African Technology Development Forum

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ATDF Journal call of papers: ‚Technology and Human Empowerment’

Technological change may cause risk and uncertainty for existing businesses, social structures and the environment, but it eventually creates new employment, renews the economy, enriches cultural life and leads to political and economic empowerment. Public Policy must ensure that the risks of the resulting economic transition are minimized while its benefits are maximized for the environment and society at large. This special issues explores success stories and highlights bottlenecks to homegrown economic growth in Africa.

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JOURNAL

ATDF Journal Volume 8 Issue 1 & 2, 2011 - Food Sovereignty

The contents of this issue of the ATDF Journal: The Global Food Crisis is not going away. The price peaks of 2008 have returned in 2011, but the remedies to address the problem largely remain the same. Many countries vow to fight the problem by invoking the fashionable term ‘Food Sovereignty’. It largely refers to the "right" of people to define their own food, agriculture, livestock and fisheries systems, in contrast to having food largely subject to international market forces. In our new ATDF issue we discuss the meaning of term ’Food Sovereignty’ and explore the potential impact of the pursuit of national food sovereignty policies on farming, research and trade protection.

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ATDF Journal Volume 7 Issue 3 & 4, 2010 - Industrial Policy

The contents of this special issue of the ATDF Journal: Problems facing Local Manufacturers in the Nigerian Agro-Allied Machine Fabrication Industry - From Science and Technology to Innovation for Development - Exploring the Constraints of Rural Enterprise Development and Poverty Reduction in Ghana - A resurgence in acquisition of industrial technology in Africa? Analysis of global trends in technology transfer - Overall Customer Satisfaction in Ghana‘s Mobile Telecommunication Networks: Implications for Management and Policy - An E-mentoring platform for entrepreneur-driven development in Africa

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ATDF Journal Volume 7 Issue 1 & 2, 2010 - Architecture

Architects and development specialists often live in different worlds and it is difficult to create a publicawareness for the development dimension of innovative architecture. This special issue of the ATDF Journal aims to change this by bringing the two worlds closer together showing a variety of innovative projects and discussing their impact on African development in general and sustainable urbanization and local entrepreneurship in particular.

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ATDF Journal Volume 6 Issue 3 & 4, 2009 - African Orphan Crops

This special issue of the ATDF Journal is dedicated to the Orphan Crops of Africa. Although orphan crops are also known by different names (e.g. underutilized-, lost- or disadvantaged-crops), they all refer to a group of crops that are vital to the economy of developing countries due to their suitability to the agro-ecology and socio-economic conditions, but remain largely unimproved due to less attention has been given by the world scientific community. In order to boost food production in Africa emphasis should be given, not only to the major crops but also, to the orphan crops.

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