at end they lost the last rapport with their mother land. And depending on this there is urgent...
This report highlights the impact of the global financial crisis on financial flows to the water sector in Sub-Saharan Africa. Their goal was to unpack how the water sector is presently financed and then trace the impact of the crisis on these financing sources.
The purpose of this report is to provide an analysis of the impact of the global financial crisis (“the crisis”) on financial...
The APF has become a key forum at a senior political level for discussing and monitoring policy issues, strategies and priorities in support of Africa's development. Its members; Africa, G8, OECD and other development partners all work together as equals in the forum – and ensure synergies and coherence with other international fora. Their mission is to strengthen partnership efforts in...
MRD, the leading interdisciplinary and development-oriented journal specifically devoted to the world’s mountain regions, has now transitioned to an innovative, online, and open-access form and reaches an even broader public beyond the mountain community. Founded in 1981, MRD advances knowledge of crucial environmental, social and economic issues, within the framework of a sustainable...
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