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Adressing ACP Nutrition security - The Key Role of Agriculture (Reader)

Felix Nkwetta Ajong uploaded a new Document | 25 April 2013

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Briefing n. 23 Prepared by Rajul Pandya-Lorch, Head of the 2020 Vision Initiative, IFPRI Isolina Boto, Head of CTA Brussels Office Rural development for a Better World Brussels, 15th June 2011

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
Brussels Development Briefing on the Water we Eat: : Challenges for ACP countries in times of scarcity

Felix Nkwetta Ajong posted Information | 17 April 2013

On April the 13th, 2011, CTA organised a Briefing on the “ Water we Eat” in cooperation with the European Commission (DG DEVCO) , Concord , the ACP Secretariat and various media. This Briefing discussed the complex and dynamic relationship between water resources and agriculture in ACP countries,...

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Highlight of the Brussels Development Briefing on the water we Eat.

Felix Nkwetta Ajong uploaded a new Document | 17 April 2013

br-20-the-water-we-eat-eng.pdf 2.28 MB

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Group: Public Group on Water and Sanitation
Reader: The Water we Eat

Felix Nkwetta Ajong uploaded a new Document | 17 April 2013

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Group: Public Group on Water and Sanitation
Donor Support to the Private Sector Can Work, says Kenyan Entrepreneur

Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013

A thriving private sector is essential to long-term sustainable development, but entrepreneurs in developing countries face numerous obstacles, not least accessing the finances to help them realise their business dreams. One successful entrepreneur from Kenya, Africa, states her case.

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Building Ownership to Deliver Sustainable Water Aid

Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013

When the children of Inyima in southeast Nigeria began to fall sick and die, villagers were horrified to learn that their own poor hygiene practices had contaminated the community’s drinking water, causing a deadly diarrhoea outbreak.

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Making Farmers Part of the Climate Change Solution

Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013

To date, the agricultural sector, as a net green house gas producer, has largely been seen as part of the climate change problem. But Dr Alex De Pinto of the International Food Policy Research Institute wants to see farmers become part of the climate change solution. Whether it’s through livestock...

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Helping Low-Income Farmers Access High-End Markets

Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013

Agricultural producers in the African Caribbean and Pacific region, with the help of a European Commission backed project, are learning how to meet stringent regulations and requirements and continue to sell their foodstuffs in European markets.

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Budget Support is Not the Only Way

Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013

Funneling money into the coffers of partner countries is not the only way donors like the European Commission should offer their support. Finances should also be directed towards smaller bodies, like farmers groups, according to Mamadou Cissokho, a farmer’s representative from Senegal.

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Ancient Practices with Modern Value

Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013

The roaming farming practices of nomadic pastoralists may appear to have altered little in hundreds of years, but in today’s unpredictable age of climate change these ancient practices may hold the key to flexible farming in hostile environments and donors should do more to support them, say...

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