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Media attitudes to reporting climate change
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006Effective responses to climate change must include people in climate-vulnerable regions in the development of adaptation and mitigation strategies. The media in these regions can play an important role in communicating the issues, but the media in many developing countries shows little interest in the climate change debate.DocumentAchieving food security in southern Africa: policy issues and options
Overseas Development Institute, 2004This paper synthesises the findings to date of ODI’s Forum for Food Security in Southern Africa.Documentid21 viewpoint - AUVEC: using the virtual world to achieve real world gains in livestock care
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006The importance of livestock to poor people is as obvious as the humps on a camel. However, the diseases that affect animals and their keepers do not get the attention they need.DocumentBirth intervals and injectable contraception in sub-Saharan Africa
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006Short intervals between births increase the risk of children dying during their first year and beyond. Use of contraception should help to increase birth intervals, but does it work? Research in nine African countries suggests that use of the injectable contraceptive, depot-medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA), actually increases the odds of short birth intervals.DocumentLinking farmers to markets
Agricultural Support Systems Division, FAO, 2006This website/page presents a selection of brief case studies of ways in which small-scale farmers in developing countries have linked with markets, through their own efforts and with assistance from others.DocumentNo small change: Oxfam GB Malawi and Zambia emergency cash transfer projects - a synthesis of key learning
Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI, 2006In response to predictions of an impending food crisis in southern Africa in 2005 - 2006, Oxfam deployed a relief response. As an alternative to emergency food aid, the agency undertook cash transfer schemes in both Malawi and Zambia.DocumentA Gendered Value Chain Approach To Codes of Conduct in African Horticulture
2003Codes of conduct designed to regulate the employment conditions of Southern producers exporting to European markets were rapidly adopted throughout the 1990s - especially in the horticulture sector linking European supermarkets with export firms in Africa.DocumentIs cash the best way to assist poor and vulnerable people?
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006In the face of chronic poverty, food insecurity and increasing HIV and AIDS in eastern and southern Africa, there is growing recognition of the importance of cash transfers for reaching vulnerable children and households. A variety of cash transfer schemes are being piloted. Should they be scaled-up?DocumentCan a workshop change stigma?
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006Irrational fears and judgements, misinformation and traditional beliefs fuel stigma against people living with HIV and AIDS. Although policy change and advocacy are important for creating an environment free of stigma, individual behaviour change is equally important.DocumentTalking freely about sexuality in Zambia
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006Various factors make young people vulnerable to HIV/AIDS: earlier puberty and later marriage, sexual and gender norms, sexual abuse, poverty, mixed messages about sexual behaviour and lack of condoms. Schools and communities in Zambia work together to build knowledge, values and skills and create positive peer pressure to help young people.Pages