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May 2006

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  1. IFPRI Materials
    Information and Communication Technologies for Development and Poverty Reduction -- The Potential of Telecommunications
    The book Information and Communication Technologies for Development and Poverty Reduction--The Potential of Telecommunications, edited by Maximo Torero and Joachim von Braun, describes how the development and proliferation of telecommunication technologies has accelerated economic and social change across all areas of human activity. While ICTs remains concentrated largely in the developed world, ICT diffusion is beginning to reach developing countries, including poor rural areas, bringing with it high hopes of positive development outcomes.
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  2. IFPRI Dataset
    Burkina Faso PNDSA II Impact Analysis Baseline Survey, 2002-2003
    This survey was conducted by the Center for Studies and Research on International Development (CERDI) at the University of Auvergne, University of California at Berkeley, and University of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. The funding was provided by the Trust Fund for Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development (TFESSD) of the World Bank. The dataset is the baseline survey for the impact evaluation of the Programme National de Services Agricoles (PNDSA II) in Burkina Faso and its objective was to strengthen the capacity of Rural Producers Organizations (POs) to provide services for their members. The program also created PO councils at the district-level "Départements" in Burkina Faso. The sampling design included agro-ecological areas in the North, the Central North, the West, the South, and the Southeast. The topics covered information at the village and household levels; on all POs in the village; and on cotton, trade, horticulture, and other agricultureal activities undertaken by the POs. A related survey is Senegal PSAOP Impact Analysis Baseline Survey, 2002-2003, which used similar questionnaires in Senegal.
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  3. FAOSTAT
    FAOSTAT, the FAO statistical database, is an online multilingual database currently containing over 3 million time-series records from over 210 countries and territories covering agriculture, nutrition, fisheries, forestry, food aid, land use, and population. It provides comparative, comprehensive, accurate, and up-to-date statistical information. Policy formulators, decisionmakers, FAO staff, researchers, private enterprise, and the public at large use FAOSTAT as a data source and analytical tool.
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  4. Achieving Food and Nutrition Security: Actions to Meet the Global Challenge -- A Training Course Reader
    The manual, based on revised and updated background papers for a training workshop, was produced by Internationale Weiterbildung und Entwicklung gGmbH (InWEnt). It provides information to development professionals on relevant political, economic, social, and cultural principles related to evaluating and analyzing food and nutrition security.
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  5. Bibliography on Food Security, Peace Palace Library
    The bibliography was originally compiled by Hugo van Hamel, Rens Steenhard, and Hans Thyssen in August 2003. It includes resources, mainly on agriculture, environmental and socioeconomic issues; globalization and trade-related issues; human rights; conflicts, international security and co-operation; humanitarian issues; food safety; and other issues. It is updated regularly with new titles.
    Email: Hugo van Hamel at h.hamel@ppl.nl; Rens Steenhard at r.steenhard@ppl.nl; and Hans Thyssen at h.thijssen@ppl.nl.
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  6. Poverty and Conservation Learning Group (PCLG)
    PCLG is a forum for facilitating mutual learning between key stakeholders on conservation–poverty linkages. The group promotes good practice through information provision and dissemination, and influences policy change through learning activities to organizations working on conservation–poverty linkages. It provides several fully searchable databases (for bibliographies, organizations, initiatives, and case studies).
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