Emerging patterns in architecture for management of economic assistance and development cooperation
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Climate change for fisheries and aquaculture
Fisheries and aquaculture play an important but often unsung role in economies around the world, in both developed and developing countries.
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Progress on drinking water and sanitation: special focus on sanitation
This report details global progress towards the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target for drinking water and sanitation, and what these trends suggest for the remainder of the Water for Life Decade 2005-2015. In recognition of the large sanitation deficit, and the declaration of 2008 as the International Year of Sanitation, the report has a special focus on sanitation. It opens with a review of the current status of sanitation and an assessment of progress towards the sanitation target included in the MDGs.
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India's deadly chemical addiction
India's rural activists for years have blamed the overuse and misuse of pesticides for a pervasive health crisis that afflicts villages like Jhajjal across the cotton belt of Punjab. Evidence continues to mount that the problems are severe.
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Jadugoda: four decades of nuclear exposure
Earlier this year there was yet another leak of radioactive sludge from UCIL's uranium plant in Jadugoda, Jharkhand. The accident and the dismissive official response to it clearly show the low priority the nuclear establishment accords to the safety of Jadugoda's people.
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Enhancing financial services flow to small scale marine fisheries sector
This study is to understand the financial services sector with regard to low-income fisherfolk, especially, in a comparative analysis framework in the post tsunami context, with the following objectives: to understand the extent to which men and women in fisheries are excluded from the mainstream financial system; to identify their various needs for financial services across pre-harvest, harvest a
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Climate change and biodiversity for food and agriculture
Biodiversity for food and agriculture includes the variability among living organisms contributing to food and agriculture, including also the forestry and fisheries sectors. This concept includes diversity within species, between species and of ecosystems.
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Biofuels for transportation: a climate perspective
As the United States seeks to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from motor vehicles and to lessen its dependence on imported oil, biofuels are gaining increasing attention as one possible solution. This paper offers an introduction to the current state of play for biofuels: the technologies used in their production, their GHG emissions, and associated policy issues.
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Dynamics of rural water supply in coastal Kerala: a sustainable development view
This paper by Centre for Development Studies examines empirically within sustainable development framework the dynamics of coverage in rural drinking water supply of 180 demand-driven schemes from Malappuram, predominantly a coastal district of Kerala State.
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Climate resilient cities
Climate Resilient Cities: A Primer on Reducing Vulnerabilities to Climate Change Impacts and Strengthening Disaster Risk Management in East Asian Cities is prepared as a guide for local governments in the East Asia Region to better understand the concepts and consequences of climate change; how climate change consequences contribute to urban vulnerabilities; and what is being done by city governments in East Asia and around the world to actively engage in learning, capacity building, and capital investment programs for building sustainable, resilient communities.
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Managing Asian cities: sustainable and inclusive urban solutions
This book gives an overview of the major issues in Asian cities in providing services and investments for their citizens in a period of rapid change and new challenges of climate change and economic restructuring. It provides lessons drawn from case studies of the urban sector in the People
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Study on review of fruit products order 1955: final report
This study initiated by the Ministry of Food Processing Industries covers overall review of existing FPO 1955 and suggests amendments based upon developments and modernization in Fruit and Vegetable Processing Industry.
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Regional health forum: protecting health from climate change
This regional health forum includes the special issue on world health day 2008 theme: protecting health from climate change.
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Requirement and procedure for monitoring ambient noise level due to aircrafts
The objective of this document is to specify suitable requirements and procedures for carrying out monitoring of ambient noise levels around airports due to aircrafts. A proper database is essential for planning and executing suitable noise control programme for airports in the country.
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The time is now: how world leaders should respond to the food price crisis
The food price crisis represents an enormous challenge to the leadership and legitimacy of the world's multilateral institutions, but is also a genuine opportunity to deliver long overdue reforms to the food and agriculture system. Those countries with the resources and power to deliver such reforms should take the lead, as they have done in trying to avert a global financial crisis. This briefing note sets out a series of steps, both short- and medium-term, to deal with the current food crisis, and to put in place the reforms required to prevent future repetitions.
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Intellectual property rights policy for Kerala 2008
The Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) Policy for Kerala puts forth the concept of 'knowledge commons' and 'commons licence' for traditional knowledge. The policy says that all traditional knowledge, including traditional medicine, must belong to the domain of "knowledge commons" and not to public domain. The system should be introduced through legal arrangements. While community or family custodians will have rights to knowledge that belonged to them, the rest of the traditional knowledge will belong to Kerala State.
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Punjab govt starts cancer registry: studies indicate pesticides cancer link
Two studies pointing to the link between heavy pesticide use and several illnesses, including cancer, in Punjab have prompted the state government to set up a cancer registry programme. The Punjab government has decided to begin a cancer registry programme.
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Inefficiency of rural water supply schemes in India
The 10-state study on effectiveness of rural water supply schemes, undertaken by the World Bank has looked at various aspects of
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Climate change: a development challenge
Climate change is one of the most serious threats the world faces. It will affect all of us, but will have a disproportionate impact on millions of poor rural people.
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Participatory water monitoring: a guide for preventing and managing conflict
Participatory water monitoring can be especially important in helping prevent water-related conflicts that may arise in the extractive industry and large-scale agriculture sectors.