By Making It on 17 November, 2012
Three perspectives on a major challenge confronting the countries of the Middle East and North Africa.
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged Arab Spring, Dead Sea, éducation, Egypt, employment, entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship, Facebook revolution, higher education colleges, imed drine, innovation, International Finance Corporation, Islamic Development Bank, Jordan Forum for Business and Professional Women, Jordan’s University of Science and Technology, labour force, labour-intensive, Maharat Employment and Training Programme, Making It, Marrakech, MENA, Middle East, Mohamed Abaran, Morocco, North afria, private sector, Queen Rania’s Centre for Entrepreneurship, Sarah Khalid, Saudi Arabia, social exclusion, Syria, Tawjihi, technology, training, Tunisia, unemployment, university, wider, Yemen, youth
By Making It on 11 July, 2011
Biodynamic agriculture is not only the way to address major challenges such as climate change and food security, but is also the only way to achieve long-term competitiveness
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged agribusiness, agriculture, biodynamic, capacity, chemical fertilizers, climate change, competitiveness, compost, cost, crop failure, desertification, developing countries, eco-intensification, ecosystems, Egypt, employment, energy, enhance, environment, farming systems, food prices, food security, foodstuffs, fresh water sources, Global, globalization, health, healthcare systems, Helmy Abouleish, holistic, Industrial Development, innovation, intensive, International, issue 6, jobs, labour, livestock, living, machinery, Making It, national, Olliver de Schutter, organic, pesticides, pollution, production, rural, SEKEM, social, soil erosion, supermarkets, surplus, sustainability, sustainable, technology, UN, UNIDO, United Nations, urban, world, yields
By Making It on 6 July, 2011
UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Olivier De Schutter, pushes for more innovative designs for the global food system
Posted in All Posts, Policy Brief | Tagged Africa, agribusiness, agriculture, agro-ecology, architect, build, climate change, co2, commodities, crisis, deforestation, design, developing countries, distaster, domestic supply, donor contributions, Egypt, export, farmers, feed, fight, food crises, food security, foreign producers, France, future, g20, global food system, government, greenhouse gas emissions, health care, human rights, humanitarian supplies, hunger, import, Industrial Development, infrastructure, innovation, insecurity, International, investment, living wage, Making It magazine, market, Mozambique, Olivier De Schutter, organizations, peak prices, politics, population growth, poverty, prices, producers, protection, reinsurance mechanism, remedy, reserves, Robert Zoellick, root causes, safety, safety nets, shock, social-protection programmes, solution, Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, srfood.org, stable revenue, Sub-Saharan Africa, sustainability, symptoms, technology, trade, trend, UN, UNIDO, United Nations, value chains, World Bank
By Making It on 23 June, 2011
Lina Abou-Habib asks if revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa can be a vehicle for the economic empowerment of women, or whether patriarchy will prevail
Posted in All Posts, Global Forum | Tagged accountability, agribusiness, agriculture, Arab Spring, Ben Ali, change, Collective for Research and Training on Development-Action, CRTDA, developing countries, dictator, discrimination, economy, Egypt, equality, feminism, gender, gender equality, impunity, Industrial Development Organization, Iran, issue 6, labour, leadership, liberation, Lina Abou-Habib, Making It magazine, market, MENA, Middle East, North Africa, patriarchy, policy, politics, post-revolution era, power, prejudice, public sphere, religion, revolution, social institutions, society, Tahrir Square, transformation, Tunisia, UN, UNIDO, United Nations, violence, women, Yemen
By Making It on 22 June, 2011
This issue of Making It: Industry for Development looks at some aspects of the broad concept of agribusiness, often defined as the whole range of business activities that are performed from farm to fork, but also including the processing of raw materials for the production of many non-food items, such as textiles, paper and biofuel. [...]
