Tackling rural poverty, together

Presentation held during the Donor Consultation Workshop on WDR 2008 in Washington, D.C. on December, 8, 2006. It claims that agriculture is on the one hand a large contributor to climate change (emissions from ruminants, rice paddies) and it offers hu ...

Presentation held during the Donor Consultation Workshop on WDR 2008 in Washington, D.C. on December, 8, 2006. The central position of the strategy, elaborated by the WDR-team so far, is the primacy of agriculture as a growth strategy that should, in f ...

Presentation held during the Donor Consultation Workshop on WDR 2008 in Washington, D.C. on December, 8, 2006, on the contributions of the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development to WDR 2008. These include the information exchange between the WDR-t ...

In the opening presentation of the Donor Consultation Workshop on WDR 2008 in Washington, D.C. on December, 8, 2006, Derek Byerlee, co-editor of the WDR 2008, gave an overview on the time schedule for WDR 2008, its context, and the five roles of agricu ...

Minutes of the Donor Consultation Workshop on World Development Report 2008, held on Friday, December 8, 2006 in Washington, D.C.

Synthesis report of our General Meeting 2006 in Washington, D.C.

Presentation on the African Enterprise Challenge Fund - its objective, rationale, its contribution to African agriculture and its competitive advantages, held by Anuradha Bajaj (DFID) during our General Meeting 2006 in Washington.

Presentation on the institutional framework of CAADP, delivered by Sonja Bartelt (Platform Secretariat) during our General Meeting 2006 in Washington.

Presentation on challenges and opportunities for harmonisation and agricultural research in Africa, held by David Howlett (DFID) during our General Meeting 2006 in Washington.

Presentation of this joint initiative from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation - goals, approach and focus on the Program for Africa's Seed Systems (PASS); held by Peter Matlon (Rockefeller Foundation) during our Genera ...