The briefing contextualizes the global debate on food security and trade policy instruments, defining the situation in Africa in general and Southern Africa in particular, and charts the broad contou

Research on the world’s agricultural production and food, as regards its approach to the objective of sustainable development, has become the subject of countless studies and debates. It is one of th

By exploring possible futures of the world’s agricultural and food systems up to 2050, the Agrimonde project seeks to identify the fundamental challenges that agricultural research will have to face.

AIDS in Africa: Scenarios for the Future

This report presents three distinct scenarios of how the AIDS epidemic could impact on the education sector in sub-Saharan Africa over the next two decades and, in particular, the attainment of the M

“This book is about AIDS and Africa, and the world’s response to both, and presents three stories describing possible futures. If, by 2025, millions of African people are still becoming infected with

Assesses the future security environment to the year 2025. This was pursued by surveying the available literature to identify areas of consensus and debate. The goal was to conduct an assessment that

“Plausible projections of future mortality and disability are a useful aid in decisions on priorities for health research, capital investment, and training. Rates and patterns of ill health are deter

Urban Water Infrastructure Systems (UIWS) are complex (technical, socio-economic, judicial, and institutional) systems with a large number of actors / stakeholders involved. Existing conventional UWI

The main aim of this research work consist of developing analytical data mining methods that can systematically address the complex problem related to various forms of crime.