Search Results - Development assistance.

Background note to assist in developing scenarios for 2010 by CGIAR Technical Advisory Committee

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Development assistance and investment in agriculture: Promises and facts by Fan, Shenggen, Breisinger, Clemens

“…Growing development challenges have renewed attention to the critical role that agriculture plays in the broad development process.The impact of agriculture extends beyond economic growth and poverty reduction to include improving health and nutrition and building resilience to climate change and conflict.While global and national promises have been made to advance agricultural development and food security, important gaps in implementation remain.To sustainably reduce poverty and improve food security, investments in agriculture -both foreign development assistance and national public expenditures -must be scaled up and adapted to exploit these new opportunities and to build resilience to future development challenges.To this end, the role of new actors, including emerging economies and the private sector, must be fully harnessed.The efficiency of public agricultural spending by national governments must also be improved.…”
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Leveraging US technical assistance for improved development outcomes by Bahalim, Ammad, Glauber, Joseph W.

“…Leveraging US Technical Assistance for Improved Development Outcomes…”
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Declining assistance to developing-country agriculture: change of paradigm? by Dresrüsse, Günter

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Science, Policy and Politics in a development assistance context by International Livestock Research Institute

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From social assistance to social development: targeted education subsidies in developing countries by Morley, Samuel, Coady, David

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Agricultural development in the Third World: the food, development, foreign assistance, trade nexus by Mellor, John W.

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Assistance to forestry: what have we learnt? by Persson, R.

“…Assistance given to forestry, such as official development assistance in general, presents problems. …”
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The role of the World Bank in agricultural development in the 1990s by Lipton, Michael, Paarlberg, Robert L.

Subjects: “…agricultural assistance…”
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Assistance to forestry: experiences and potential for improvement by Persson, R.

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International development assistance in forestry and land management: the process and the players by Byron, R.N.

“…However, this paper argues that the answer can only be found through understanding two much more general processes; how a forestry activity relates to the broader socio-economic context in which it is embedded; and how development assistance operates in practice. Many projects which professional foresters see as failures in technical or even humanitarian terms may have been successful according to other political or commercial criteria, or to the tests of other interest groups. …”
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The development and use of geographic information systems to assist Trypanosomiasis control by Perry, Brian D., Kruska, Russell L., Reid, Robin S.

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The changing roles of multilateral and bilateral foreign assistance. by Mellor, John W., Masters, William A.

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The Possibilities of International Assistance to Developing Countries in Research on Social and Economic Problems of Agricultural and Rural Development by CGIAR Technical Advisory Committee

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Optimizing food-assistance programs: Food assistance improves child growth in Burundi by Leroy, Jef L., Olney, Deanna K., Ruel, Marie T., Brown, Tracy

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Technical Assistance for Developing Operational Guidelines for Biofortification of Staple Food Crops by CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health

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Lessons for change: getting more from international forestry assistance by Fruhling, P., Persson, R.

“…During the last few decades, forestry assistance has benefited from the positive interest in environmental issues and has generally been less questioned than many other sectors of fields within international development assistance. …”
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Is agricultural insurance fulfilling its promise for the developing world? by Kramer, Berber, Hazell, Peter B. R., Alderman, Harold, Ceballos, Francisco, Kumar, Neha, Timu, Anne G.

“…Second, it acknowledges that insurance for catastrophic risks is unaffordable for most farmers and summarizes new developments in disaster assistance and safety net programs that can provide broader protection against these risks.…”
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Chinese and Indian economic relations and development assistance to Zimbabwe: Rationale, controversies and significance by Tinarwo, Joseph, Babu, Suresh Chandra

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Ending hunger sustainably: Trends in official development assistance (ODA) spending for agriculture by Eber-Rose, Mali, Laborde Debucquet, David, Murphy, Sophia

“…It offers an illustrative analysis of the types of exploration into public funding for development that can be conducted using a database maintained by OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC).…”
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