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Institutional Learning and Change Initiative | Promoting collaborative pro-poor agricultural innovation
CG site on institutional learning and change. Resource for monitoring and evaluation, etc
The Big Fix - Can Barack Obama Really Transform the U.S. Economy? - NYTimes.com
An excellent piece on the economy and factors related to growth and income inequality
India debuts 'agricultural Wikipedia' | Checkbiotech
This should be something interesting to follow. There was another initiative of this type, through Switzerland. They will need some innovative work to assess their impact.
Why the Gates Foundation Decided to Fund Agriculture
Of course funding health is not a bad thing. But we need to be mindful of that first basic necessity of survival - food.
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The green net stands out in a heap of fishing gear in one of the boats at
Liunda Beach on the shores of Lake Victoria in Bondo District. It is a
mosquito net that has been turned into fishing gear.
Intended for the bedroom to combat malaria, mosquito nets are fast finding
a new role. This turn of events is raising concern among public health
experts and fisheries managers. Apart from reversing the gains made in the
fight against malaria, this misuse also poses a risk to fish stocks in Lake
Victoria.
Congressional corporate welfare leaves the hungry for dead
The problem is that our representatives and senators in the Congress have no conscience. They are parasites on our nation. The very worst Americans. Anybody who votes for this corporate welfare when people are dying should hang their heads in shame.
Ugandans critical of ruling party, poll finds |
See the final paragraph on cassava in Uganda and how it is coming back, doing well, despite the disease problems of the past
allAfrica.com: Ghana: Northern Region Records Food Surpluses (Page 1 of 1)
Nice to have some good news about harvests coming out of Africa, in this case surpluses in Northern Ghana...
Global Development Commons | Global Development Commons
This efforts is promoted by USAID and is perhaps a window into some of their thinking about how to use ICTs for development.
The Financial Crisis: Implications for Developing Countries
We need more studies and papers like this one. Few people seem to know what might happen in developing countries as move through this global economic crisis.
Ghana News :: Farmers select 10 top ranking commodities for Upper West ::: Breaking News | News in Ghana | news
What farmers want R+D on in Ghana....
Global Price Spikes Could Create 'New Poor' in Jamaica - Dr. Chang - Jamaica Information Service
This news article mentions a new poverty map for Jamaica....
Foreign Policy: The Failed States Index 2008
Rankings, maps and other information on failed states across the world...
Knowledge and development bookmarks
John Daly's bookmarks on knowledge management, science and technology and sustainable development
The Global Food Crisis: Will Investments in Agricultural Technology be enough? | End Poverty in South Asia
Interesting post on accessibility and the global food crisis....
NationMaster - World Statistics, Country Comparisons
This is a good place to start if you need national statistics on something.
World Banker and His Cash Return Home - New York Times
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An important man from the World Bank recently arrived in this isolated village, where monkeys prowl rutted roads, rain pours through the school roof and the native son who achieved the most did so by going away.
Lessons about global poverty were waiting, but so were his sisters’ chapattis. Migrant and migration scholar, Dilip Ratha was home.
No one has done more than Mr. Ratha to make migration and its potential rewards a top-of-the-agenda concern in the world’s development ministries. And no place has done more to shape his views than this forgotten hamlet, where he studied under the lone streetlight and began a poor boy’s improbable journey to the front ranks of an elite field.
You Are What You Spend - New York Times
graphic accompanying article on income and consumption
You Are What You Spend - New York Times
Nice piece discussing the difference between income and consumption. Also a good argument for targeting economic stimulus packages to the least wealthy.
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