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- Wamala, Caroline
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Hoes, tractors and information technologies
- 2011
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Ingår i: Annual Report : 2010: The rise of Africa: miracle or mirage?. - Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet. - 1104-5256. ; 2010, s. 30-30
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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| 1082. |
- Watson, James, et al.
(författare)
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The Starbucks/Ethiopian coffee saga : geographical indications as a linchpin for development in developing countries
- 2008
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- A coalition of Ethiopian coffee producers and the Ethiopian Intellectual Property Office (EIPO) set up a programme to acquire trademarks in important export markets, with a view to increasing the profits on these brands for the producers. In March 2005, the Ethiopian government filed its first US trademark applications for three contested coffee names. After 15 months the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) agreed that the name Sidamo was generic and therefore could not be trademarked. This led to an outcry by some commentators, including NGOs and Intellectual Property Rights professionals. Yet, the arguments in favour of protecting indigenous knowledge under international trade rules as a linchpin for economic development and poverty eradication has been forcefully put forward by African countries and other developing countries in both regional trade negotiations and at the World Trade Organization. With the Ethiopian and Starbucks dispute in mind, James Watson and Jeremy Streatfeild eloquently explain in this piece how geographical indications can be used to enhance the capacity of farmers and economic development in Africa and other least developed countries.
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| 1083. |
- Watson, Vanessa
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Conflicting rationalities in Cape Town: Power at the interface
- 2012
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Lecture filmed 7 March 2012, Uppsala, Sweden. Part of the conference 'Remaking the city: Life and planning at the informal/formal interface'. Speaker: Professor Vanessa Watson, University of Cape Town. The film is 34 minutes long.
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| 1084. |
- Watuleke, Joseph
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The Role of Food Banks in Food Security in Uganda : the Case of the Hunger Project Food Bank, Mbale Epicentre
- 2015
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This study addresses the role the food bank plays in food security, sustainable livelihoods and building resilience to climate change among smallholder farmers in Uganda, and in particular eastern Uganda. Currently, it is difficult to measure the socioeconomic impact of the food bank on smallholder farmers in eastern Uganda due to the difficulty of isolating its contribution from that of interrelated programmes and farmer activities. It is, however, evident that the food bank plays a significant role in improving the smallholder farmers’ food production and incomes. The food bank is actively engaged in training smallholder farmers in modern farming methods, providing improved seeds and safe storage facilities for farmers’ produce, helping farmers to diversify their livelihood sources and providing climate-related information. Prolonged drought and lack of access to sufficient seeds of good quality are the main sources of food insecurity among smallholder farmers. Distance from the food bank and lack of access to information are among the other factors that affected many farmers’ ability to participate in food bank activities. Community ownership of the food bank is still lacking, and this is a long term threat to the sustainability of the project. There is therefore an urgent need to establish community-managed food banks at lower levels that ensure community ownership; equitably distribute benefits among target farmers; encourage seed-saving among farmers; initiate community-supported agriculture programmes to improve access to farm credit; and invest in rainwater harvesting for irrigation.
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| 1085. |
- Weiss, Holger
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Begging and almsgiving in Ghana : Muslim positions towards poverty and distress
- 2007
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The vast majority of Muslims in Africa generally do not 'objectify' concepts such as poverty and religion in discussion. Poverty is a situation for 'ordinary' poor people in rural or urban poor areas where people seek to make marginal gains in income to avoid ever-threatening destitution and social disintegration. Most of these 'ordinary' poor people, especially poor and illiterate women, do not really believe that things can change. There exists, however, in all Muslim societies and communities in Africa a minority that criticize social and political conditions in society with the stated aim of striving for an Islamic solution to poverty and injustice. The common denominator for this group is that they are urban educated Muslims, having both a traditional educational background and, usually but not always, a modern, secular one, too. For them, the concept of poverty more readily forms part of a religious discourse involving feasible strategies for change. Their basic idea is to highlight the possibilities of generating new forms of financial resources by combining Islamic ethics and norms with a modern development-oriented outlook. Their vision is the usability of obligatory almsgiving in a modern context, namely that, instead of the traditional individual-centred 'person-to-person' charities, zakāt or obligatory almsgiving should be directed to become the source of communal and collective societal improvement. This study focuses on the conditions of poverty and the debate among Muslims in Ghana, a West African country with a substantial but largely economically and politically marginalized Muslim population.
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| 1086. |
- Weiss, Herbert F.
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Krig och fred i Demokratiska republiken Kongo
- 2000
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- En skildring av det aktuella läget i Demokratiska Republiken Kongo (f.d. Zaire) som visar hur förutsättningarna för den nuvarande händelseutvecklingen kan spåras till Kongokrisen i början av 1960-talet.
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| 1087. |
- Weiss, Herbert F.
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War and peace in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- 2000
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- A report on the last years' events in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which have transformed the country into an arena of international and internal violence and conflict involving so many participants that it can be described as the first African continental war. The study also contains a historical background to the recent events in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Western middle powers and global poverty : the determinants of the aid policies of Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden
- 1989
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This study attempts to answer why the policies of the five countries covered are marked by a greater degree of "humane internationalism" than those of other Western countries. It discusses what it is that causes the variations between the policies of these five countries. By humane internationalism the authors understand an acknowledgement that rich countries have an obligation to alleviate poverty in the Third World and that fair North-South relations are in the best long-term interest of the North.
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