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- Climate change and orphan crops
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- Louise Fresco on European fear of global change in agriculture
- Paul Romer on reform zones that drive development
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- Netherlands Development Finance Company (FMO)
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- Zambia Hub
- Africa: The Last Investment Frontier
- African stock markets beat the competition again in 2004.
- An African first in technology adoption; Electro-winning of copper
- ATDF Entrepreneurship Hub
- ATDF Launches its Entrepreneurship Initiatives
- ATDF Launches Two Entrepreneurship Awards
- ATDF Technology Fair 2007 - Registration
- ATDF Technology Fair 2007: 14 August 2007, Lusaka, Zambia
- ATDF Website Design Competition up to $500!
- Books and articles
- BUSHMAIL OVERCOMING DISTANCE
- Debt cancellation: A historic deal or mirage?
- Entrepreneurship Investment Support 2008 (up to US$ 50’000!)
- Finance Chiefs Cancel Debt of 18 Nations
- Financing business opportunities: Swedfund International
- Financing opportunities for African firms; CDC Group
- Frequently Asked Questions about Investment Support of ATDF Entrepreneurship Hub
- Making technology work for development; The case of TDAU, Zambia
- Making technology work for development; The case of TDAU, Zambia
- Newsletter Issue No.1 Vol 1
- Private standards are increasingly becoming export barriers to small-scale farmers in Africa
- Safe science is good science? Learning by flying
- Selected biotechnology alternatives
- TDAU products, Zambia
- THE AFRICAN GROWTH AND OPPORTUNITY ACT
- Training Course on ‘Management Tools and Strategic Business Models’
- Zambia approves clinical trials of AIDS herbal remedies
- Zambian Entrepreneurship Award 2007 (up to US$ 50’000!)
DID YOU KNOW?
- $100-laptop created for world’s poorest countries
- 3D Printing as a Tool of Empowerment?
- A manifesto for innovation in developing countries
- A new monkey species discovered in Tanzania
- A wasp saves African cabbage farmers use of expensive insecticide
- A way to help inventors in poor countries realise their ideas
- Academia must wake up to entrepreneurship for development
- Affordable Drip Irrigation Technology
- Africa at a glance: Leading countries in use of ICTs
- Africa may face serious bird flu risk
- Africa’s ecomonic outlook good but not enough to meet MDGs.
- Africa’s emerging entrepreneurial culture: highlights from Compact Quarterly
- Africa’s first genome sequencing project was completed in 2004?
- Africans chose science and technology?
- Agribusiness is the pathway out of rural poverty
- An African first in technology development and commercialization; Bioleaching of Gold
- Another microfinance revolution in Kenya
- Arguments dramatically slow wound healing?
- Aspen Pharmaceutical to produce Bristol-Myers Squibb’s new generation anti-retroviral drug for Africa
- ATDF Call For Papers: Design-Revolution in Architecture and its Impact on Development
- ATDF Journal call of papers: ‚Technology and Human Empowerment’
- ATDF, UNCTAD and ETH-Zurich Host the Women Entrepreneurs
- Big boost for agricultural research to improve food security
- Boost your brain power
- Brazil in Africa
- Breast cancer gene mutation increases prostate cancer risk in men
- Call for Papers on education and vocational training for the ATDF Journal
- Call for papers on Intra-firm trade for ATDF Journal
- Call for papers on two issues: Climate change and Orphan crops
- Cell-phones as hand-held diagnostic devices
- China Proposes a Fund To Help Its Firms Fight IP Litigation
- Closing the loop between ideas and results
- Common fertility condition linked to headache
- Conference in Addis Ababa: Preparing the African youth for innovation in agriculture
- Considering South-South collaboration in the area of agricultural biotechnology
- Converting barren land into booming agriculture
- Crowdfunding may improve access to finance for small businesses
- Dawn of space technology and Africa- spectator or participant?
- Design for the other 90%
- Designer Babies and Genetic Technology Policies
- Designing cities that create homegrown development
- Development opportunities and challenges of international migration: Highlights from the UN Report
- Do you find angry faces stimulating?
