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Science and technology have long been recognised as essential driving forces in the development process. With the adoption of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), countries have emphasised the need to advance its crucial technology transfer provisions.
This report presents abstracts of poster presentations on protected areas and technology transfer and cooperation presented at...
This policy brief is designed to help policymakers and practitioners understand the financial services needed by the poor. It is framed within lessons learned from a five-year IFPRI research programme that examined, among other issues, the roles government should play in providing financial services to meet the needs of the poor. Insights presented here are based on a series of detailed...
This policy brief summarises lessons learned from IFPRI's multicountry programme on rural finance and household food security with regard to the poors’ demand for financial services. The lessons are derived from detailed household surveys conducted in nine countries of Asia and Africa: Bangladesh, Cameroon, China, Egypt, Ghana, Madagascar, Malawi, Nepal and Pakistan.
This collection of policy briefs cover research results from a multicountry research program on rural finance policies for food security of the poor, 1994-2000. It offers lessons learned from IFPRI´s programme on rural finance and household food security with regard to the poors’ demand for financial services. The lessons are derived from detailed household surveys conducted in...
This report presents information on the credit constraints that poor rural households face in nine countries of Asia and Africa (Bangladesh, Cameroon, China, Egypt, Ghana, Madagascar, Malawi, Nepal and Pakistan).
It uses this information to make the case for appropriate public intervention in strengthening rural financial markets and draws conclusions about areas where public resources...
This publication, the first in a series of reports covering the state of the information society on an annual basis, focuses on the theme of participation. The report has three interrelated goals: surveying the state of the field of ICT policy at the local and global levels; encouraging critical debate; and strengthening networking and advocacy for a just, inclusive information society. It...
Water is in the air we breathe and beneath the ground we walk on. The very substance of life, it makes up as much as 60 percent of the human body. And yet, for one billion people there is such a thing as life without water. These are the people seen in Dry - those who live in the dry lands of Africa, Asia, the Pacific, and the Americas, eking out an existence at once remarkable and mundane...
The CCAA program and IDRC's Ecohealth program are jointly supporting a research and capacity-building initiative to explore the interconnections between water, health, and climate change. Eight research teams from institutions in West and North Africa have taken part in a project proposal development process, involving training, support, and feedback from IDRC program staff. CCAA will invest a...
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