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  The Millennium Development Goals: A Latin American and Caribbean Perspective

  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 (classified by gender, ethnic group, age group, place of residence and income stratum) as a means of helping to pinpoint the areas in which efforts must be redoubled
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  ICTs and the global food price crisis

  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 Monitoring the crisis Management of the crisis and Study of the crisis
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  Pastoral pathways: climate change adaptation lessons from Ethiopia

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 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 unpredictable rainfall, causing frequent droughts and heavy floods, undermining local as well as national food and water security.  The analysis in this paper is
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  Bioforsk / Norwegian Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research

  Bioforsk conducts applied and specifically targeted research linked to multifunctional agriculture and rural development, plant sciences, environmental protection and natural resource management.
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  Global biofuel expansion and the demand for Brazilian land: intensification versus expansion

  AgEcon Search, 2011

  The rapid increase in global biofuel production and consumption, particularly of ethanol, has an associated derived demand for crops to produce the necessary feedstock. This working paper assess the implications of global biofuel expansion on Brazilian land usage at the regional level.
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  Power to the People? Hydropower, indigenous rights, and popular resistance in Guatemala

  Association for International Water Studies, Norway, 2010

  The debate about hydropower has recently been revitalised in the context of climate change and the large unmet demand for energy in many countries. This study is a contribution to the debate about hydropower development, indigenous rights, and the rights of affected communities in the face of development projects, presenting Guatemala as a case study. Main findings include: 
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  Green hills, blue cities: an ecosystems approach to water resources management for African cities

  Arendal Maps & Graphics Library, UNEP/GRID, 2011

  In light of its rapid urban growth, Africa is likely to experience some of the most severe impacts of climate change – particularly when it comes to water and food security, which places enormous pressure on growing urban populations.
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  Banking for the future: savings, security and seeds: a short study of community seed banks in Bangladesh, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Honduras, India, Nepal, Thailand, Zambia and Zimbabwe

  Development Fund, Norway, 2011

  The aim of seed banks is to increase food security and contribute to the continued utilisation of locally important genetic diversity. This paper is sought to document the experiences of community seed banks (CSBs) in a number of developing countries. The paper concludes that: 
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  Studies of the waterscape of Kilimanjaro, Tanzania: water management in hill furrow irrigation

  Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2011

  The main objective of this thesis is to contribute knowledge of water management and water use in hill furrow irrigation in Kilimanjaro region in Tanzania. The paper analyses the waters of the region, conceptualised as a waterscape constituted by material, institutional and ideational aspects. The study underlines the following facts: 
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  Results of development cooperation through Norwegian NGOs in East Africa: volume II

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2011

  This paper presents a number of case studies that shed light on the overall effectiveness of Norwegian aid to East Africa’s countries.

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