- Drip Irrigation powered by Solar Cells
- E-mentoring as a tool to make ’Aid for Trade’ more effective
- Egypt: What does it mean for the future of Science and Technology in Africa and the Middle East?
- Entrepreneurial Finance Lab
- Financing Chinese Entrepreneurship
- Food Sovereignty and New Agricultural Protectionism
- Gains from control of bollworm undone by green mirids: The case of Bt-cotton in China
- Global Entrepreneurship Program for Development
- GM bacteria: A cleaner method to produce biodiesel
- Golden rice 2: Golden rice with more vitamin A
- Harnessing nanotechnology to treat cancer
- HIV causes brain tissue loss
- How China is changing the rules of investment through its procurement control
- How does development happen? The entrepreneurial state of Britain in the 18th century
- How to Debate Genetic Engineering in Agriculture?
- Incentivized prize competitions to stimulate sustainable technological change
- Innovation in emerging markets
- Innovation Prize for Africa
- Innovative Ideas wanted: ’Global Pulse 2010’
- Insulin sparks off type 1 diabetes
- Just published: UNCTAD Technology and Innovation Report 2010
- Landmark Report on the Role of Engineering in Development
- Laughing helps arteries and boosts blood flow?
- Let them it cake: the moral self-righteousness of the foodies
- Let there be light: the off-grid revolution in developing countries
- Linking farmers to remunerative markets in India
- Mens sana in corpore sano
- Mobile Communication in Africa
- Mobilizing enterprising people for development
- New Issue of ATDF Journal on Technology and Human Empowerment
- Nuclear energy: New report highlights a decline in the industry inspite the promises.
- Older siblings are smarter than the younger ones?
- One man’s take on Ghana: Have Ghanaians gone completely mad?
- Payments for Environmental Services (PES): Do they work?
- People lie more on the phone than by email
- Plants can overwrite the genetic code they inherit from their parents?
- Predicting future technological trajectories
- President George Bush unveils a $30 billion commitment to fight HIV/AIDS in Africa: The expectations.
- Private capital flows to Africa rise
- Private education initiatives in poor country on the rise
- Private Schools for the Poor?
- Promoting aspiring African designers of urban space
- Promoting safe and fuel-efficient stoves
- Public-private partnerships on the rise in Brazil’s health sector
- Researchers and farmers in India create markets for environmental goods
- Resurrected the deadliest bug: Do the risks outweigh benefits?
- Reverse Outsouring
- Revolutionising Power Generation
- Rolex Award Supporting Enterprising Individuals
- Saving Water and Fertilizer with Precision Agriculture
- Sawiri Scholarships for Innovative PhD students
- Scaling up financial services for the poor
- Smoking makes you foolish?
- Solving trade offs between development and environment
- South African scientists invent a cheap way to produce solar power
- Special Issue on Biotechnology and Sustainable Development
- Special Issue on Industrial Policy, Growth and Development
- Supermarkets block sustainable technological change in agriculture
- Technology helps coal become a greener energy source
- The “parallel entrepreneur” in Africa
- The changing corporate R&D strategy
- The desperate search for new ways of making money from music and music rights
- The first carbon nanotech transistor
- The gadgets for the poor: will they fly?
- The Merits of Innovation Prizes
- The New Harvest: Agricultural Innovation in Africa
- The passion to promote inventions; African American Inventors
- The person who invented the cloud did it for Africa
- The proliferation of cabinet ministries in Africa
- The revolution of frugal innovation
- The sex of your brain can make you ill
- The World is not Flat
- There is no cure for the holiday hangovers?
- Turning African Agriculture into a Business: A reader
- Urban malaria in Africa; An emerging potential crisis
- US State Department promotes E-mentoring
- Where was the world’s first heart transplant performed?
- Why ’Poor Economics’ contains some poor conclusions
- Why are CBD and its protocols failing to conserve biodiversity?
