The stated aim of Eastern and Central Africa Programme for Agricultural Policy Analysis (ECAPAPA) is to promote regional economic growth through application of growth-enhancing agricultural policies and, in the process, to help build a sustainable capacity in eastern and central Africa to utilise and contribute to agricultural policy research and analysis.

To accomplish its objectives and contribute to the overall goal, the Programme has three specific tasks:

• capacity building primarily directed towards the National Agricultural Research Institutes, to increase their ability to affect policy and to relate their technology development programmes to existing policy
• to improve regional agricultural policy through supporting policy analysis in selected thematic areas
• to support a network among interest groups, policy analysts and decision-makers to coordinate and link agricultural policy activities in the region.

Their website contains details of all their activities and partners and contains a small library of their own publications.

(Source: Eldis)

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Our Vision

EcoAgriculture Partners strives for a world where agricultural communities manage their landscapes to simultaneously enhance rural livelihoods, conserve biodiversity and ecosystem services, and sustainably produce crops, livestock, fish, and fiber.

Our Mission

To support diverse individuals and organizations at the local, national and international levels to promote sustainable landscapes worldwide. Read our Strategic Plan

Our Values

EcoAgriculture Partners emphasizes respect for cultural diversity and self-determination. We work with a wide range of partners and collaborators – from farmers and community organizations to international businesses, policy makers, and donors – providing direct support, education, training, research, and policy analysis to help these groups participate in and benefit from effective landscape management.

Aims & scope

ECOFORUM is an international, multi-disciplinary, refereed (peer-reviewed) and open access journal aiming to promote and enhance research in all fields of Economics. The journal is conceived and edited by the members of Management, Business Administration and Tourism Department within the Faculty of Economic Sciences and Public Administration, "Stefan cel Mare" University of Suceava.

ISSN  2344 – 2174

Areas of Research
Areas of research include, but are not limited to, the following:

The Ecological Society of America (ESA) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization of scientists founded in 1915 to:

• promote ecological science by improving communication among ecologists;
• raise the public’s level of awareness of the importance of ecological science;
• increase the resources available for the conduct of ecological science; and
• ensure the appropriate use of ecological science in environmental decision making by enhancing communication between the ecological community and policy-makers.

Ecology is the scientific discipline that is concerned with the relationships between organisms and their past, present, and future environments. These relationships include physiological responses of individuals, structure and dynamics of populations, interactions among species, organization of biological communities, and processing of energy and matter in ecosystems.

Economia e Sociedade tem por objetivo contribuir para o desenvolvimento da reflexão crítica em temas de amplo interesse nas áreas de teoria econômica, economia aplicada, história do pensamento econômico e história econômica. Desde sua criação, em 1992, a revista acolhe a produção heterodoxa inspirada, sobretudo, pelas tradições de Marx, Keynes, Kalecki e Schumpeter, bem como pela reflexão latino-americana sobre desenvolvimento econômico. A revista, que é publicada pelo Instituto de Economia da Universidade Estadual de Campinas (IE/UNICAMP) desde 1992, tem atualmente periodicidade quadrimestral.

The five regional commissions were created by the United Nations in order to fulfil the economic and social goals set out in the Charter by promoting cooperation and integration between countries in each region of the world. Those commissions are: the Economic Commission for Europe (ECE, established in 1947); the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP, 1947); the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC, 1948); the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA, 1958); and the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA, 1973).

ESCWA

The Economic Commission for Western Asia (ECWA) was established on 9 August 1973 pursuant to Economic and Social Council’s resolution 1818 (LV). Its purpose was to stimulate economic activity in member countries, strengthen cooperation between them promote development.

In recognition of the social component of its work, the Commission was renamed the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) under Economic and Social Council resolution 69/1985 of July 1985.

ESCWA was initially located in Beirut (1974-1982), moved to Baghdad (1982-1991) and Amman (1991-1997), and subsequently returned to Beirut, its permanent headquarters, where it has remained to this day.

