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Briefing paper

Salt, Sugar, and Malaria Pills: How the Affordable Medicine Facility-malaria endangers public health

24/10/2012

4 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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The Affordable Medicine Facility-malaria has shown no evidence that it has saved the lives of the most vulnerable or delayed drug resistance. Rather, this global subsidy has incentivised medicine sales without diagnosis and shown no evidence that it has served poor people. It poses a risk to public health and could skew investment away from […]

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Briefing paper

The Hunger Grains: The fight is on. Time to scrap EU biofuel mandates.

17/09/2012

8 documents

33 pages long

Languages: English, French, Italian, Spanish

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EU biofuel mandates, a subsidy to big business that could cost every adult about €30 each year by 2020, deprive millions of people of food, land and water. Countries with poor protection of land rights are magnets for land deals-most of which are to grow crops that can be used for biofuels. If the land […]

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Education resource

Sing Up

01/09/2012

8 documents

Languages: English

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Oxfam, in partnership with Sing Up, have developed the resource to enable teachers to integrate music inclusively into their classroom activities. It is also a fantastic introduction to the exciting topic of food and farming, introducing learners to the challenges and injustices that people face around the world. The resource includes musical scores, links to […]

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Education resource

Heroes and Heroines: Explore the 2012 Olympic Games

01/05/2012

2 documents

Languages: English

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Use the Olympic and Paralympic games to explore the values of respect, excellence, friendship and equality. Consider what makes a hero or a heroine and explore case studies of people who have made the world fairer. With separate packs for primary and secondary teachers, these resources include creative curriculum-linked teaching ideas for Literacy, PSHE, Citizenship, […]

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Journal article

Expanding women’s role in Africa’s modern off-grid lighting market: enhancing profitability and improving lives

23/03/2012

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Expanding women’s role in Africa’s modern off-grid lighting market: enhancing profitability and improving lives

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Women in Africa are both important beneficiaries and key facilitators of the modern off-grid lighting revolution. Affordable products using technologies like micro-solar power and light-emitting diodes (LEDs) can replace fuel-based lighting – enabling women and men to save money, reduce indoor pollution, and operate their small enterprises with reliable, clean lighting. This article discusses new […]

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Education resource

Explore Overseas Aid – Resources for 11-16 year olds

12/02/2012

4 documents

Languages: English, Welsh

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Help learners aged 11-16 to explore how aid helps millions of people, and be inspired to take action as active global citizens. Learners will use case studies and facts from around the world to assist them in dispelling those persistent aid myths, and consider ways in which they could campaign for its importance. Learn about […]

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Book

Managing Water Locally: An essential dimension of community water development

08/11/2011

1 documents

96 pages long

Languages: English

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Communities are frequently excluded from important aspects of environmental management. But they can play a fundamental role in the management of common pool resources such as water. This is particularly true when state capacity is weak or when communities remain on the periphery of support from any government. Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) has been […]

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Journal article

Attitude counts: engaging with rice farmers in West Africa

01/08/2011

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

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An international project called PADS promoted participatory learning and action research with inland valley rainfed rice farmers in West Africa. All countries received the same training, similar funding, and the same leadership. Although the staff in Ghana were conscientious and gave much training to the farmer beneficiaries, the Mali staff explicitly encouraged farmers to experiment. […]

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Research report

Making Growth Inclusive: Some lessons from countries and the literature

26/04/2011

1 documents

43 pages long

Languages: English

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Growth is back on the development agenda, promoted by bilateral and multilateral donors, and the G20, as the most effective way to lift people out of poverty. Economic growth has reduced poverty in developing countries in the past, but by ignoring the issue of equality, donors and poor country governments have failed to maximise the […]

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Journal article

The impact of agricultural research: evidence from West Africa

01/11/2010

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

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Can agricultural research help to enlist smallholders and their resources for global food security? The Convergence of Sciences (CoS) research programme in Benin and Ghana (2002-2006) tested the impact of technology development, using a pathway for impact which featured ‘technographies’, diagnostic studies, and farmer-experimenter groups to ensure appropriateness. Within the existing small windows of opportunity […]

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