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    Forest resource development in Korea

    Korea Development Institute, 2014
    During the colonial period in the early 20th Century, around three years of the Korean War that broke out in 1950 after the establishment of the Republic of Korea in 1948 and the postwar period of political and social turmoil, the forests on the Korean Peninsula faced severe devastation.
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    Strategies for managing vulnerability of women vegetable farmers in the central region of Ghana

    2015
    Women constitute an important part of food systems around the world, as evidenced by the fact that they produce an estimated 70% of subsistence crops, and the fundamental role they play in processing and distribution.
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    In-service training policy in Korea

    Korea Development Institute, 2014
    As the importance of training In-Service workers was emphasized in the late 1980s, the standard for imposing the training obligation was changed from the number of employees to the total payroll. However, In-Service worker training did not get much attention before the Asian financial crisis struck in the late 1990s.
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    Seeds of adaptation: climate change, crop diversification, and the role of women farmers

    2015
    Around the world, women farmers are taking a leading role in implementing strategies aimed at crop variety conservation and diversification, with the goal of strengthening local climate change adaptation capacities. That is the message conveyed in this gender brief by the Center for International Forestry Research.
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    The role of rural women farmers in household food security in Cross River State, Nigeria

    2015
    Women play a key role in ensuring food security, yet in Nigeria rural women farmers have suffered long-term marginalisation in the nation’s affairs. In light of this fact, this study seeks to determine and better understand the roles rural women farmers play as household food producers, as conservators of agrobiodiversity, and as food processors in the Cross River State.
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    Empowering drylands women

    Drylands Development Centre, UNDP, 2014
    The Integrated Drylands Development Programme (IDDP) is a global UNDP initiative to promote sustainable development in the drylands, and advance the implementation of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification. This topic brief highlights the important role that gender plays in this context of sustainable development, in particular the role of women in the Arab States and Africa.
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    Gender and water policies in Africa: synthesis report

    Global Water Partnership, 2015
    This study examines the extent to which the African Ministers Council on Water (AMCOW) gender policy and strategy has been implemented in national states and transboundary river basin agreements across Africa.
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    Women as agents of change in water: reflections on experiences from the field

    UN Women, 2015
    The Women for Water Partnership (WfWP) currently includes 26 women’s networks covering around 100 countries, predominantly in the developing world.
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    Rethinking government's role in urban infrastructure

    1999
    By 2020, it is estimated that more than half of the population of developing countries would be urban-based. The demographic shift implies an increased demand for urban transport, water and wastewater services, basic education and health, sanitation and waste disposal facilities. Clearly, urban growth has further increased the demand for basic infrastructure.
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    Microinsurance in the Philippines: policy and regulatory Issues and Challenges

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2007
    Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) and similar organizations that serve the poor have come to recognize that their low-income clients do not only need loans but a variety of financial services as well, incl uding insurance. Low-income clients face a variety of risks, e.g., accidental death and injury, illness, loss of property arising from natural calamities to name a few.

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