Objectives

To support economic and social development in member countries 
To promote interaction and cooperation between member countries
To encourage the exchange of experience, best practice and lessons learned
To achieve regional integration and ensure interaction between Western Asia and other regions
To raise global awareness of the circumstances and needs of member countries

Mission

ESCWA provides a framework for the formulation and harmonization of sectoral policies for member countries, a platform for congress and coordination, a home for expertise and knowledge, and an information observatory.

ESCWA activities are coordinated with the divisions and main offices of the Headquarters of the United Nations, specialized agencies, and international and regional organizations, including the League of Arab States and its subsidiary bodies, and the Gulf Cooperation Council.

The Economic and Social Research Foundation was established in 1994 as an independent, not-for-profit institution for research and policy analysis.

The formation of ESRF was based on the assumption that there was need and demand for an improved understanding of policy options and development management issues, and that the capacity for this was lacking in the Tanzania civil service.

ESRF addressed this gap by putting into place qualified Professional Staff, modest resources and a favourable research environment for the analysis and discussion of economic and social policy.

The primary objectives of the Foundation are to strengthen capabilities in policy analysis and development management and to enhance the understanding of policy options in the government, the public sector, civil society, and the donor community and the growing private sector

La Comisión Económica para América Latina (CEPAL) fue establecida por la resolución 106 (VI) del Consejo Económico y Social, del 25 de febrero de 1948, y comenzó a funcionar ese mismo año. En su resolución 1984/67, del 27 de julio de 1984, el Consejo decidió que la Comisión pasara a llamarse Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe.

La CEPAL es una de las cinco comisiones regionales de las Naciones Unidas y su sede está en Santiago de Chile. Se fundó para contribuir al desarrollo económico de América Latina, coordinar las acciones encaminadas a su promoción y reforzar las relaciones económicas de los países entre sí y con las demás naciones del mundo. Posteriormente, su labor se amplió a los países del Caribe y se incorporó el objetivo de promover el desarrollo social.

La CEPAL tiene dos sedes subregionales, una para la subregión de América Central, ubicada en México, D.F. y la otra para la subregión del Caribe, en Puerto España, que se establecieron en junio de 1951 y en diciembre de 1966, respectivamente. Además tiene oficinas nacionales en Buenos Aires, Brasilia, Montevideo y Bogotá y una oficina de enlace en Washington, D.C.

La secretaría de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL):

Presta servicios sustantivos de secretaría y documentación a la Comisión y a sus órganos subsidiarios;

Realiza estudios, investigaciones y otras actividades de apoyo de conformidad con el mandato de la Comisión;

Promueve el desarrollo económico y social mediante la cooperación y la integración a nivel regional y subregional;

Recoge, organiza, interpreta y difunde información y datos relativos al desarrollo económico y social de la región;

Presta servicios de asesoramiento a los gobiernos a petición de éstos y planifica, organiza y ejecuta programas de cooperación técnica;

Planifica y promueve actividades y proyectos de cooperación técnica de alcance regional y subregional teniendo en cuenta las necesidades y prioridades de la región y cumple la función de organismo de ejecución de esos proyectos;

Organiza conferencias y reuniones de grupos intergubernamentales y de expertos y patrocina cursos de capacitación, simposios y seminarios;

Contribuye a que se tenga en cuenta la perspectiva regional, respecto de los problemas mundiales y en los foros internacionales y plantea en los planos regional y subregional cuestiones de interés mundial;

Coordina las actividades de la CEPAL con las de los principales departamentos y oficinas de la Sede de las Naciones Unidas, los organismos especializados y las organizaciones intergubernamentales a fin de evitar la duplicación y lograr la complementariedad en el intercambio de información.

The Economics of Land Degradation (ELD) Initiative is an initiative on the economic benefits of land and land based ecosystems. The initiative highlights the value of sustainable land management and provides a global approach for analysis of the economics of land degradation. It aims to make economics of land degradation an integral part of policy strategies and decision making by increasing the political and public awareness of the costs and benefits of land and land-based ecosystems.

