- Who controls water resources in rural areas in Malawi?
- B. Kafakoma; C. Silungwe / Eldis Document Store, 2003
- Community Water Sanitation and Health (COMWASH) Project is a Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and Government of Malawi (Gom) funded project which is being implemented in Thyolo and Phalombe districts in southern Malawi...
- Clean Development mechanisms and cross-border power trading
- ECON Pöyry, 2011
- The screening of potential clean development mechanism (CDM) projects within the African Development Bank’s pipeline has identified a number of planned large scale hydropower projects, including ones that will be built primarily...
- The Millennium Development Goals: A Latin American and Caribbean Perspective
- H. Guzman; E. Espindola; R. Bajraj / United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2005
- This paper looks at the differences across countries in Latin American and Caribbean region in terms of their chances of attaining the Goals and, wherever possible, the differences between trends in various segments of the population ...
- Linkages between ICTs and the global food price crisis
- J. H. Valk / International Development Research Centre, 2008
- This study identifies four linkages between ICTs and the global food price crisis, each representing a potential entry point for Acacia. The four entry points that this paper presents: Prevention of the crisis ...
- This paper explores the relations ship between Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and shows how ICTs can play a critical enabling and catalytic role across the UN’s development agenda. It tackles aspects of policy and partnership dialogue in moving forward as well as the impact of technological innovation and the practical application of ICTs in the development context.
- Jeffrey Sachs. 2005
- This paper explores the relations ship between Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and shows how ICTs can play a critical enabling and catalytic role across the UN’s deve...
- Challenges for the Nile Basin region
- T. Oestigaard (ed) / Nile Basin Research Programme, University of Bergen, 2010
- The Nile Basin Research Programme (NBRP), as a strategic, multidisciplinary programme for research and higher education on topics related to the Nile Basin, has had the overall aim to enhance and promote quality research on Nile-relat...
- Is there balance between conservation and consumption of natural resources in Malawi?
- E. Kaunda; O. Chapotoka / Bunda College of Agriculture, 2011
- In a country where over 75% of the families cannot feed themselves, producing on average only 64% of their own food requirements, and where at least 500-1,000 people died of hunger and hunger-related diseases in 2002, managing riverin...
- Examining the effects of poverty in Malawi
- E. Chirwa; N. Junge / Government of Malawi, 2007
- The Government of Malawi (GoM) is undertaking a wide range of reforms in the water sector with the objective of increasing the availability and access of safe water to its people as articulated in the Malawi Growth and Development Str...
- Examining the factors contributing to food security and climate change in the Pacific
- M. Ahmed (ed); J. Maclean (ed); M.A. Sombilla. (ed) / Asian Development Bank, 2011
- The Pacific island governments view climate change as a priority issue, especially in terms of its potential impacts on food security, but need clear directions in addressing both issues. Their agricultural production until the mid-19...
- Sustainable climate adaptation for pastoral Ethiopia
- S. Eriksen (ed); A. Marin (ed) / Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of L, 2011
- A key aim of the Norwegian Development Fund is to increase the adaptive capacity of marginalised rural poor farmers and pastoralists in the South. The focus country of this project study, Ethiopia, has a legacy of variable and u...
- The complex socio-political relations that have developed on the volcanically uncertain island of Montserrat
- K. Haynes / Emergency Management Australia, 2006
- This paper explores the complex socio-political relations which developed on a volcanically uncertain island and which continue to create difficult emergency management challenges by a complex set of economic and political relati...
- The nature of the development process on small islands
- S. A. Kerr / Elsevier, 2005
- This article explores the nature of the development process on small islands and considers this in the context of different interpretations of sustainable development. A case study of the Galapagos is presented which considers the dri...
- Preventing the damages brought on by food and water scarcity
- M. W. Rosegrant; X. Cai; S. A. Cline / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002
- The key messages of this presentation are: Increasing competition for water severely limits irrigation and constrains food production Slow progress ...
- A study of change in the gender dynamics in the Hills Leasehold Forestry and Forage Development Project in Nepal
- Jeannette D. Gurung; Kanchan Lama / International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2009
- This study analyses the gender impact of the Hills Leasehold Forestry and Forage Development Project (HLFFDP) Nepal. The project was situated within a society where gender ideologies that privilege men...
