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Spatial Food and Nutrition Security Typologies for Agriculture and Food Value Chain Interventions in Eastern DRC 
  • Language: en

Spatial Food and Nutrition Security Typologies for Agriculture and Food Value Chain Interventions in Eastern DRC 

To guide the design of future agriculture and food value chain interventions, this paper combines two existing spatial food and nutrition security typologies and applies them to the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Apart from estimating absolute and relative inefficiencies along the food system from agricultural potential to nutrition, the integration of both typologies resulted in nine unique low efficiency profiles across the territories and major cities of the Greater Kivu region and Tanganyika. In addition to low utilization efficiency observed in some areas, most PICAGL intervention zones, especially Uvira and Kalemie, suffer from significant market constraints and therefore could substantially benefit from food value chain development. Although this paper relies on the most recent and spatially disaggregated data (which is a major improvement with respect to agricultural statistics of the country), the proposed typologies cannot uncover all bottlenecks hindering the development of agricultural value chains in the region.

Typologies spatiales de la sécurité alimentaire et nutritionnelle appliquées à l’agriculture et aux chaînes de valeur alimentaires dans l’Est de la RDC]
  • Language: fr
  • Pages: 36

Typologies spatiales de la sécurité alimentaire et nutritionnelle appliquées à l’agriculture et aux chaînes de valeur alimentaires dans l’Est de la RDC]

Le présent document applique une combinaison de deux typologies spatiales de la sécurité alimentaire et nutritionnelle à la région Est de la République démocratique du Congo (RDC) dans le but de guider la conception des futures interventions dans le domaine de l’agriculture et des chaînes de valeur alimentaires. L’intégration des deux typologies a permis d’estimer des inefficacités absolues et relatives tout au long du système alimentaire (du potentiel agricole à la nutrition) et d’aboutir à neuf profils uniques de faible efficacité dans les territoires et les grandes villes de la région du Grand Kivu et du Tanganyika. En plus de la faible efficacité d’utilisation o...

The Internet of Women - Accelerating Culture Change
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 208

The Internet of Women - Accelerating Culture Change

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-09-01
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  • Publisher: CRC Press

Female scientists, technologists, engineers, and mathematicians worldwide are making historic contributions to their fields. The modern workforce is closer to gender-equal than it has ever been, and many efforts are in place to support further progress. The Internet of Women provides an exciting look at personal narratives and case studies of female leaders and cultural shifts around the globe that illustrate this promising trend. From the United Nations' emphasis on girls and technology education in the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) to the increased female labor force in Zambia, a policy change that was inspired by the MDGs (UN Millennial Development Goals), The Internet of Women cap...

Agricultural extension: Global status and performance in selected countries
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 380

Agricultural extension: Global status and performance in selected countries

Agricultural transformation and development are critical to the livelihoods of more than a billion small-scale farmers and other rural people in developing countries. Extension and advisory services play an important role in such transformation and can assist farmers with advice and information, brokering and facilitating innovations and relationships, and dealing with risks and disasters. Agricultural Extension: Global Status and Performance in Selected Countries provides a global overview of agricultural extension and advisory services, assesses and compares extension systems at the national and regional levels, examines the performance of extension approaches in a selected set of country ...

The Quality of Growth in Africa
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 445

The Quality of Growth in Africa

In recent years, concerns about the outcomes and nature of economic growth have given way to a new emphasis on its quality. This volume brings together prominent international contributors to consider a range of interrelated questions concerning the quality of growth in Africa, with a primary focus on sub-Saharan countries. Contributors discuss the measurement of growth, the transformations necessary to sustain it, and issues around equity and well-being. They consider topics such as the distribution of income gains from growth; the extent to which economic growth has resulted in improvements in employment, poverty, and security; structural transformations of the economy and diversification of the sources of growth; environmental sustainability; and management of urbanization. Offering both diagnoses and prescriptions, The Quality of Growth in Africa helps envision a future that goes beyond increasing GDP to ensuring that growth translates into advancements in well-being. Although the book focuses on sub-Saharan Africa, much of the contributors’ incisive analysis has implications for countries outside the region.

Policy atlas on food and nutrition security: Rwanda
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 48

Policy atlas on food and nutrition security: Rwanda

This report is the final outcome of various knowledge products and training material, usually labelled as “printed eAtlas”, which have been developed and shared with Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) under the Voice for Change Partnership (V4CP) programme.

Product-Country Images
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 504

Product-Country Images

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-05-01
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This is the first-ever book about product and country images. It discusses the nature and role and influence of product-country images in international marketing strategy and consumer behavior. Thousands of companies use country identifiers as part of their international marketing strategy, and hundreds of researchers have studied the ways in which these identifiers influence behavior. As markets become more international, the more prominently the origin of products will figure in sellers' and buyers' decisions. The time is ripe for practitioners and academicians to delve into the insights offered in this seminal volume so as to better prepare for meeting the competitive challenges of the global marketplace. Product-Country Images is a wide-ranging and state-of-the-art book offering specific information and case studies to further understanding of the various aspects of this complex topic.

Comprehensive typology for food and nutrition security interventions, with application to the rural territories of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 49

Comprehensive typology for food and nutrition security interventions, with application to the rural territories of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)

In this paper we develop a policy-relevant typology using different intervention types and nutrition constraints. Our approach is based on an amendable demarcation of areas within a four-indicator diagram, each of which represents a core dimension of food and nutrition security (FNS), which makes our typology conceptually sound, operationally flexible, and less data intensive. The derived typology is applied to rural territories of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Despite a continuum of heterogenous development challenges across the country, the typology helped identify various clusters of territories which suffer mostly from production, access, and utilization constraints. Consequently, for the nine territories (out of 145) with the highest child stunting levels, we identified four broad intervention zones and studied the efficiency profile in more detail.

Policy atlas on food and nutrition security and resilience: Burkina Faso
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 44

Policy atlas on food and nutrition security and resilience: Burkina Faso

This report is the final outcome of various knowledge products and training material, usually labelled as “printed eAtlas”, which have been developed and shared with Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) under the Voice for Change Partnership (V4CP) programme.

The EU and Multilateral Security Governance
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 210

The EU and Multilateral Security Governance

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-03-05
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This book studies the role of the EU in peace and security as a regional actor with global aspirations, in the context of challenged and changing multilateralism. Multilateralism, governance and security are three concepts that have attracted a great deal of attention in the past decade and attempts to redefine them have produced lively conceptual debates. More recently, different strands of the literature have found common ground in the investigation of the EU’s role in what has been labelled ‘multilateral security governance’. Despite being frequently used, the term is yet to be fully clarified, and empirically explored. To contribute further our understanding of it, this book presen...