Our Vision

The partners’ vision of Economics of Land Degradation (ELD) Initiative is to transform global understanding of the value of land and create awareness of the economic case for sustainable land management that prevents loss of natural capital, secures livelihoods, preserves ecosystem services, combats climate change, and addresses food, energy, and water security, and to create capacity for the utilisation of economic information for sustainable land management.

Mission Statement

The central purpose and role of the Economics of Land Degradation (ELD) Initiative is that through an open inter-disciplinary partnership:

• We work on the basis of a holistic framework built upon a recognized methodology to include the economic benefits of sustainable land management in political decision-making;

  
  

   

• We build a compelling economic case for the benefits derived from sustainable land management from the local to the global level while applying a multi-level approach;

  
  

   

• We estimate quantitatively the economic benefits derived from adopting sustainable land management practices and compare them to the costs of these practices;

  
  

   

• We develop the capacities of decision-makers and land users through innovative formats to adapt and build their knowledge into national frameworks and action on the ground;

  
  

   

• We stimulate the transformation towards land uses that provide fulfilling and secure livelihoods to all while growing natural capital, enhancing ecosystem services, boosting resilience and combating climate change;

  
  

   

• We increase the awareness of the total value of land with its related ecosystem services;

  
  

   

• We mainstream the full benefits of land in international and national land use strategies and action programmes by proposing effective solutions, tailored to country- or region-specific needs, including policies, and activities to reduce land degradation, mitigate climate change and the loss of biodiversity, and deliver food, energy, and water security worldwide.

EconStor is a publication server for scholarly economic literature, provided as a non-commercial public service by the ZBW. The full texts collected here (mostly working papers, but also journal articles, conference proceedings, etc.) are all freely accessible according to the principles of Open Access. Authors and editors can also submit papers to EconStor free of charge.

EconStor is among the largest repositories in its discipline with 204,889 full-texts. More than 500 institutions use it for the digital dissemination of their publications in Open Access. EconStor is also an important input service for RePEc, where it is one of the most highly frequented archives. Moreover we also distribute our titles to search engines like Google, Google Scholar or BASE and to academic databases like WorldCat, OpenAire and EconBiz.

Écoscience, is a multidisciplinary journal that covers all aspects of ecology. The journal welcomes submissions in English or French and publishes original work focusing on patterns and processes at  various temporal and spatial scales across different levels of biological organization.  Articles include original research, brief communications and reviews.

Écoscience est une revue interdisciplinaire qui couvre tous les aspects de l'écologie. La revue accepte les soumissions en français ou en anglais et publie des travaux originaux et inédits sur les processus et les patrons écologiques à différentes échelles spatiales et temporelles et à différents niveaux d'organisation biologique.

Produzir ótimos livros, de qualidade e a preços acessíveis. Mas como atingir este objetivo? Só há um caminho: contar com a solidariedade de sujeitos dos movimentos populares e das universidades. Esse foi o motivo que reuniu, em janeiro de 1999, um conjunto de homens e mulheres das mais diversas faixas etárias, de diferentes profissões, e cujas  trajetórias tinham um traço em comum: o compromisso com a construção de um novo mundo. A partir disso iniciamos a organização de centenas de profissionais para colaborar conosco e transformar nossas ideias em realidade.

Atualmente temos mais de 600 títulos publicados em diversas áreas do conhecimento, como política, agroecologia, literatura, etc. Somos um grande grupo de pessoas, em todo o país e no exterior, trabalhando com a pesquisa, produção, tradução e a organização de textos e imagens. Como não visamos a disputa do mercado editorial, temos como principal objetivo ampliar o hábito da leitura entre os brasileiros e brasileiras, tarefa comum a todos que se preocupam com a formação cultural do nosso povo.

Nació en 1983 por iniciativa de un grupo de académicos universitarios con la finalidad de promover en nuestro país el desarrollo de la cultura y el pensamiento crítico. Comenzamos publicando durante tres años tres libros y cinco números de una revista de literatura, arte y análisis científico-social. En 1993 iniciamos la publicación de folletos de teoría social y sobre la problemática social contemporánea y desde 1997 retomamos la edición de libros. En cerca de doce años hemos publicado más de 200 títulos.

