Full Coverage: Development

31.10.2005 Multinational and Indian seed companies are paying Indian farmers who are producing their cotton seed almost 40%- too little to enable them to hire adults for the local minimum wage of Rs.52 (€1,-) instead of children. The companies are multinationals like Bayer, Monsanto and Syngenta but also Indian companies like Nuziveedu Seeds, Raasi Seeds and Ankur Seeds.

31.10.2005 Nearly two years after the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) took up the question in Geneva, the international community is yet to arrive at a consensus on creating a framework to manage the Internet. All countries today recognise the fundamental and growing role of the Internet as a facilitator of governance, commerce, and communication. An editorial in The Hindu addresses this question.

31.10.2005 The UNICEF has supported the Ministry of Education in assessing the immediate needs of the children. UNICEF’s priority is to get children back to school as quickly as possible to help them cope with the trauma.

28.10.2005 Fifty years ago, the Tonga people were evicted from their lands along the Zambezi River when the construction of the Kariba Dam flooded their valley homes. Now, an oral testimony project is highlighting the voices of the Tonga, exploring the history and contemporary experiences of communities that paid dearly for their country's development.

25.10.2005 OneWorld South Asia is holding a one-day meet on "Inter-Faith Connectedness with reference to the Millennium Development Goals" to be held on November 10, 2005, from 10.00 am to 5.00 pm, at the India International Centre, New Delhi.

25.10.2005 One of the largest earthquakes in South Asia for more than a century has brought death and destruction to areas of north Pakistan, India and Afghanistan. It is estimated that more than 40,000 people have died, and over 2.5 million people are now homeless. Tearfund partners are responding to immediate needs in India and Pakistan, providing shelter, warm clothing, blankets and medical help. An emergency response team, previously based in Quetta, has moved up to the earthquake-affected areas in Pakistan.

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25.10.2005 Blogs. What does an obscure format which started with computer geeks have to do with development? Quite a bit, say Tim Harford and Pablo Halkyard, who write the Private Sector Development Blog, the World Bank's first venture into internet blogging. Read this article from the id12 website.

24.10.2005 The campaign, organized by the Citizens Alliance for Protection of Vlora Bay continues. The latest events was a book launch and presentation, to add to the previosly organized public debates, discussions, round-tables and experts’ debates.

21.10.2005 A country like India, therefore, has no choice but to adapt to climate change. This means that with increasing water scarcity, a more responsive and responsible system of management of this precious resource is required. Our agriculture will also require the development of new species and strains that are drought resistant and salt tolerant to ensure that agricultural yields do not go down.
A country like India has no choice but to adapt to climate change. This means that with increasing water scarcity, a more responsive and responsible system of management of this precious resource is required. Our agriculture will also require the development of new species and strains that are drought resistant and salt tolerant to ensure that agricultural yields do not go down.

21.10.2005 The present draft of the Tribal Bill will not only destroy forests, but also wipe out tigers in all scheduled tribal areas of India. Valmik Thapar takes a critical look at the bill.

20.10.2005 The Committee of Religious NGOs at the United Nations and the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace Netherlands organized a lunch meeting on the 19th of October 2005 to evaluate the results of the 2005 UN World Summit outcome and to determine follow up activities.

20.10.2005 the International Labour Organization and the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) have joined forces to enable poor people to cooperate out of poverty through a Global Cooperative Campaign Against Poverty.

20.10.2005 The “Ten Years of Dayton and Beyond” International Conference for Bosnia and Herzegovina started today at the International Conference Centre in Geneva, Switzerland. The Conference will end tomorrow, October 21.

20.10.2005 The World Trade Organisation (WTO) is set to abandon the "Development Round" this week and return instead to a corporate agenda based on self-interest and power politics, according to proposals now before the WTO’s 148 member states.

19.10.2005 According to Minister for Science, & Technology, Ocean Development Mr. Kapil Sibal, we need information technology to empower our farmers to sell their produce when market conditions are favourable. We must empower our farmers with agricultural produce with enhanced shelf life. To benefit from such technologies, we need to develop cold chains from the field to the supermarket.

19.10.2005 Sam Pitroda, The telecom pioneer confers that the true knowledge can empower people at all levels. It can make our people aware of their rights and responsibilities. It can also provide them tools and techniques to be productive and meaningful in the information age. To achieve this, the best brains in the country will have to focus urgently on solving problems of the poor and the underprivileged at the bottom of the pyramid.

19.10.2005 "The monitoring of the crises in Sudan will certainly become emphasised during the Finnish Presidency of the EU," said EU Special Representative for Sudan Pekka Haavisto, who had just returned from Darfur to Helsinki.

19.10.2005 Despite facing many challenges, China's civil society has been growing and now provides local communities with a range of services, including legal aid and education for rural women.

17.10.2005 The Royal Netherlands Embassy provided 594,920 USD to UNDP for conducting the Return and Development Research in BiH. The research should start in January 2006, while its results are planned to be announced by July 2006.

17.10.2005 A three-pronged strategy is needed — sustaining the gains already achieved, extending them to rainfed areas, and ensuring new gains through diversification and value addition.