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  Climate change: impact on agriculture and costs of adaptation

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2009

  Climate change, together with global population and income growth, is a major threat to food security in the world. This food policy report presents research results which quantify climate change impact, assess the consequences for food security and estimate the investment required to offset the negative effects on human wellbeing.
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  Strategic Foresight Group

  Strategic Foresight Group seeks to undertake forward-looking research in geopolitical, economic, technological and societal changes. Their research examines future trends and discontinuities in s
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  UNECE policy brief on ageing 1: mainstreaming ageing

  Project on Population Ageing, Economic Commission for Europe, 2009

  This policy brief looks at how governments can integrate ageing-related issues into all policy fields in order to bring societies and economies in harmony with demographic change. It also addresses the ways in which all age groups can be equally involved in designing, implementing and evaluating ageing-related policies and programmes.
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  Patterns of information use and exchange: case studies of researchers in the life sciences

  Research Information Network, 2009

  This report by the RIN and the British Library provides an insight into how information is used by researchers across life sciences. It describes research which sought to capture the day-to-day patterns of information use in seven UK research teams from a wide range of disciplines.
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  Research Information Network (RIN)

  The Research Information Network is a policy unit funded by the UK higher education funding councils, the seven research councils and the three national libraries. 
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  Helping researchers become policy entrepreneurs

  Research and Policy in Development, ODI, 2009

  Donors spend billions of dollars on development research each year, but what is the impact on policy? This Briefing Paper summarises ODI’s work on understanding how policy processes operate in the real world, as part of its mandate to inspire and inform policy and practice that lead to the reduction of poverty.
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  Country ownership and vertical programmes in health, health information and health research

  Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2008

  This paper, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, argues that in most low- and middle-income countries, foreign-funded initiatives determine national health research agendas, even in countries in which governments contribute substantially to supporting national health research systems, institutions and personnel.
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  Grand challenges in global health: engaging civil society organizations in biomedical research in developing countries

  Public Library of Science Medicine, 2007

  While several publications have addressed the role of civil society organisations (CSOs) in social science research in health, their role in biomedical research has not been widely discussed. This paper, published by Public Library of Science Medicine, delineates different types of CSOs, their role in biomedical research, and the advantages and challenges of working with them.
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  A Breakthrough in R&D for neglected diseases: new ways to get the drugs we need

  Public Library of Science Medicine, 2005

  Whereas only 13 new drugs have been developed for neglected tropical diseases since 1975, this paper, published in PLoS Medicine, notes that this is as a result of current perception that these diseases are not commercially attractive for companies to invest in and the other being that, although public-private partnerships (PPPs) for drug development have started, they are problemat
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  Status of national health research systems in ten countries of the WHO African Region

  BioMed Central, 2006

  This paper, published by BioMed Central, takes stock of some aspects of national resources for health research in the countries of the WHO African Region. The authors also identify current constraints facing national health research systems and propose the way forward.

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