3 December 2011
Why gender equality is fundamental to Ireland’s overseas development programme
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged building networks, business and farmers associations, Early Childhood Care and Education, enabling women to control their fertility, equitable societies, Fair Trade, female entrepreneurs, gender equality, gender-blind, government, health, human rights, Industrial Development, international trade, Ireland's Minister of State for Trade and Development, Ireland's National Women's Strategy, Ireland's overseas development programme, Irish aid, issue 8, Jan O'Sullivan TD, key facet of empowerment, least developed countries, liberalization, Making It magazine, networking, Orsi Parkanyi, productivity, quality maternal and reproductive health, sustained economic growth, third-level institutions, UN, UNIDO, United Nations, universities, Women as Entrepreneurs, women in parliament, women's economic empowerment, women's engagement in economy, women's issue
4 July 2011
Guillermo García explains how agribusiness can help Colombia’s peasant farmers ditch coca cultivation and pursue legal and more secure opportunities
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged access, agribusiness, agriculture, alternative development, alternatives, Amazon, beans, black pepper, cacao, Canadá, Carrefour, Casino, coca cultivation, cocaine, coconuts, coffee, Columbia, competition, dairy products, demand, development, distribution, drugs, environment, Europe, export, Fair Trade, France, gourmet sauces, government, guerrillas, Guillermo Garcia, heart of palm, honey, illegal, income, infrastructure, Inter-American Development Bank, International, investment, issue 6, Japan, legality, local, Making It magazine, marketing, middlemen, opportunities, packaging, paramilitary, peasant farmers, private sector, Putumayo, quality, security, socio-economic intervention, Spain, subsistence, traffickers, UNIDO, United Nations Industrial Development Organization, UNODC
6 August 2010
There is growing recognition that the potential contribution of the private sector to development far outstrips the potential impact of aid.
Posted in All Posts, Policy Brief | Tagged Africa, banking sector, climate, climate change, developing countries, development, Fair Trade, Issue 3, microenterprises, microfinance, Millennium Development Goals, offset, Overseas Development Institute, poverty reduction, private sector, social responsibility, Washington Consensus