- Why cats prefer meats to sweets
- Why Globalization Works
- Women and Leadership in Africa
- Your daily fix of entrepreneurial ideas:
FEATURES
- A call for papers: A way out of the food crisis for Africa
- Advanced camera and sound techniques capture insect communications
- Africa debt deal moves welcomed
- Africa’s Opportunity to Grow
- Africa’s uncelebrated hero: Hamilton Naki,
- Alzheimer’s symptoms reversed in mice
- Biotechnology development and trade issues for developing countries
- Botswana HDR 2005: Harnessing Science and Technology for Human Development
- Cameroon’s Killer lakes may strike again
- Conference on Science, Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Addis Abeba
- Cote D Ivoire’s toxic-waste scandal and its fallouts
- Eat fish to keep your mind sharp in old age
- Ending Africa’s Poverty Trap
- Extra-virgin olive may keep cancer at bay
- Faculty of the Future
- Fish as an early warning system against terrorism.
- Genome sequencing for a $1000
- How Viet Nam increased agriculture production
- Intellectual Property Management in Health and Agricultural Innovation: A Handbook of Best Practices
- Is the rate of innovation falling?
- Kenya’s Youth Turn Sun into Energy
- Kenyan primary school goes digital
- Long-term mobile phone use doubles occurrence of rare tumour
- Major constraints to trade in processed agricultural products confronting developing countries
- Meeting Food Security Needs: The case of Cuba
- Meeting Food Security Needs: The case of Cuba
- MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS IN AFRICA
- NASA smashes a probe into a Comet.
- Our Common Interest: The report of the Commission for Africa
- Potato-based vaccine success comes too late
- Proud to be Africans
- Researchers uncover unexpected variation in X chromosome of women
- Science Breakthroughs of 2005
- Smelting zinc using sunlight: A cleaner and cheaper way to produce hydrogen
- Snuppy the cloned dog: A South Korean success
- South Africa’s health ministry accused of "betraying" the population over HIV/AIDS.
- The 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- The African Technology Development Forum Journal October 2006 Volume 3, Issue 3
- The failed UN draft convention banning human clone
- The greatest threat to globalisation: Protesters or globalisation’s cheerleaders?
- The Impact of Mobile Phones in Africa.
- The need for science editors: The case of GM potatoes that translates cysts into cancers
- The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2005 awarded for the discovery of Helicobacter pylori
- The Politically Incorrect Guide to Ending Poverty
- The technology leadership programme
- The UN ICT Benchmarking Tool
- The Wealth of Nations
- What is your list of top 10 environmental technologies?
- Why the world doesn’t go black when you blink.
JOURNAL
- ATDF Journal (December 2004) Vol.1 Issue 2
- ATDF Journal (March 2005) Vol. 2 Issue 1
- ATDF Journal on pharmaceuticals is out
- ATDF Journal Vol 2 Issue 2- Energy and Africa
- ATDF Journal Vol 2, Issue 1. A snapshot on African agriculture
- ATDF Journal Vol 3 Issue 1: Technology Transfer in Africa
- ATDF Journal Volume 2, Issue 3
- ATDF Journal Volume 2, Issue 3 is now out
- ATDF Journal Volume 2, Issue 4
- ATDF Journal Volume 3 Issue 2: A focus on entrepreneurship
- ATDF Journal Volume 3 Issue 4: Institutions
- ATDF Journal Volume 4 Issue 1 - 2007 ICTs
- ATDF Journal Volume 4 Issue 1 April (2007)
- ATDF Journal Volume 4 Issue 3: Competition
- ATDF Journal Volume 4, Issue 2: Role of Education in the Knowledge Economy
- ATDF Journal Volume 4, Issue 4: Infrastructure and Development
- ATDF JOURNAL VOLUME 5, ISSUE 1/2 OCT 2008
- ATDF JOURNAL VOLUME 5, ISSUE 3 and 4 June 2008
- ATDF Journal Volume 6 Issue 1&2, 2009 - A Focus on Education
