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IIED: Statement by the International Institute for Environment and Development, independent policy research institute, on urbanisation (11/04/2013)

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Urbanization is often associated with greater independence and opportunity for women – but also with high risks of violence and constraints on employment, mobility and leadership that reflect...

The right to vote: Where do citizens in the diaspora stand? - Part 2

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

Part 1 of this article established that citizens in the diaspora still reserve the right to the franchise of voting. This paper follows on as a political survey, discussing the challenges that...

The right to vote: Where do citizens in the diaspora stand? - Part 1

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

The term 'diaspora' refers to a community formed as a result of the dispersion of a people from their homeland. Such people would have been induced or forced to leave their country, a process that...

IIED: Statement by the International Institute for Environment and Development, independent policy research institute, report warns of ways climate change threatens food security of urban poor (28/03/2013)

STATEMENT

Policies to increase food security in the global South focus too much on rural food production and not enough on ensuring poor people can access and afford food, especially in urban areas, says a...

IIED: Statement by the International Institute for Environment and Development, independent policy research institute, on international effort to ensure good governance of natural resources (14/03/2013)

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An international effort to ensure good governance of natural resources could do more to improve accountability and sustainability, according to research in the oil- and gas-rich Caspian Sea Region...

Nzimande establishes committee to boost varsity transformation

EDUCATION

To tackle the up-to-now slow transformation in South Africa’s tertiary sector, Higher Education Minister Dr Blade Nzimande on Wednesday announced that his department had established a Ministerial...

UFS: Statement by the University of the Free State, young scientists spend three months at the UFS (05/12/2012)

STATEMENT

People often fight about their differences, like skin colour, religion and more. “These differences are minute. We must celebrate our common ancestry and commit ourselves to a common destiny....

SA: Statement by the International Institute for Environment and Development, asserst that the BRICS urbanisation provides key lessons for economic growth and social equity (05/12/2012)

STATEMENT

The research shows how each of the BRICS nations has met difficulties as they have urbanised, especially when they have tried to resist the predictable movement of people into their cities, or have...

SA: Statement by the University of the Free State, on hosting the first Southern African Young Scientists Summer Programme (19/11/2012)

STATEMENT

This will form part of an annual three-month education, academic training and research capacity-building programme jointly organised by the National Research Foundation (NRF), the Department of...

The Congo Basin: When the war moves in the parks

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

On 24 June 2012, there was attack on the Okapi Faunal Reserve in the village of Epulu in the Ituri province of Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. This is the latest incident in a string of...

SA: Pandor: Address by the Minister of Science and Technology, at a media briefing on COP17, Durban (30/11/2011)

Topics

Let me begin by stating that, South Africa is embracing and implementingmulti-pronged and multi-stakeholder responses to our climate challenges. In this regard, science and technology is crucial to...

$100bn Green Climate Fund hits barrier

CLIMATE FUNDING

Discussions regarding the design of the Green Climate Fund (GCF), which would disburse $100-billion a year for climate financing among developing countries by 2020, deadlocked this week as...

Unesco: Bokova: Address by the Director-General, at the IIEP policy forum, Paris (03/10/2011)

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Date: 03/10/2011
Source: United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation
Title: Unesco: Bokova: Address by the Director-General, at the IIEP policy forum,...

Making the most of agricultural investment: A survey of business models that provide opportunities for smallholders (June 2010)

AGRICULTURE

This report from the Food and Agriculture Organisation, the International Fund for Agricultural Development, the International Institute for Environment and Development and the Swiss Agency for...

2010 World Competitiveness Yearbook (May 2010)

ECONOMICS

The World Competitiveness Yearbook measures 58 countries on the basis of 327 criteria. The International Institute for Management Development reports that Singapore, Hong Kong and the US come out...

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