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    Getting smart and scaling up: responding to the impact of organized crime on governance in developing countries

    Center on International Cooperation, New York University, 2013
    The development landscape is rapidly changing and new centres of economic dynamism are emerging. At the same time, organized criminal activity, including illicit trafficking and financial flows, is increasing in these same settings, often fuelling tension or violence among elites or other groups vying for control of illicit markets.
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    Collective Activism: The Domestic Violence Bill becoming law in Ghana

    BRILL, 2008
    This article charts the influences of collective activism and in particular the National Coalition on Domestic Violence Legislation, on the progress of the Domestic Violence Bill in Ghana. The coalition is made up of “scholars, activists, policy makers [and] has been a really grassroots effort to foster social justice and human rights” (2008:417).
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    Collective Activism: The Domestic Violence Bill becoming law in Ghana

    BRILL, 2008
    This article charts the influences of collective activism and in particular the National Coalition on Domestic Violence Legislation, on the progress of the Domestic Violence Bill in Ghana. The coalition is made up of “scholars, activists, policy makers [and] has been a really grassroots effort to foster social justice and human rights” (2008:417).
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    REDD+ and tenure rights

    Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo, Norway, 2012
    KEY MESSAGES REDD+ is to be introduced into areas with complex, conflictual tenancy claims concerning potential agricultural land and forests, but it is also an arena for introducing new interests, stakeholders and power relations. REDD+ might foster local processes that can help clarify and strengthen property and tenure rights, but it may also exacerbate local land conflicts.
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    Increasing cocoa productivity through improved nutrition

    Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, 2012
    Cocoa is cultivated in more than 40 countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America. Over 90% of global cocoa production is cultivated by an estimated 5.5 million smallholders and most live below the poverty line and lack access to nutritious food.
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    Determinants of choice of indigenous climate related strategies by smallholder farmers in northern Ghana

    British Journal of Environment and Climate Change, 2013
    This study assesses the determinants of choice of indigenous climate related strategies by smallholder farmers in northern Ghana. The study uses primary data obtained through community focus group discussions and household surveys, and subjected to the Multinomial Logit regression model.
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    Analytical frameworks for assessing ICT and agribusiness startup ecosystems: for application in Ghana and Kenya

    Economic and Private Sector PEAKS, 2013
    DFID is exploring the analytical frameworks used to assess the support market system for startup businesses in the ICT and agribusiness sectors. The review of analytical frameworks will help inform a Terms of Reference (ToR) for carrying out startup ecosystem assessments in Ghana and Kenya.
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    Mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions in livestock production: a review of technical options for non-CO2 emissions

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2013
    This report presents a unique and exhaustive review of current knowledge on mitigation practices for greenhouse gas emissions in the livestock sector. It focuses specifically on non-CO2 emissions from enteric fermentation and manure management.
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    Population ageing in Ghana: research gaps and the way forward

    Journal of Aging Research, 2010
    Although Ghana can still be classified as a having youthful population, reductions in fertility and mortality have resulted in increase in both the proportion and absolute number of elderly population. With the proportion of the elderly population currently at 7.2 percent, Ghana has one of the highest proportions of persons aged 60+ years in sub-Saharan Africa.
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    Joto Afrika: Climate Communication for Adaptation

    Arid Lands Information Network, 2013
    Produced by the Adaptation Learning Programme of Care International, amongst others, this special issue of Joto Afrika presents six case studies of innovative approaches to communicating climate information to farmers and pastoralists in Kenya, Niger and Ghana. Here are the six case studies, together with a few highlights of the results.

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