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The science of sustainable development: local livelihoods and the global environment por Sayer, Jeffrey A., Campbell, Bruce M.

“…This book attempts to redefine roles of government agencies, development assistance programmes and science in achieving a more sustainable future of rural landscapes in tropical developing countries. …”
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Mapping poverty and livestock in the developing world por Thornton, Philip K., Kruska, Russell L., Henninger, N., Kristjanson, Patricia M., Reid, Robin S., Atieno, F., Odero, A.N., Ndegwa, T.

“…This includes mapping a global livestock production system classification, using definitions based on agroclimatology and human population density; mapping human population growth scenarios to 2050 for sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), Central and South America (CSA), and Asia; development of climate surfaces for Africa to 2050 as predicted from the downscaling of results from coarse-resolution global climate change models; mapping the livestock system classification for Africa to 2050 as driven by predicted changes in human population and climate; mapping district - and province - level poverty data for Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda as an example of high-resolution poverty data for more effective targeting of development assistance. Major conclusions of the analysis are outlined at the end of the document.…”
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Is HIV/AIDS undermining Botswana’s ‘success story’? implications for development strategy por Thurlow, James

“…Although providing treatment is projected to reclaim a quarter of the lost growth and a third of the poverty caused by the pandemic, the fiscal burden of treatment will constrain diversification, thus underscoring Botswana’s need for development assistance. Furthermore, focusing resources toward treatment may worsen inequality, since the primary beneficiaries will be middle-income and urban households. …”
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Food for all in 2020: can the world be fed without damaging the environment? por Pinstrup-Andersen, Per, Pandya-Lorch, Rajul

“…In order for these changes to occur, sustained action is needed in six areas: (1) strengthening the capacity of developing-country governments; (2) investing more in poor people; (3) accelerating agricultural productivity; (4) assuring sound management of natural resources; (5) developing competitive markets; and (6) expanding and realigning international development assistance. We have the knowledge and the capacity to meet the food needs of every person without damaging the environment. …”
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Options for a just transition for livestock under climate change por Thornton, Philip K., Wollenberg, Eva Karoline, Cramer, Laura K., Flintan, Fiona E.

“…Both public and private sectors need to move from pledges and commitments to incentives and action through policy targets and disclosure requirements, sustainability-linked finance, and development assistance for innovation.…”
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Is Rice Improvement Still Making a Difference? Assessing the Economic, Poverty, and Food Security Impacts of Rice Varieties Released from 1989 to 2009 in Bangladesh, Indonesia and... por Raitzer, D.A., Sparks, A.H., Huelgas, Z., Maligalig, R., Balangue, Z., Launio, C., Daradjat, A., Ahmed, H.U.

“…The productivity impact of the initial diffusion of modern varieties (MVs) of rice across Asia during the 1960s through the 1980s, as part of the “Green Revolution”, is one of the most documented successes of international development assistance in agriculture. However, much less is known about whether continued efforts to further improve rice varieties are making similar contributions to on farm productivity. …”
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Ending hunger, increasing incomes, and protecting the climate: What would it cost donors? por Laborde Debucquet, David, Murphy, Sophia, Parent, Marie, Porciello, Jaron, Smaller, Carin

“…The project focuses on three of the five targets in the second sustainable development goal (SDG 2, Zero Hunger) and looks at the public spending needed in low- and middle-income countries, including the contribution from donors through official development assistance (ODA) (Laborde et al., 2020). This report answers the second question. …”
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Integrated policies to improve the energy–water–food system nexus to achieve the SGDs por Bollino, Carlo Andrea, Anbumozhi, Venkatachalam, Babu, Suresh Chandra, Eiji, Yamaji, Galeotti, Marzio

“…The suggestion is to promote policies to (1) facilitate which determinants are best suited to enhance the convergence of policy process, such as economic diversification, subsidy removal, and liberalization through a multisectoral approach; and (2) support increasing electricity access using alternative sources of energies in remote rural areas in Asia, Africa, and Latin America through integrated Official Development Assistance (ODA) and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI).…”
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Temporary migration and climate variation in Eastern Africa por Mueller, Valerie, Sheriff, Glenn, Dou, Xiaoya, Gray, Clark

“…Hence, adaptation is a key component of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change agreements and development assistance. Effective climate adaptation policy requires an understanding of how temperature and rainfall variability affect migration patterns. …”
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Two decades after Maputo, What’s in the CAADP ten percent? Determinants and effects of the composition of government agriculture expenditure in Africa por Benin, Samuel

“…The allocation is also affected by several factors, such as past output and size of the subsector, official development assistance, education, irrigation, and state of agricultural transformation, although there are cross-subsector differences in their influence. …”
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Greening the Dark Side of Chocolate: A Qualitative Assessment to Inform Sustainable Supply Chains por Camargo, M.C., Hogarth, N.J., Pacheco, P., Nhantumbo, I., Kanninen, M.

