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An overview of Lagoro IDP camp in Kitgum District, northern Uganda, 20 May 2007. Manoocher Deghati/IRIN

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  1. Building blocks for equitable growth: lessons from the BRICS

    Publication - Discussion papers - 14 January 2013
    Milo Vandemoortele, Kate Bird, Andries Du Toit, Minquan Liu, Kunal Sen and Fábio Veras Soares
    This ODI Working Paper examines the experiences of four of the BRICS – Brazil, China, India and South Africa – and identifies four key factors shaping the countries’ pattern of growth: people having access to assets; investment in productive activities; social transfers; and a political-economic context where inclusion is a priority.
  2. Climate finance regional briefing: Latin America

    Publication - Briefing papers - 26 November 2012
    Liane Schalatek, Heinrich Böll Stiftung North and Nella Canales Trujillo, Smita Nakhooda and Alice Caravani, ODI
    This Brief describes international climate finance that is being channelled to countries in Latin America to fund national climate change actions . It looks at funding across the major themes of adaptation, mitigation and REDD-plus, as well as identifying the principal actors within the region.
  3. Chávez victory: good news for democracy?

    Opinion - Articles and blogs - 23 October 2012

    Venezuela held presidential elections on Sunday 7 October 2012. These elections were considered particularly momentous because there was an 80 per cent voter turnout and it was the most closely fought presidential contest since President Hugo Chávez came to power in 1998.

  4. Chinese agriculture. Zhenyuan, on the Wuyang River - China
    Chinese agriculture. Zhenyuan, on the Wuyang River - China

    License: Creative Commons
    Credit: lacitadelle
    Source: Flickr

    Future Agricultures Consortium: China and Brazil in African agriculture

    Projects - October 2012 to September 2015
    Africa is a major destination of the Brazil and China's diplomatic and economic ventures, and agriculture a leading topic for development cooperation activities across the continent. This project investigates the impacts of these changes on African agriculture.
  5. Strengthening resilience in volcanic areas (STREVA)

    Projects - July 2012 to June 2016
    This project examines the interaction of dynamic factors contributing to disaster risk including: the volcanic hazard processes, the exposure and vulnerability of people and assets, and the capacities in place to reduce, prepare for and recover from the impact.

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