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Based on a comprehensive review of the theoretical and empirical literature, this book identifies and analyzes four "pure" strategies that can be employed to manage food price instability. It is intended for policy-makers, researchers, teachers, students, and all those interested in price

Family farms are central to both contemporary changes and contradictions in agriculture. They have been, and are still, the crucible for a whole host of agricultural innovations and major revolutions. They form the social basis of most Southern countries and contribute to supplying their local

This paper inquires into the nature of “participation” as a cross-section set of principles now applied to many issues of global concern. It argues that “participation” is a type of “global discourse” that is central to current forms of global governance, as well as to debates on, and around

It is generally agreed the last public-private partnership in which EDM was engaged, from 2000 to 2005, was a "resounding failure": international donors, professionals, and the totality of the Malian population are in agreement on this matter. The present study is opposed to such interpretations

This report is part of a study carried out by the AFD Research Department on vocational training in the informal sector in seven African countries, which are, in alphabetical order, South Africa, Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Morocco and Senegal

Cameroon was originally chosen as one of the five sample countries for the field survey on vocational training in the informal sector because it stands out among the subSaharan African countries

GEFOP is a group of vocational training experts set up by the AFD. It brings together vocational training researchers, managers and practitioners from Europe, Africa and Asia, as well as training specialists from international organisations. The contribution to the 2007 World Development Report

The innovative World Bank Report Mind, Society, and Behavior (WDR 2015) offers great prospects, focusing on the way in which human beings act according to the meaning they give to situations in which they find themselves. It does consider this way of acting as obeying forms of rationality that

In 2014, Africa accounted for 16% of the world’s population, less than 6% of energy consumption and 3% of greenhouse gas emissions. With an average annual economic growth rate of 4.5% over the past five years, Africa is experiencing increasing demand for energy and a significant need for

Since 2008, the countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have been affected by different kinds of shocks. The international financial crisis and then the euro-zone sovereign debt crisis have brought on a sharp slowdown in the growth of goods and services exports from the MENA countries