- ATDF Journal Volume 6 Issue 3 & 4, 2009 - African Orphan Crops
- ATDF Journal Volume 7 Issue 1 & 2, 2010 - Architecture
- ATDF Journal Volume 7 Issue 3 & 4, 2010 - Industrial Policy
- ATDF Journal Volume 8 Issue 1 & 2, 2011 - Food Sovereignty
- ATDF Journal Volume 8 Issue 3 & 4, 2011 - Technology as a Tool of Empowerment
- Conference Announcement
- The ATDF Journal Volume 3 Issue 3 - Knowledge, IP and Development
JOURNAL ARTICLES
- 2009
- African Yam Bean: a Crop with Food Security Potentials for Africa
- Andreas Schleicher - Education as the key to long-term recovery
- Darcia Narvaez - Building Knowledge by Overcoming the Dualistic Mindset in Education
- Enhancing food security in Africa through science, technology and innovation
- Harnessing Biotechnology for Conservation and Increased Utilization of Orphan Crops
- Importance of Tissue Culture for Orphan Crops
- James Tooley - Low cost private schools as part of the solution for education for all
- John Perkins - The Role of Masdar Initiative and Masdar Institute of Science and Technology in Developing and Deploying Renewable Technologies in Emerging Economies
- Progress in Prevention of Toxico-nutritional Neurodegenerations
- Role of orphan crops in enhancing and diversifying food production in Africa
- Significance of Genome Sequencing for African Orphan Crops: the case of Tef
- Tailoring Bioinformatics for the Genetic Improvement of Orphan Crops
- The Comparative Genomics of Orphan Crops
- The Improvement of African Orphan Crops through TILLING
- Verena Weber and Annette Kull - Vocational & Professional Education and Training in Switzerland: A successful public-private partnership
- 2010-1
- Appropriateness is a moving target
- Design and Construction of the Mapungubwe National Park Interpretive Centre, South Africa
- Editorial
- NESTown: New Ethiopian Sustainable Town - A Real Life Experiment
- Sustainable urbanization: The missing bottom-up dimension
- The Problem and Potential of Sustainable Design in Resource Poor Settings: Cases from Rwanda
- Tile Vaulted Systems for Low-cost Construction in Africa
- 2010-2
- A resurgence in acquisition of industrial technology in Africa?
- Exploring the Constraints of Rural Enterprise Development and Poverty Reduction in Ghana
- From Science and Technology to Innovation for Development
- Overall Customer Satisfaction in Ghana’s Mobile Telecommunications Networks
- Problems facing Local Manufacturers in the Nigerian Agro-Allied Machine Fabrication Industry
- 2011
- Connecting catch-up growth to sustainable development - a new theoretical perspective
- Empowering micro-entrepreneurs and small businesses through mobile phones in emerging markets and developing countries
- Exploring the potential of new technologies to facilitate economic empowerment in developing countries: a focus on online networking
- Food Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development: The case of the Rice Sector in Costa Rica
- Food Sovereignty and its Discontents
- Food Sovereignty, Hunger and Global Trade Rules
- Food Sovereignty: Old Protectionism in Somewhat Recycled Bottles
- Food Sovereignty: The Idea‘s Origins and Dubious Merits
- Green entrepreneurship: the missing link towards a greener economy
- Innovation and Industrial Development in Africa
- Potential Frequency and Intensity of the Special Safeguard Mechanism
- Rural housing - Skill transfer and the milestones for scaling-up: The case of Sustainable Rural Dwelling Units (SRDU) in Ethiopia
KNOWLEDGE ESSENTIALS
- Innovation
- 3D Printing combines size and cheapness
- A TALE OF TWO COUNTRIES: ICT STRATEGIES FOR MALAYSIA AND MALI
- Addressing the Toilet Challenge
- Artificial throat to speed up ’taste’ tests
- Business in Africa
- Creating smart business: The Innovation Hub,
- Creative Powers in Emerging Countries
- Did you know?
