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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

Today, development actors see urban heritage as a resource for their territory, which is why they need to define its economic value. This evaluation is a delicate exercise as such patrimony is generally a complex reality, consisting of four interdependent economic, cultural, social and

The political will to promote industry in Egypt has thus been affirmed for many years, under a variety of strategies. To what extent has Egypt’s industrial performance matched the effort invested? Has not the country’s political commitment to industrialisation run afoul of economic reality? This

To pursue the present path in the development of energy systems would lead to growing insecurity of supply and an unacceptable increase in greenhouse gas emissions. Both climate change (and other environmental hazards) and security of supply would rapidly become formidable obstacles to peace and

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

This document is a summary of the final report on the external evaluation of 15 years of support actions by Agence Française de Développement and the French Facility for Global Environment – FFGE in agroecology (in practice, on Direct Seeding Mulch-based Cropping systems – DMC). The evaluation was