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Emerging issues in science and technology for Africa's development : science, technology and innovation for meeting key MDGs
(2005-10)
Achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and sustainable development in Africa constitute major challenges including poverty reduction, food security, health, water and sanitation, productivity and international ...
Michelin road maps of Africa
(1963-06)
The Michelin Touring Services have long been interested in African
cartography; indeed, their first road map for the African countries was produced in 1929.Michelin publications on Africa are of two kinds;
Africa in 3 ...
Report of the Third Meeting of the Committee on Sustainable Development
(2003-12)
The paper showed that the rapid growth and unprecedented influence of new technologies
was already raising global awareness of the power of technology to lift the poor out of poverty.
It urged African countries to invest ...
Making science and technology work for the poor and for sustainable development in Africa : parliamentary documentation
(2003-08)
The importance of Science and Technology to modern societies, and the role of a technologically informed population in promoting social and economic development, have long been recognized. Further advances in technology ...
La science et la technologie au service des pauvres et du développement durable en Afrique
(2003-10)
L'Afrique fait face à de graves problèmes dans le domaine de la sécurité alimentaire bien plus graves que dans n'importe quelle autre région du monde. Les deux-tiers des pays touchés par l'insécurité alimentaire sont des ...
Aide Memoire : " AD- HOC expert meeting on science and technology issues for sustainable development: principles, methodology and strategy for promoting the African green revolution (16-18 November 2004, Addis Ababa)
(2004-11)
Science and technology are at the core of food security and sustainable development. In the agricultural sector in Africa, key challenges remain in increasing agricultural production and delivery through the harnessing of ...
Aide Memoire (opening statement by Josuè Dionè) : " AD- HOC expert meeting on science and technology issues for sustainable development: principles, methodology and strategy for promoting the African green revolution (16-18 November 2004, Addis Ababa)
(2004-11)
The pursuit of a Green Revolution in Africa can only proceed from a full recognition of the complexity arising from the diversity of agro-ecological zones, farming systems and socio-cultural contexts of the continent. It ...
Aide memoire : making technology work for the poor
(2003-09)
The CSD was created to serve as a forum of experts that would provide advice to ECA in the interlinked areas of food security, population, environment, and human settlements. The CSD addressed specific measures to promote ...
Report of the ad hoc expert group meeting on science and technology issues for sustainable development : principles, methodology and strategy for promoting the African green revolution
(2004-11)
The Ad Hoc Expert Group meeting on Science and Technology Issues for Sustainable Development - Principles, Methodology and Strategy for Promoting the African Green Revolution - was held in the United Nations Conference ...
Science and technology for food security and sustainable development : management of technology in newly industrialising countries: lessons for Africa
(2001-06)
Technological development has been recognized as the key driving lucre in economic
development not only in industrially advanced countries but also in Newly Industrializing
Countries (NICs). Korea, for instance, suffered ...