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    The role of gender in managing biodiversity and agriculture

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Genetic diversity is disappearing: 75 percent of today’s food comes from 12 plants and five animal species, and rice, maize and wheat contribute nearly 60 percent of the calories and proteins obtained by humans from plants. Conservation policies must recognise that men and women have different knowledge about plants and animals.
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    Education access and retention for educationally marginalised children: innovations in social protection

    Mobile Task Team on the Impact of HIV/AIDS on Education, 2005
    This report looks at the effectiveness of social protection programmes for educationally marginalised children (EMC) in Eastern and Southern Africa.
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    Understanding rural telephone use

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Mobile telephone networks in most low income countries have expanded enormously. Many people, even in poor communities, now regularly make calls. But what difference do telephones make to people’s lives? And are they important for development?
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    Is cash the best way to assist poor and vulnerable people?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    In the face of chronic poverty, food insecurity and increasing HIV and AIDS in eastern and southern Africa, there is growing recognition of the importance of cash transfers for reaching vulnerable children and households. A variety of cash transfer schemes are being piloted. Should they be scaled-up?
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    Can a workshop change stigma?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Irrational fears and judgements, misinformation and traditional beliefs fuel stigma against people living with HIV and AIDS. Although policy change and advocacy are important for creating an environment free of stigma, individual behaviour change is equally important.
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    A new agenda to eradicate poverty in Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Over 75 million more Africans lived in poverty at the end of the 1990s than a decade earlier. Increasing aid and reforming trade through international campaigns and donor programmes is not working. The role of the state must be changed if poverty in Africa is to be reduced.
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    Tackling climate change and aid in Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Climate change is already affecting many developing countries. In Africa, over 70 percent of workers rely on small-scale farming dependent on direct rainfall. Even small changes to weather patterns can threaten food security and health. These impacts present a huge challenge to the coordination of aid efforts and the design of development policies.
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    Liberalised cotton markets in Africa: what could bring success?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Cotton is an important crop for many sub-Saharan African countries. In west Africa the cotton sectors were, until recently, managed as state monopolies, while in southern and eastern Africa they were liberalised around a decade ago. Finding a balance between competition and coordination is central to the success of cotton liberalisation.
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    The economic impact of telecommunications on rural livelihoods and poverty reduction: a study of rural communities in India (Gujarat), Mozambique and Tanzania

    Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation, 2005
    Aimed at a policy audience this paper looks at the use of various communications technologies in villages in Gujarat, Mozambique and Tanzania.
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    Analysing the problem of unsustainable health information systems in less developed economies: case studies from Tanzania and Mozambique

    Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway, 2005
    This working paper, published by the Department for Informatics at the University of Oslo, examines donor-supported health information systems (HIS) implemented in Tanzania and Mozambique, in order to analyse the factors affecting sustainability of such systems and to suggest ways of making them more sustainable.

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