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  1. Library Resource
    Women's Digital Inclusion

    Background paper for the G20

    Conference Papers & Reports
    September, 2018
    Global

    The internet has great potential to promote women’s digital inclusion and gender equality, one of the pillars of sustainable development. But it can also pose new challenges to women’s rights and personal security, both online and offline.

    This briefing, jointly published by the Internet Society and the Association for Progressive Communications (APC), outlines ways in which policy makers can facilitate the internet’s positive potential through an enabling framework for women’s digital inclusion:

  2. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    December, 2010
    Latvia, Spain

    In this paper solutions are proposed to improve the performance of a wheeled robot for rural environment. These solutions can be used for a wheeled mobile robot that moves upon curved surfaces, surfaces with irregularities and small coefficient of static friction between the wheels and the surface. The design and control of the robot are based on a new concept of a wheeled mobile robot, which can work in two different modes.

  3. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    December, 1990

    Presents and discusses research results on feed resources, agroindustrial by-products utilisation, forage production, use of crop residues, dairy feeding systems, feeding strategies, introduction and adoption of improved forage technologies, nutritive value of different forages, effects of management on animal performance, effect of supplements on feed utilisation, potential of agricultural by-products as animal feeds, and effects of management on pasture grasses & legumes; and evaluates the utilisation of these results by smallholders.

  4. Library Resource

    Lessons from the case studies on what might work on the ground.

    Conference Papers & Reports
    November, 2001
    Africa, South Africa

    Communal tenure in South Africa has had rises and falls in favour. This section will look at the issue from a pragmatic perspective of choice. This involves assessing what issues inform whether South Africa can chose either to replace or to ignore communal tenure by analysing what is likely to remain the same politically, socially and economically for the foreseeable future and what the forces are changing this situation. This assessment then allows us to assert some practical, general principles that inform the two projects with which this paper is concerned. 

  5. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    May, 2006
    Tunisia, Northern Africa

    During the last two decades, the Tunisian government has engaged in a vast program for the conservation and mobilization of natural resources. In the Jeffara region, which encompasses the study site, huge works for soil and water conservation (water harvesting) have been implemented whose immediate effects are visible but their efficiency in both the short and the long term need to be assessed and evaluated in detail (De Graaff J. and Ouessar M., 2002).

  6. Library Resource

    Knowledge constructed in dialogue

    Conference Papers & Reports
    June, 2018
    South Africa

    In March 2018, The South African Cities Network (SACN) hosted its second Urban Land Dialogues Series in the provinces of Gauteng, Eastern Cape and Western Cape. The dialogues took place during a week when land was receiving widespread attention, as all eyes were on the Gordon Institute of Business Science in Illovo where the President had convened a Summit to discuss details of agrarian land expropriation without compensation policy,Under the overarching theme of inclusive urban land transformation, the aim of these dialogues was to build better shared understandings of the many issues that

  7. Library Resource
    Report cover

    Agenda of the UK Land Policy Forum meeting held on 2 November 2017

    Conference Papers & Reports
    November, 2017
    Global

    This is the agenda of the UK Land Policy Forum meeting held on 2 November 2017.

  8. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    October, 2015
    Mozambique

    Oportunidades, Desafios, e Prioridades.

  9. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    June, 2015
    China, Eastern Asia

    Paddy rice agriculture affects food supply, climate, water, biodiversity, and ecosystems. It varies substantially over time and space, for example, continuous expansion in northeastern China and rapid loss in southern China in the past decades. However, no maps at fine spatial resolution (e.g., 30-m) are available to document and illustrate the spatial patterns and temporal dynamics of paddy rice planting areas in China.

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