Hemos coeditado con la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, la Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México, la Universidad Autónoma Chapingo, la Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, El Colegio de Jalisco.

Pertenecemos a la Alianza de Editoriales Mexicanas Independientes (AEMI)

EDP Sciences is dedicated to publishing high quality research and content in the fields of:

• Physics
• Astrophysics
• Humanities
• Mathematics
• Engineering Sciences
• Life Sciences
• Medicine

Today, EDP Sciences publishes scientific journals, books and conference proceedings.

All EDP Sciences journals have an online version and some are also available as printed versions.

Over the last decade, our book publication policy was redefined and today we publish monographs at Masters' level or higher, undergraduate teaching texts, professional works and popular science books. Every year, our catalogue increases by 80 new books or references.

A missão da Educar em Revista é a publicação de artigos originais e relatos inéditos de pesquisa na área educacional, bem como resenhas de livros de destaque e, eventualmente, documentos especiais e traduções. Tem como propósito abordar questões que se colocam como atuais e significativas para a compreensão dos fenômenos educativos.     

Edward Elgar Publishing is a leading international academic and professional publisher with a strong focus on the social sciences and legal fields. We publish 350 titles annually and have successfully created a prestigious list of over 5,500 titles.

The company was founded by our current Chairman, Edward Elgar, and remains a family business. Edward's original vision was to create a publishing house that attracted high quality books by offering a superior service to authors and we remain focused on treating potential authors and their books with care and attention to detail. We believe it is difficult for large corporate publishers who often suffer from very high levels of staff turnover, top down management and mass production processes to replicate the experience we can provide.

Edward Elgar Publishing was conceived as an international scholarly press and from the beginning our sales were derived equally from Europe, North America and Asia Pacific regions, reflecting our author base and focus on topics of global interest. Today the Middle East, Latin America and a number of African countries are also important markets.

Our offices are located in the UK (in the Regency town of Cheltenham and Camberley near London) and the US (in Northampton, Massachusetts).  Our editors and sales team make frequent visits to universities and conferences, both home and abroad, meeting with some 20,000 scholars each year to learn about their plans and identify academic trends and ideas for new titles that would be of benefit to our readers.

EE Publishers (Pty) Ltd is a private, limited liability company, registered in the Republic of South Africa in terms of the Companies Act, 1973.

The primary activity of EE Publishers is publishing in the print and electronic media, with a particular focus on the energy, electrical, electronics, measurement, automation, control, computer, information, geo-informatics and communication technology sectors of Southern Africa. Other activities include production services and event management.

Ekta Parishad Europe is an open network of independent organisations and individuals of European countries. Its primary goal is to provide moral, political and financial support to social movements which assist deprived people to achieve control over their means of livelihood such as water, land and forest.

In particular it supports organisations like Ekta Parishad, India who work toward the empowerment of disadvantaged people by applying and advocating non-violent methods for change (for example Gandhian methods). The support can take the form of awareness raising among Europeans, fundraising, participating in activities on site and supporting projects. Membership is defined by any active form of participation in the activities of EP Europe that is carried out in the spirit of this charter.

Members of the Ekta Europe associated organisations meet twice a year to exchange information and plan joint activities.

Ekta Europe maintains a yahoo contact group. Organisations who would like to receive the information distributed via Ekta Europe or become a member of Ekta Europe can ask to be invited to the Ekta Yahoo group by contacting: Jacques Vellut (Merci Home, Brussels): jacques@vellut.be

To get some more information about Ekta Europe, please do not hesitate to contact us directly at info@ektaeurope.org

Ekta Parishad is a non-violent Gandhi-inspired social movement in India working on land and forest rights at a national level. It has been built up over the last twenty years growing from the local, to the state, to the national and increasingly, to the international level. The purpose of mobilizing an increasingly growing, very large group of poor people into a loosely structured, major grassroots movement, has been to put pressure directly on central and state government bodies in order to press for legal reforms and structural change.

