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    Justice and sustainability: resistance and innovation in a transnational land deal in Ghana

    World Bank, 2012
    This paper examines the case of a Nordic appropriation of land through a lease agreement with chiefs in southern Ghana, initially for biofuel production and then for large-scale, mechanized food production.The production shift triggered resistance over loss of land and environmental impact, and threatened to destabilize the project.This enticed the company to innovate through improving cooperat
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    Justice and sustainability: resistance and innovation in a transnational land deal in Ghana

    World Bank, 2012
    This paper examines the case of a Nordic appropriation of land through a lease agreement with chiefs in southern Ghana, initially for biofuel production and then for large-scale, mechanized food production.The production shift triggered resistance over loss of land and environmental impact, and threatened to destabilize the project.This enticed the company to innovate through improving cooperat
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    Access to, Equity and Protection of Genetic Resources in Ghana: The Case of Tilapia (O. niloticus)

    Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 2012
    Ghana is a latecomer to ABS legislation although the principle of benefit sharing has long traditions in Ghanaian society, also in the aquaculture sector. Experiences from bioprospecting deals have often been negative, similar to many other cases in Africa. This underscores the need for ABS legislation and institutions also in Ghana.
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    Africa’s Silk Road: China and India’s new economics frontier

    World Bank, 2007
    This report finds that Asian trade and investment in Africa hold great promise for Africa’s economic growth and development – provided certain policy reforms on both continents are implemented. It provides systematic empirical evidence on how the two emerging economic giants of Asia – China and India – now stand at the crossroads of the explosion of African-Asian trade and investment.
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    Information and communication technologies (ICTs) and climate change adaptation and mitigation: the case of Ghana

    International Telecommunication Union, 2012
    Using Ghana as a case study, this report presents the potential of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to contribute to climate change adaptation and mitigation. It provides concrete lessons learned and makes practical suggestions aimed at developing country decision-makers and practitioners.
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    The financial protection effect of Ghana National Health Insurance Scheme: evidence from a study in two rural districts

    BioMed Central, 2011
    One of the key functions of health insurance is to provide financial protection against high costs of health care, yet evidence of such protection from developing countries has been inconsistent. This article uses the case of Ghana to contribute to the evidence pool about insurance’s financial protection effects.
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    The climate investment funds: in action

    African Development Bank, 2012
    The Climate Investment Fund (CIF) provides developing countries with concessional loans, equity, grants and risk mitigation instruments to leverage financing from multilateral banks, the private sector and other sectors. The African Development Bank (AfDB) is one of the five implementing agencies for the CIF concessional funds to Africa; this report is AfDB’s first semi-annual report on the CIF.
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    Climate vulnerability monitor 2nd edition: a guide to the cold calculus of a hot planet

    Fundación DARA Internacional, 2012
    The Climate Vulnerability Monitor measures the global impact of climate change and the carbon economy at a national level. It calculates and compares the vulnerability of 184 countries in four areas of impact (environmental disasters, habitat change, health impact and industry stress) using 34 climate and carbon related indicators.
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    Climate Change and Agricultural Policy Processes in Ghana

    Future Agricultures Consortium, 2012
    FAC Working Paper 45by Daniel Bruce Sarpong and Nana Akua Anyidoho
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    What makes domestic violence legislation more effective?

    Pathways of Women's Empowerment RPC, 2011
    This policy paper, developed as part of the Pathways of Women’s Empowerment programme, considers four key questions: • What is domestic violence and how is it manifested • What role has women’s organising played in confronting domestic violence? • What should domestic violence legislation encompass?

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