Month: January 2019
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The 2019 Australasian Aid Conference and Africa
As stated in the post dated 8 December 2018, the ANU’s Development Policy Centre announced that, ‘Now in its sixth year, the Australasian Aid Conference will once again bring together researchers and development practitioners from across Australia, the Pacific, Asia, and beyond.’ See: https://www.devpolicy.org/events/event/2019-australasian-aid-conference/ “Beyond” includes Africa which is normally lucky to get as much attention…
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Transforming small-scale irrigation in Zimbabwe
Speaker Dr André F van Rooyen ‘André is Principal Scientist specializing in integrated agricultural systems in the research program on Innovation Systems for Drylands, at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, based in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. He uses the characteristics of complex adaptive systems to analyse system functionality and explore opportunities to improve…