The structural change that Ekta Parishad is calling for is a profound land reform to enable the marginalized and poorest segments of society to get out of poverty. Land reform – giving the poor access to land is a ‘game changer’ that could bring 40% of the populace out of absolute poverty and substantially reduce the violence that is increasingly threatening Indian society. Violence, that is fueled by naxalite, marxist groups who draw on the misery of people to exert control and to use aggressive means in confronting government, leading to police repression and a climate of fear and violence. Please visit www.ektaparishad.com for further information.

If you want to receive the monthly newsletter of Ekta Parishad, please contact info@ektaparishad.com

El Colegio de México es una institución pública, de carácter universitario, dedicada a la investigación y a la enseñanza superior en ciencias sociales y humanidades, y es una de las más destacadas en el mundo hispánico, por lo cual ha recibido numerosos reconocimientos desde su fundación en 1940 hasta el presente.

Para cumplir con sus fines, El Colegio de México lleva a cabo investigaciones y docencia en las áreas de la especialidad de los Centros de Estudios que lo integran: Históricos, Lingüísticos y Literarios, Internacionales, de Asia y África, Económicos, Demográficos Urbanos y Ambientales, y Sociológicos, además del Programa de Estudios de Género. Ofrece licenciaturas, maestrías y doctorados por especialidad, así como cursos de especialización y de verano.

El Colegio cuenta con una gran biblioteca, abierta al público, especializada en ciencias sociales y humanidades. Su acervo está constituido por más de 700,000 volúmenes y cuenta con una enorme cantidad de recursos electrónicos y digitales. Asimismo, la institución cuenta con las siguientes unidades de apoyo y servicio: Dirección de Publicaciones, Programa de Educación Digital y Coordinación de Servicios de Cómputo.

De las aulas de El Colegio han salido varios millares de egresados que se han destacado en la investigación, la docencia, la función pública y otros campos de actividad profesional en México y en numerosos países del mundo.

El trabajo académico de El Colegio es la suma de las actividades de investigación y docencia que realizan los profesores- investigadores adscritos a la institución, los cuales se agrupan en cinco seminarios académicos distintos, en donde convergen líneas de investigación definidas y con pertinencia científica y social; así como proyectos de investigación con rigor teórico – metodológico, que procuran avances significativos en la construcción del conocimiento en las Ciencias Sociales y las Humanidades.

El trabajo de investigación puede realizarse en forma colectiva o individual, pero siempre con el objetivo de garantizar la calidad y pertinencia académica para avanzar en la consolidación institucional y en la utilidad que El Colegio ofrece a la sociedad.

Eldis is an online information service providing free access to relevant, up-to-date and diverse research on international development issues. The database includes over 40,000 summaries and provides free links to full-text research and policy documents from over 8,000 publishers. Each document is selected by members of our editorial team.

To help you get the information you need we organise documents into collections according to key development themes and the country or regionthey relate to. You can browse these on the website or find out about our subscribe options to get updates in a format that suits you.

Who produces ELDIS?

Eldis is hosted by IDS but our service profiles work by a growing global network of research organisations and knowledge brokers including 3ie, IGIDR in India, Soul Beat Africa, and the Philippines Institute for Development Studies. 

These partners help to ensure that Eldis can present a truly global picture of development research. We make a special effort to cover high quality research from smaller research producers, especially those from developing countries, alongside that of the larger, northern based, research organisations.

Who uses ELDIS?

Our website is predominantly used by development practitioners, decision makers and researchers. Over half a million users visit the site every year and more than 50% of our regular visitors are based in developing countries.

But Eldis is not just a website. All of our content is Open Licensed so that it can be re-used by anyone that needs it. Website managers, applications developers and Open Data enthusiasts can all re-use Eldis content to enhance their own services or develop new tools. See our Get the Data page for more information.

Elsevier is a world-leading provider of information solutions that enhance the performance of science, health, and technology professionals.

