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Population policies, environment and sustainable development in the ECA region
(1998-06)
This paper states that presentation at the Nexus Seminar, North Africa Sub-Regional Development Center, Tangier (Morocco) 26-29 June 1998. It is common knowledge that, following the second world war, the phenomenon of rapid ...
Report : eighteenth meeting of the conference of ministers
(1992-04)
The twenty-seventh session of the Commission/eighteenth meeting of the Conference of Ministers responsible for economic development and planning was held at Addis Ababa, from 20 to 23 April 1992. The meeting was formally ...
Problems related to sustainable development and utilization of natural resources and energy in Africa : strategies for inter-country cooperation in the context of agenda 21
(1996-06)
The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) which was held in Rio de Janiero in 1992 was milestone that laid the ground rules for policy-makers of the world to ensure harmony between development ...
Strategies for sustainable development
(1992-10)
In contrast to the first decade following independence, Africa's development performance during the last two decades has been uniformly bleak. In response to the severity of the problem, desperate attempts have been made ...
Mineral resources development and the environment in Africa
(1991-02)
Minerals embrace all non-living substances extracted from the earth for use by man. Generally, these economic minerals include the energy fuels (coal, oi1^ natural gas and uranium); metals; and non-metals (or industrial ...
Report on the effectiveness of regional and subregional development projects in the agricultural and rural sector, with particular emphasis on environment and sustained development
(1992-03)
The agricultural and rural sector is very important in Africa and enormous efforts have been made to develop it, not only at the national level, but also at the regional and subregional level. However, despite this, the ...
Evaluation of rural development experiences in Africa : the case of Sudan
(1990-11)
Physical characteristics: The Sudan Is the largest country in Africa with about 2, 5 million km2 of land. The major part of the Nile River is found within the Sudan running from south to north. The huge water resources of ...
Report of the first meeting of the Committee on Sustainable Development
(1999-03)
The first meeting of the Committee on Sustainable Development (CSD) was held at the Conference Center, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 25 to 29 January 1999. The CSD was created by the Conference of African Ministers responsible ...
The performance of the African energy sector and the development in the energy scene in the nineties
(1995-10)
The performance of the African energy sector and forecast of the energy supply and consumption patterns for the future are on agenda of all regional development programmes adopted by African member States from the Lagos ...
Report on the first African regional conference on environment and sustainable development held in Kampala, Uganda, 12-16 June 1989
(1990-02)
As a result of the increasing deterioration in the state of the world's environment, the United Nations General Assembly, by resolution 38/161 adopted at its thirty-eighth session, decided to set up a World Commission on ...