- Water shortages for Palestinians result from discriminatory policies and practices
- Amnesty International, 2009
- Lack of access to adequate, safe and clean water has been a longstanding problem for the Palestinian population of the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). Though exacerbated in recent years by the impact of drought-induced water s...
- Budget support, aid instruments and the environment in Tanzania
- C. Luttrell; I. Pantaleo / Overseas Development Institute [ES], 2008
- A recent evaluation of budget support highlighted that there are challenges in integrating cross cutting issues such as environment into Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers. This paper reviews experience of the transferring of env...
- Balancing rural livelihoods, urban consumption and conservation key to controlling bushmeat hunting
- Noelle Francesca Kumpel / Imperial College, University of London, 2006
- Bushmeat hunting is thought to be becoming increasingly unsustainable in west and central Africa, but true assessment of sustainability and consequently appropriate management, is constrained by poor understanding of cause and effect....
- Policy implications for NTFP commercialization: research from Mexico and Bolivia
- E. Marshall (ed); K. Schreckenberg (ed); A.C Newton (ed) / Overseas Development Institute, 2006
- Commercialization of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) has been widely promoted as an approach to rural development in tropical forest areas. However, donor investments in the development of NTFP resources have often failed to delive...
- The road to sustainable management of NTFP pygeum in the Cameroon Highlands
- A. T. Nsawir; V. Ingram / Forestry Department, FAO, 2007
- Cameroon supports some of the largest populations of the Afromontane hardwood pygeum (Prunus africana), a tree used traditionally for timber, fuel-wood and medicine. It is one of the major income sources for forest based communities i...
- Can non-timber forest product trade resolve problems of development and conservation in the developing world?
- K. Kusters / Ecology and Society, 2006
- This article evaluates the extent to which Non Timber Forest Product (NTFP) trade leads to both livelihood improvement and forest conservation. The analysis is based on a standardised expert-judgment assessment of the livelihood and e...
- Biological Conservation Newsletter
- Newsletter from the Department of Botany at the Smithsonian Institution. Includes news items, recent publications list, conference announcements, etc.
- Global Environment Facility (GEF)
- GEF provides grants and concessional funding for projects programmes which support the global environment and promote sustainable economic growth. Focuses on: climate change; biological diversity; international waters; stratospheric ozone. Program managed by UNEP, UNDP and the World Bank. WWW site includes background information on the program, full text of some GEF documentation, links to relat...
- United Nations [UN] Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED)
- The Conference resulted in the signature of a number of major documents: the Convention on Biological Diversity; Framework Convention on Climate Change; Agreement on Forest Principles; Rio Declaration (see separate entries for information on these and the institutions set up to manage them) and Agenda 21. Follow up actions to the conference are managed by the UN Commission on Sustainable Developm...
- World Resources Institute, Washington DC (WRI)
- WRI is a research and policy institute promoting the responsible use of natural resources through the generation of accurate information on global resources and environmental conditions, the analysis of emerging issues and the development of policy responses. Information services include: (a) World Resources database: IBM-PC disc of statistics taken from the annual publication "World resources...
- Bioline
- Bioline Publications is an online bibliographic service, focusing on microbiology, biotechnology, biodiversity, bioinformatics, biosafety and biopolicy. The service is provided by Bioline Publications in association with the Base de Dados Tropical (BDT), Brazil. It incorporates commercial and not-for-profit journals, as well as reports, newsletters, conference proceedings and books. Accessible via...
- Life Sciences Collection
- Bibliographical database on the life sciences and biosciences, compiled from a number of printed abstracts journals, including: Ecology Abstracts; Animal Behaviour Abstracts; Biotechnology Abstracts. From 1978 to date. Available on Datastar, STN. Also on CDROM (from Silverplatter)
- UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC)
- Collection of worldwide biodiversity data
- LTSN UK Centre for Bioscience
- web based teaching resources for biology
- Biotech
- Discussion list on biotechnology, covering software/hardware issues, announcements, submission of bulletins, exchange of ideas and data.
- GRAIN
- Promotes action against the erosion of agricultural biodiversity
