Recurrent famine has been a major cause of mortality in the Horn of Africa. In Ethiopia, three consecutive years of drought led to widespread loss of livestock, population displacement, and malnutrition, placing an estimated 10 million persons at risk for starvation in 2000. A large proportion of the population of the Gode district in Somali region was displaced in a search for food and food ai...

This year we are supporting and participating in activities in celebration of the 20th World Breastfeeding Week. This annual event is celebrated during the first week in August to commemorate the signing of the Innocenti Declaration, adopted at the World Health Organization/UNICEF Policymakers’ Meeting, ‘‘Breastfeeding in the 1990s: A Global Initiative,’’ held at the Spedale degli Innocenti, Fl...

Several governmental and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), motivated by the UNESCO have undertaken the task of documenting the intangible cultural heritage of their communities. However, this has proven to be a difficult task. In this work we present a conceptual knowledge discovery in databases (CKDD) approach to aid a particular organization in this task (which has already started). Beca...

Getting More Work for Nothing? Symbolic Awards and Worker Performance We study the impact of status and social recognition on worker performance in a field experiment. In collaboration with an international non-governmental organization we hired students to work on a database project. Students in the award treatment were offered a congratulatory card from the organization honoring the best perf...

Thematic BLOCKINarea/programme Gender, agrobiodiversity and local knowledge Location United Republic of Tanzania, Mozambique and Swaziland Beneficiaries Researchers and development workers from governmental and non-governmental institutions Executing BLOCKINagency/agencies Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Implementing BLOCKINagency/ agencies FAO together with numero...