“…Thematic analysis of the responses revealed six main themes: (1) make better use of policies, regulations and markets to help promote sustainability; (2) improve information and data (e.g., impacts of climate change on cocoa) to inform sound interventions; (3) focus on the landscape rather than the farm-level alone and improve integration of supply chain actors; (4) promote better coordination between stakeholders and initiatives (e.g., development assistance projects and corporate sustainability efforts); (5) focus on interdependent relationships between social, environmental and economic dimensions to achieve sustainable development; and (6) engage with the private sector. …”
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Challenges and opportunities of trilateral co-operation: Collaboration by the USA, Brazil and Mozambique on horticultural research, 2011–2015 por Schmink, Marianne, Smart, Jenny, Sitoe, Isabel, Bowen, Walter, Silva, Henoque Ribeiro, Ecole, Carvalho Carlos, Haber, Lenita

“…The PSAL project tested and adapted vegetable crop production, post‐harvest and processing practices and technologies; developed field infrastructure for research, extension and processing; trained scores of Mozambican researchers, interns, interviewers and extension technicians; and collected, organized and made systematic socioeconomic information publicly available.Trilateral co‐operation (TC) is an innovative model of development assistance involving collaboration by a traditional donor, a pivotal country and a host country. …”
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Evaluating the Mexico city policy: How US foreign policy affects fertility outcomes and child health in Ghana por Jones, Kelly M.

“…US development assistance represents a significant source of funding for many population programs in poor countries. …”
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Gender mainstreaming for food security and poverty reduction programs in Asia and Africa por Hanjra, Munir A., Zafar, M. I., Batool, Z., Nawaz, N., Maann, A.A., Ayalew, Z., Alemu, B.A.

“…Gender equality ranks high on the global development agenda and evidence-based gender targeting is emerging as a key criteria in international development assistance programs such as those for enhancing food security and reducing poverty and the broader development goals such as those set by the MDGs to 2015 and beyond. …”
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Research and training partnership to assist policy and capacity building in improving food safety in Vietnam por Hung Nguyen-Viet, Grace, Delia, Phuc Pham Duc, Sinh Dang-Xuan, Toan Luu-Quoc, Unger, Fred, Vlieger, S. de, Ngoc Pham Thi, Nhiem Duong-Van, Long Nguyen-Hung, Luan Tran-Dinh, Tran Thi Tuyet Hanh

“…We used the OECD Development Assistance Committee Evaluation Criteria as a framework for assessing the impact of the Taskforce with five evaluation areas – relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact and sustainability. …”
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Evaluating policy-relevant research: lessons from a series of theory-based outcomes assessments por Belcher, B., Suryadarma, D., Halimanjaya, A.

“…This is especially true in a research-for-development context where research competes with other worthy alternatives for overseas development assistance funding and where highly complex social, economic and ecological environments add to evaluation challenges. …”
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CGIAR Road from COP29 to COP30 Webinar Series #2: The New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) por CGIAR Science Program on Climate Action

“…Giulia Maria Galbiati, Climate Change Specialist and Coordinator of the FAST Partnership Task Force at FAO, provided an in-depth analysis of climate-related finance for agrifood systems, exploring how climate-related official development assistance (ODA) and financial mechanisms can ensure food systems are not sidelined in the evolving climate finance landscape. …”
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Forest-related research capacity in Eastern Africa: Burundi, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda por Spilsbury, M.J., Kowero, G.S., Mukolwe, M.O., Netzehti, A., Legesse, W.W., Nsengiyumva, O., Kiwuso, P., Sabas, E.

“…While there is still a considerable need to invest in the development of human resources and physical infrastructure at the organisational level, governments and development assistance agencies should attempt a multi-pronged strategic approach to improve the overall performance of research systems. …”
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The white man’s burden : en studie om den svenska synen på biståndet till Afrika por Söderberg, Emma

Community forestry in Yunnan: the challenge for networks [Chinese] por Colchester, M.

“…Local activists distinguish between the government’s ‘social forestry’ and the ‘community forestry’ that has been promoted, since the late 1980s, by the Ford Foundation, international development assistance projects and the international networks, notably RECOFTC. …”
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