- Driving change through education
- Enterprise Innovation Fund
- Entrepreneurs are not Gamblers
- Entrepreneurs should not look for the glamorous stuff
- Entrepreneurship Challenge Award 2007
- ESSAY COMPETITION: Tapping the Potential of Science, Technology and Innovation in Agri-food Chains in Africa.
- FINANCING TECHNOLOGY: FMO
- From Farm to Fork: Innovations in the Chicago Food Industry
- History of Innovation in US agriculture
- Hybrid Value Chains (HVC) unleash new opportunities
- Impact Through Partnership
- Innovation and passion; the history of matches
- Innovation is there, but where is the political will to mobilize it for development
- Is Microfinance contributing to development?
- Making it easier to link talent with opportunity
- MIT Entrepreneurship for Development
- Nollywood - an example of bottom-up entrepreneurship
- One Acre Fund
- Politics and science
- Potato-based vaccine success comes too late
- Profit-Seeking Start-ups vs. Rent-Seeking Bureaucracies
- Promoting Entrepreneurs in Africa
- Rethinking Industrial Policy
- Russia’s New Approach to Economic Growth
- Satellite Application Center: Africa in the Skies
- SME Finance Challenge
- Stanford initiative to drive sustainable change
- Technologies that changed the world lighting
- Technology Index of African Countries
- Ten Technologies that will change the world
- THE BUDDING INFORMATION TECHNOLOLY SECTOR IN TUNISIA
- The economic power of migrants
- The Entrepreneurial Farmer
- The Nobel Prize in Physics 2004 awarded for discovery of the colour interaction
- THE POCKET IMMUNOASSAY
- The rise of the virtual computer
- What makes entrepreneurs thrive?
- What type of entrepreneur are you?
- Why not a cardboard bicycle?
- Methods and manuals
- News on ICT/Energy/Biotech
- A searchable library for products of biotechnology
- Acceptance of New Technologies
- Africa at a glance: Leading countries in use of ICTs
- An unconventional glut: Natural Gas changes the rules of game
- Bottom-up ways to deliver electricity
- Bringing light to remote villages
- Corrupted Science
- Developing GM Cassava in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Dubious European AgBiotech Regulations
- E-licensing improves access to technology
- Food production: a glance
- Genetic Literacy Project
- Green Shoots: Agribusiness in India
- Just Published: Is Agricultural Biotechnology Part of Sustainable Agriculture?
- Making knowledge widely available
- The very real danger of bad journalism
- Online Course: Trade Policy
- Other Relevant Journals
- Africa Journals Online
- African journals on biotechnology
- AgBioforum
- Food Policy
- International Journal of Agricultural Resources Governance and Ecology
- International Journal of Biotechnology
- International Journal of Innovation Management
- International Journal of Technology Management (IJTM)
- International Network for the Availabability of Scientific Publications
- Journal issue on bricks and crops
- Journal of Accounting and Economics
- Journal of Small Business Management
- Research Policy
- Sustainability
- The International Journal of Technology and Globalization
- World Development
- Publications
- Teaching Materials
- BioForge
- Bioinformatics Resources
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Guide to Online Schools
- India’s National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning
- Innovative Design Resources
- On-line Course: The Fundamentals of International Trade Policy
- Small Business Guide
- Teaching biotechnology in schools
- The MIT’s OpenCourseWare
- The UN ICT Benchmarking Tool
- Trade Policy
- Arab spring does not yet deliver jobs
- Cartegena Protocol on Biosafety to the CBD
- Convention on Biological Diversity
- Future of Textiles and Clothing After 2005
- Intellectual Property
- Investment replacing aid?
- Kyoto Protocol
- Rules of Origin (ROO)
- Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures
- Tariff escalation
- Technical Standards
- Textiles and AGOA
- The Montreal Protocol
- The Rise of "The Rest"
- The Trading System
- Trade and the Transfer of Technology
- Trade policy issues and documents
- Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights
- Trade-Related Investment Measures (TRIMS)
- US Higher Education Initiative for Africa
- What is the WTO?
