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  A review of selected multi-country agricultural and natural resources management research programmes and projects in Africa: lessons for the future

  Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa, 2008

  African agriculture is characterised by a high degree of social, market and environmental diversity which calls for innovations that are adapted to specific contexts. However, there are opportunities for collaboration and task sharing to make best use of the limited resources due to the fact that social and ecological circumstances extend well beyond national boundaries.
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  Research Strategy 2008 - 2012

  Department for International Development, UK, 2008

  This document details the UK Department for International Development's (DFID) research strategy for the next five years. It aims to focus on six main subject areas - growth, sustainable agriculture, climate change, health, governance and future challenges and opportunities.
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  International Development Centre, Open University (IDC)

  The International Development Centre (IDC) is an inter-faculty centre to develop academic research and teaching interventions on issues of international development, based on collaborations and networ
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  Center for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania

  The Advanced Study of India is the only research institution in the United States dedicated to the study of contemporary India.
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  Knowledge systems and deliberative interface in natural resource governance: an overview

  International Development Research Centre, 2007

  The focus of the publication is to analyse and understand how different groups of social agents engage in the diverse knowledge systems operating in the natural resource sector in Nepal. It examines how knowledge is developed, documented and applied at different levels of natural resource governance using six case studies from forest, agriculture and water sectors.
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  Governing agricultural biotechnology in Africa: building public confidence and capacity for policy-making

  African Centre for Technology Studies, 2008

  This book provides an overview of the potential benefits of agricultural biotechnology in Africa in the context of continuous poor agricultural production and rising food insecurity. The authors draw on research on biotechnology and biosafety policy in three African countries: Kenya, South Africa and Uganda.
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  Agricultural research delivery in Africa: an assessment of the requirements for efficient, effective and productive national agricultural research systems in Africa

  Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa, 2006

  This assessment was commissioned by the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) to advance efforts to strengthen the principle providers of agricultural research for Africa's development, known as National Agricultural Research Systems (NARS). Subsequently, the aim is also to strengthen the sub-regional research organisations (SRO), established to support the NARS.
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  Decarbonizing Japan - A proposal for domestic emissions trading scheme

  WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2008

  As greenhouse gas emissions in Japan continue to rise, this paper puts forward a proposal for introducing a policy framework that aims to prompt Japanese businesses and households to become more active in effecting a transition to a decarbonised society.
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  The economic impact of climate change in Namibia: how climate change will affect the contribution of Namibia’s natural resources to its economy

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2007

  Climate change is likely to exacerbate the dry conditions already experienced in Southern Africa; but these predictions gain little policy attention in Southern African countries. This paper discusses how Namibia must take steps to provide some economic indicators of how climate change will affect the country and ensure that all its policies and activities are ‘climate proofed’.
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  Embedding research in society: development assistance options for supporting agricultural innovation in a global knowledge economy

  United Nations University Institute for New technologies, 2008

  The emergence of a globalised knowledge economy, and the contemporary views of innovation capacity that this trend enables and informs, provides a new context in which development assistance to agricultural research and development needs to be considered.

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