PRESS RELEASE – EMBARGO - MONDAY 17th FEBRUARY 2014 Google and SolarAid announce research partnership to explore the impact of solar technology on poverty alleviation in Africa. Monday 17th February 2014: Today Google

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• SolarAid
• Development
• Sustainability
• Energy
• Solar lamp
• International development
• Renewable energy policy
• Sustainable development

NRI Commentary Population boom in urban areas: Challenge to keep pace with increasing demand for housing and land By Vincent Pyati* EXPERTS have predicted that urban populations in Africa and Asia will double, such that

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• Affordable housing
• Real estate
• Poverty
• Socioeconomics
• Urbanization
• Public housing
• Squatting
• Urban planning
• Human geography
• Urban decay
• Urban studies and planning

A SADC Sheriff to police anti-competitive behaviour – is it the way to go, or not? Londiwe Senona, Tsholofelo Letsike, and Constance Jiki* Abstract “South Africa cannot be an island in the sea of poverty; hence our d

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• International relations
• African Union
• Development
• Southern African Development Community
• African Economic Community
• Regional Economic Communities
• Customs union
• Competition law
• Economic union
• International trade
• Africa
• Economic integration

HOUSING SUPPORT SERVICES FOR HOUSING MICROFINANCE LENDING IN EAST AND SOUTHERN AFRICA: A Case Study of WAT Human Settlements Trust (WAT-HST) / WAT Savings and Credit Cooperative Society (WAT-SACCOS) By Anthea Houston Jul

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• Poverty
• Microfinance
• Economics
• Economy of Tanzania
• Microfinance in Tanzania
• Development

Linkages between Land Management, Land Degradation, and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa The Case of Uganda Ephraim Nkonya, John Pender, Kayuki C. Kaizzi, Edward Kato, Samuel Mugarura, Henry Ssali, and James Muwonge

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• Humanitarian aid
• Food politics
• Environmental social science
• Environmentalism
• Sustainability
• Poverty reduction
• Poverty
• International Food Policy Research Institute
• Sustainable land management
• Environment
• Development
• Knowledge

International  Platform Boosting commercial sorghum production and marketing with the “aggregator model” How can the private sector contribute to the fight against hunger, poverty and malnutrition in the remote are

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• Food and drink
• Sorghum
• Commercial sorghum
• Land management
• Food security
• Sub-Saharan Africa
• CGIAR
• Agriculture in Senegal
• Cereals
• Tropical agriculture
• Agriculture

1 Regional project on improving labour market statistics and reinforcing information management on labour market and poverty reduction information systems in Africa. Training workshop on Website Design, Implementation

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grounded Maria’s Message. When someone asks me what I most like about working at Common Ground, I’d be lying if I didn’t include the Monday cooking group. It gives you some insight into my love of food – but I as

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• Housing
• South Africa
• Homelessness
• Common Ground
• Adelaide
• Supportive housing
• Port Adelaide Football Club
• Nelson Mandela
• Elizabeth Street Common Ground
• Poverty
• Affordable housing
• Homelessness in the United States

Cairo Declaration on Managing Africa’s Natural Capital for Sustainable Development and Poverty Eradication We, African ministers of the environment, Having met in Cairo from 4 to 6 March 2015 at the fifteenth session o

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• Sustainable Development
• United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development
• United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
• United Nations Environment Programme
• United Nations Forum on Forests
• Forest Day
• Environment
• United Nations
• Forestry

MORNING SESSION SUMMARY – DELIVERING A FUTURE THROUGH THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS Mayra Buvinic, Sector Director for Gender and Development, World Bank Mayra Buvinic is Sector Director for Gender and Development,

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• Millennium Development Goals
• Economics
• International development
• Maternal health
• Poverty reduction
• Gender equality
• Reproductive health
• Education in Africa
• Development
• Poverty
• Socioeconomics