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1 January 2009
Published by: STEPS Centre
This paper summarises findings of the STEPS Environmental Change and Maize Innovation in Kenya project. Maize is an important staple crop in Kenya, socially, politically and economically.
Research from the Centre for Social Protection and UNICEF shows how successful social protection programmes are built
This DFID-funded project gathered evidence from DR Congo, Kenya, Nigeria and Sierra Leone to improve the understanding of senior international policy makers and practitioners on how best to provide support before, during and after elections in contexts seeking to establish legitimate governments.
1 July 2008
Published by: IDS
Food safety has moved up the policy agenda in industrialised countries in recent years. Governments have tightened both product and process standards, and businesses have had to respond to ever more stringent public food safety standards and the need to maintain consumer confidence. Private voluntary standards developed by groups of companies are one response to this challenge.
1 January 2008
Published by: IDS
In response to a call from the G8 in Gleneagles (2005) to climate proof development assistance, DFID has piloted climate risk assessments of its development portfolios in Bangladesh, India, and Kenya, and selected non-DFID funded water sector programmes in China.
1 January 2008
Published by: IDS
Intimate-partner violence involves multiple violations of sexual and reproductive
rights, with devastating impacts on the health and...
1 January 2008
Published by: IDS
Food safety has moved up the policy agenda in industrialised countries in recent
years. Governments have tightened both product and...
1 January 2007
Published by: IGAD Livestock Policy Initiative
1 January 2006
Published by: IDS
PUBLISHED JANUARY 2007
1 October 2005
Published by: IDS
This IDS Bulletin aims to provide policy-relevant research insights for a wide range of actors interested in climate change adaptation. It brings together results from a recently completed interdisciplinary research project, the Linking Climate Adaptation Project, about how vulnerable communities might respond to the impacts of climate change.