Anth/Soc 460: Women in poor countries

Spring 2010

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Resources for your proposal projects

 

Agriculture, Environment and Natural Resources:

  • From the FAO (Food and Agricultural Organization of the UN), some projects and developments
  • World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF), ICRISAT (too long to spell out ... they do crop research), Alliance for a Green Revolution in africa (AGRA), Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), here's their Gender & Diversity page.
  • International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD, here's the rural poverty knowledgebase page), here's the indigenous people's page
  • UNEP Indigenous people's page

Health-related:

Human rights-related

Economics

NGOs

UN and multilateral aid organizations:

  • From UNDP (there's a country project page, you might have to find English pages, though)
  • More from UNDP
  • Women and gender projects from UNESCO's site
  • UN Millennium Campaign
  • UNIFEM (violence against women page)
  • INSTRAW (another UN institution--and Fox News had you thinking all they did was vote to denounce United States imperialism!)
  • From the World Bank (There. I posted it. I need to go take a shower now ...)

Governmental Organizations

  • Case studies from the DFID (Dept. for International Development) in the UK
  • Canadian International Development Agency (use their project browser)
  • Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency

Other

 

 

 

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