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- P. Ninô de Carvalho (ed) / Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2012
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- National REDD+ Strategy Development and Implementation Process in Tanzania. Mid Term Review. Final Report
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- The Norwegian Government funded REDD+ project portfolio in Tanzania is creating significant positive results across Tanzania. Along with the research project on climate change and a selection of pilot projects, the REDD+ Policy Project is h...
- Evaluation of Norway’s Bilateral Agricultural Support to Food Security
- Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2013
- The purpose of this evaluation was “to assess to what extent Norwegian funds for agriculture have contributed to food security, with a view to get recommendations for future support”. The period under evaluation was 2005-2011. The evaluatio...
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- This report is a contribution to the development policy debate. It shows that it is a too narrow approach to limit the targets of development policy to growth or to lifting a population above an artificial poverty line. A clear prioritizati...
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