12.06.2006
Food aid in Niger arrived too late in 2005, despite widespread predictions that famine was imminent. The world has known for months that famine is also coming to southern Africa but policymakers are still not responding to the warnings. Read more about the importance of early warning in food security in Niger in the latest id21 insights.
12.06.2006
The South and Southeast Asia Resource Centre on Sexuality is hosting an eight-week electronic discussion forum on Sexual Concerns Approaches and Management.
12.06.2006
Recent developments in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) field are positively changing ways research is being done in the world and may be used to improve food distribution networks, development of population surveys and censuses and expansion of early warning systems in Africa.
12.06.2006
UK Department for International Development (DFID) has recently released the second Institutional Strategy between the Department and the UN World Food Programme (WFP). According to DFID, "the partnership is testament to the critical importance both organisations attach to reducing the rising number of people suffering from hunger and malnutrition."
12.06.2006
The proliferation and use of information and communication technologies (ICT) present opportunities and challenges to us all; not just to large countries and developed countries but also to developing islands and small states.
12.06.2006
A large volume of rainfall data from various locations and an Australian Rainman software package enabled scientists at the Department of Agricultural Meteorology at the Directorate of Soil and Crop Management Studies at the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University to put together the seasonal rainfall forecast for the South West Monsoon.
12.06.2006
Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI), at a meeting under the chairmanship of its President M. A Momen held in the DCCI Auditorium on yesterday to review the Proposed National Budget, 2006-2007 welcomed the budget as a positive one to achieve the targets of SME development and poverty reduction as enshrined in the PRSP.
