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  Water, livelihoods and growth: concept paper

  Research-inspired Policy and Practice Learning in Ethiopia and the Nile Region, 2007

  With a focus on RIPPLE (Research-inspired Policy and Practice Learning in Ethiopia and the Nile Region), this paper looks at research-inspired policy and practice learning in Ethiopia and the Nile.
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  Resurrecting the vestiges of a developmental state in Malawi? Reflections and lessons from the 2005/2006 fertilizer subsidy program

  Future Agricultures Consortium, 2007

  The 2005/2006 fertiliser subsidy programme is widely cited as the most significant policy achievement of the Malawian government since the advent of a democratic political dispensation over a decade ago. This is especially in view of the fact that the programme was implemented against the advice of a whole gamut of technical experts and development partners.
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  The north-western Sahara aquifer system: concerted management of a transboundary water basin

  Sahara and Sahel Observatory, 2008

  The North-western Sahara aquifer system (NWSAS) shared by Algeria, Libya and Tunisia contains considerable water reserves; however, it is largely unrenewable and not fully exploitable.
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  Innovation for sustainable development: local case studies from Africa

  Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, 2008

  This report aims to shed light on the way innovative solutions have arisen to address local sustainable development challenges, examining the determinants of success and the scope for replication. The report focuses on the African experience, and contributes to the documentation for the 16th and 17th sessions of the Commission on Sustainable Development.
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  The Great Green Wall initiative for the Sahara and the Sahel

  Sahara and Sahel Observatory, 2008

  Desertification has had an acute impact in Africa, particularly in the Community of the Sahel-Saharan States (CEN-SAD), which is characterised by climate ranging from hyper-arid to dry sub-humid. The local communities and their livelihoods are heavily dependent on the increasingly fragile natural resources.
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  Cereal offenders: how the G8 has contributed to the global food crisis, and what they can do to stop it

  ActionAid International, 2008

  Three years after the G8 pledged to ‘make poverty history’, the current global food crisis has left close to a quarter of the world’s population lacking basic food security. In this policy brief, Actionaid calls on G8 leaders to take bold steps in Hokkaido to prevent world hunger spiralling further out of control.
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  Environment and development decision making in Africa 2006-2008

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, 2008

  The African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) is the primary ministerial level forum for environment and development issues in Africa. It has helped launch various environmental initiatives at the regional level, and these have greatly influenced environmental policy in Africa.
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  Accounting for the ecological dimension in participatory research and development: lessons learned from Indonesia and Madagascar

  Ecology and Society, 2008

  At the interface of environmental and social issues, not enough is known about the links between policies, regionally important biophysical factors, local natural resource management sustainability,
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  Innovation system approach to agricultural development: policy implications for agricultural extension delivery in Nigeria

  2008

  A sustainable and dynamic approach to agricultural development has remained of great concern to the Nigerian government and a priority for discourse in the policy arena. However, past efforts have largely focused on public research and extension institutions as the sole source of innovation/knowledge required to trigger development in the agricultural sector.
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  How the water flows: a typology of irrigation systems in Afghanistan

  Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2008

  This paper develops and presents a typology of irrigation systems in Afghanistan. The report is intended to enhance knowledge of irrigation methods and management with the aim of improving system performance and productivity.

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