Posted in The Magazine | Tagged ADM, Africa, agribusiness, agriculture, Archer Daniels Midland, biodiversity, biofuel, business, carbon emissions, Cargill, coca, Colombia, consumer, development, distribution, efficiency, Egypt, energy, farmers, food, globalization, growth, Guillermo Garcia, Helmy Abouleish, hunger, India, Industrial Development Organization, Industry for development, Johanna Sorrell, Kanayo Nwanze, magazine, Making It, organic, palm oil, paper, Patrick Kormawa, Paul Bulcke, population, poverty, sustainability, sustainable, textile, UN, UNIDO, United Nations, value changes, Vandana Shiva, water scarcity
By Making It on 14 June, 2011
Rapid growth in the reach of supermarkets, locally and globally, is changing agribusiness. Kanayo Nwanze argues that smallholder farmers must have opportunities to be entrepreneurs, rather than bystanders.
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged 2011, agribusiness, agricultural markets, agro-processors, Cairo, challenge, change, development, donor, economy, Egypt, employment, entrepreneur, evolving, food, fundamental, Global, globalization, government, hunger, IFAD, improvement, Industrial Development Organization, international fund for agricultural development, issue 6, jobs, Kanayo Nwanze, keynote, local, Making It magazine, marginalization, MDG, Millennium Development Goal, modern, opportunity, partnership, poor, population, poverty, private sector, products, profit, progress, rapid growth, resources, rural, Rural Poverty Report, smallholder farmer, solution, supermarkets, supplier, systems, UNIDO, United Nations, value chains, work
By Making It on 1 February, 2011
How making industrial processes energy- and water-efficient, resilient, and sustainable, is essential to meet the industrial objectives of tomorrow
Posted in All Posts, Policy Brief | Tagged adaptation, Africa, AREED, Asia, Canadá, capacity, Centre for Electronic Governance, change, Chavuma, China, clean energy, competitiveness, design, development, dialogue, Egypt, energy, enterprise, Enterprise Europe Network, entrepreneur, EU, Europe, experience, finance, industrial, industry, information, innovation, institutional practices, International, International Fund for Animal Welfare, International Institute for Software Technology, knowledge, local banks, Lynn Mytelka, Maastricht Economic and Social Research and Training Centre, Macao SAR, microfinance, microsoft, network, organizational structure, process of learning, Republic of Korea, research, SMEs, sustainable, technology, the Netherlands, UK, UN Asia Pacific Center for ICT Development, UNDP, UNEP, United Nations, university, UNU Joint Activities Fund, UNU-IIST, UNU-MERIT, US, water-efficient, Zambia
By Making It on 31 January, 2011
The importance of renewable energy relative to conventional energy sources is clear, but to what extent is the drive to develop clean energy a preserve of developed countries?
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged Argentina, biogas, biomas, Bloomberg New Energy Finance, Brazil, charcoal, China, clean energy, Colobia, communication, conventional, cooking, Costa Rica, developed, developing, development, dung, Ecuador, Egypt, electric grid, electricity, energy, Ethiopia, Europe, geography, Ghana, Global Wind Energy Council, heat, India, Indonesia, industry, investment, Jordan, Kenya, kerosene, Kutch wind farm, Kuwait, latin america, lighting, Making It magazine, Mexico, Middle East, moern, Morocco, North Africa, Pakistan, Peru, photovoltaics, plan, policy, pollution, power capacity, pv, remote areas, REN21, renewable energy, Renewables 2010 Global Status Report, Republic of Korea, resources, rural, services, solar, South Africa, straw, Sub-Saharan Africa, sugar-derived ethanol, sustainable, Tanzania, technology, Thailand, the Philippines, the Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century, Tunisia, Tuvalu, UN, UNEP, UNIDO, United Nations, United Nations Environment Programme, Uruguay, wind power plants, wood
By Making It on 11 August, 2010
A new report opens a window on to the economic landscape that women face globally, and highlights where most opportunities can be found
Posted in All Posts, Extra! | Tagged Africa, Asia, attitudes, Belgium, Brazil, Canadá, chile, China, constraint, country, economic landscape, Economist Intelligence Unit, Egypt, environment, fertility, Global, government, Hong Kong SAR, indicators, innovation, Isreal, Issue 3, Japan, labour force, Leila Butt, liberal, limited, magazine, Making It, Mauritius, Mexico, Namibia, Norway, opportunities, pilot, progress, ranking, Republic of Korea, retirement, rights, Singapore, slow-growing, social value, South Africa, stagnant, Sweden, Tunisia, US, weak, women economic opportunity index
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