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Building Futures Intelligence Capacity through Education
Developing a generic undergraduate futures education sequence and its application to business (Peter) and teacher education (Caroline)
Organisation: Millennium Project South African Node International Futures Conference
Publish Date: 2007
Building long-term scenarios for development: The methodological state of the art with an application to foreign direct investment in Africa
This paper was produced in the context of a research project funded by the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) that seeks to evaluate the applicability of methods of future
Organisation: German Development Instit.
Publish Date: 2008
Building Sustainable Small-Scale Agriculture In Southern Africa
Improving the efficiency of the agriculture sector is an essential step towards sustainable development and poverty reduction, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. However, advances in agriculture have
Organisation: International Finance Corporation - World Bank Group
Publish Date: December 2010
Building the future: infrastructure in Nigeria until 2040
Nigeria’s basic physical infrastructure deficit severely undermines the country’s prospects for economic growth and development. Looking to the future, rapid population growth will compound the chall
Organisation: The Institute for Security Studies (ISS) and Frederick S. Pardee Center for International Futures
Publish Date: December 2017
Cairo’s Informal Areas: Between Urban Challenges and Hidden Potentials – Facts, Voices, Visions
The initial idea of this book was to give a voice to all—or at least most—of the stakeholders in informal area development. The intention was to ensure that the thoughts and opinions of the residents
Organisation: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ)
Publish Date: 2009
Can Low-Income Countries in Africa Afford Social Transfers?
Social protection can have a positive impact on growth in developing countries in a number of ways. It can finance investment in health and education, protect assets that help people earn an income,
Organisation: Economic Policy Research Institute
Publish Date: 2006
Can technology deliver on the yield challenge to 2050?
Addresses the questions of crop yields 40 years ahead through the analysis of cereal yields and productivity. It does so by tracing recent sources of growth and identifying future technological oppor
Organisation: FAO Expert Meeting on How to Feed the World in 2050
Publish Date: June 2009
Cape Town 2025: Urban Form and Infrastructure
This paper expounds the need to return to a normative position in post apartheid Cape Town that engenders a developmental agenda from the highest political levels to the immediacy of critical deliver
Organisation: ISANDLA Institute
Publish Date: July 2005
Capital requirements of developing countries’ agriculture to 2050
Reports on ongoing work at FAO to estimate investment requirements in developing countries’ agriculture. Estimates cover most capital items, but do not single out areas for public involvement of eith
Organisation: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Global Perspective Studies Unit, FAO
Publish Date: June 2009
Case Study: Use of Scenarios to Understand the Daily Activities of Senior Citizens interacting with Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing
Aging populations are a phenomenon that industrialized nations have had to start addressing in recent decades. To understand the needs of an aging population, designers, architects and city planners
Organisation: California State University
Publish Date: May 2012