All knowledge begins as uncommon—unrecognized, undervalued, and sometimes unaccepted. But with the right perspective, the uncommon can become the exceptional.

That’s why Elsevier is dedicated to making uncommon knowledge, common—through validation, integration, and connection. Between our carefully-curated information databases, smart social networks, intelligent search tools, and thousands of scholarly books and journals, we have a great responsibility and relentless passion for making information actionable.

Revista digital semestral do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia e Ciência Política (PPGSP) da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC). Publica textos inéditos – artigos, ensaios, resenhas, entrevistas e traduções – de pesquisadores da Sociologia, Ciência Política e áreas afins. Recebe textos no sistema de fluxo contínuo e dossiês.
 

Embassy of the Lao People's Democratic Republic in the United States of America

A Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (Embrapa) foi criada em 26 de abril de 1973 e é vinculada ao Ministério da Agricultura, Pecuária e Abastecimento (Mapa). Desde a nossa criação, assumimos um desafio: desenvolver, em conjunto com nossos parceiros do Sistema Nacional de Pesquisa Agropecuária (SNPA), um modelo de agricultura e pecuária tropical genuinamente brasileiro, superando as barreiras que limitavam a produção de alimentos, fibras e energia no nosso País.

Esse esforço ajudou a transformar o Brasil. Hoje a nossa agropecuária é uma das mais eficientes e sustentáveis do planeta. Incorporamos uma larga área de terras degradadas dos cerrados aos sistemas produtivos. Uma região que hoje é responsável por quase 50% da nossa produção de grãos. Quadruplicamos a oferta de carne bovina e suína e ampliamos em 22 vezes a oferta de frango. Essas são algumas das conquistas que tiraram o País de uma condição de importador de alimentos básicos para a condição de um dos maiores produtores e exportadores mundiais.

ENDA PRONAT est née au début des années 80 suite à une étude réalisée par Paul Germain et Abou Thiam  sur « Les pesticides : une menace pour le Sénégal ». Son intervention a commencé par des activités de sensibilisation auprès des chercheurs et des utilisateurs. Ensuite l’action de PRONAT s’est poursuivie par la recherche et la formation des productrices et des producteurs sur l’utilisation d’alternatives aux pesticides chimiques. L’année 1996 consacre l’avènement d’une nouvelle vision mettant la recherche développement au centre des préoccupations de ENDA PRONAT.

PRINCIPES D'ACTION

1. Recherche Action Participative  (RAP)
2. La Responsabilisation des acteurs de base
3. Approche terroir basée sur l’agro écologie et la gestion durable des ressources naturelles
4. Capitalisation et Plaidoyer pour influence le changement des politiques
5. Militantisme et engagement au niveau de ENDA PRONAT et des partenaires

LA VISION

La vision de Enda Pronat à l’horizon 2025 pour l’Afrique de l’Ouest, en général, et le Sénégal, en particulier, est : l’appropriation de la gouvernance par les communautés locales permet au concept de l’ASD de devenir un réel projet politique, économique, social et environnemental qui gouverne les stratégies d’interventions des acteurs du développement

Energia, Ambiente, Innovazione is the three-monthly technical and scientific magazine published by ENEA. It provides authoritative information on the progress of scientific research and its applications in the fields of new technologies, energy, and the environment, with special reference to subjects of great significance to sustainable economic development and enterprise competitiveness.

The journal publishes four special issues each year,  devoted to topics of interest to ENEA. Every issue begins with an Editorial by the Director, followed by an interview to an expert on the specific subject each issue is dedicated to.

EAI is structured into four sections, as listed here below.

Focus

This section presents articles relating to scientific research results,  development of new technologies or innovative applications, technical and scientific studies, analyses and assessments.

Point and Counterpoint

The opinions are presented and compared of two experts from different cultural backgrounds on a specific  theme.

International Framework

International contributions on the specific theme presented in each issue are here reported.

Open Space

Two or three relevant articles on topical issues are reported, which are not connected with the main argument of each issue.