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- Participatory technology development in agricultural mechanisation in Nepal: how it happened and lessons learned
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International Wheat and Maize Improvement Center (CIMMYT) projects on new resource-conservation technologies (RCTs) in the Indo-Gangetic Plains of Nepal aimed to strengthen equity of access, poverty reduction, and gender orientation in current rural mecha ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:00
- Using multi-dimensional scaling to promote dialogue among development professionals in conference settings
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Conferences are typically organised around specialist presentations and panel discussions in ways that do not foster broad participation or effective knowledge-sharing. The paper describes a computer-based method to facilitate focused dialogue among parti ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:03
- Changing the world of development research? An insight into theory and practice
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Development research has been through many stages over the past few decades and during this time has experienced fluctuating appreciation by development practice. There is an increasing gap between different ways of doing development research. For some, ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2010-11-07 18:03
- Help or hindrance: the role of UK-based NGOs in building technological capability in small-scale development projects
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Technological capability underpins economic development, but analysis of interviews with workers in international, UK-based NGOs suggests that it is rarely addressed explicitly when considering support for development work. Instead, the core values of the ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:55
- Mobile phones and community development: a contact zone between media and citizenship
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Mobile cellular phones have already been used widely around the world for activism, social and economic development, and new cultural and communicative forms. Despite this widespread use of mobile phones, they remain a relatively un-theorised and un-dis ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-01 11:43
- Information affluence for the developing world: the vision and work of WorldSpace
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The author, founder and Chairman of WorldSpace Corporation, describes the creation of the WorldSpace Foundation to promulgate access to information in the developing world. WorldSpace has launched a digital radio service, and has gained licences to broadc ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:01
- The Internet and the South: Superhighway or Dirt Track?
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Author: Panos Media Briefing Paper No. 16 Issue: ...
Book review - admin - 2009-10-18 20:54
- Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for gender and development
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This article discusses the burgeoning field of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), with a particular focus on the opportunities for its application as part of the international women and development agenda. We discuss recent theoretical developments i ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:45
- Indigenous floating cultivation: a sustainable agricultural practice in the wetlands of Bangladesh
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Floating-bed cultivation has proved a successful means to produce agricultural crops in different wetland areas of the world. In freshwater lakes and wetlands, vegetables, flowers and seedlings are grown in Bangladesh using this floating cultivation techn ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:03
- The impact of agricultural research: evidence from West Africa
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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 fo ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2010-11-09 12:25