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Publications
Delivering the Post-2015 Development Agenda
Publisher – UNDP
Published - 31 Oct 2014 - 32 pages
Summary
One year ago the United Nations
Development Group (UNDG)
released a summary of a global
consultation process on the world
that people want. The report, ‘A
Million Voices’, captured the results
of nearly 100 national dialogues on post-2015, 11 thematic
consultations, and a vibrant e-discussion and global survey,
MY World.
The current report picks up where ‘A Million Voices’ left
off, and looks in more depth at the factors within each
country that will support or impede implementation. A
set of Dialogues has been exploring these factors and are
still capturing ideas around these six topics: Localising the
post-2015 development agenda, Helping to strengthen
capacities and build effective institutions, Participatory
Monitoring for Accountability, Partnerships with civil
society, Engaging with the Private Sector and Culture and
development.
The overarching message is that all these means of
implementation will require sufficient investment if the
new post-2015 development agenda is to make a real
difference to people’s lives. Whatever the specific topic
of discussion several principles merge again and again:
participation, inclusion, and the need for strengthened
capacities and partnerships.
Only an agenda that focuses on effective implementation,
including through these aspects, will do justice to the
aspirations and hopes of the millions of people around the
world who have guided governments to this new agenda—
the future they want.
Dirty water, dirty crops?
Irrigated urban vegetable farming in Ghana: Characteristics,
benefits and risk mitigation
Authors: Drechsel, P.; Keraita, B. (Eds.) 2014. 247p.
Publishers: IWMI-led CGIAR Research Program on
Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE).
Reducing risks in urban vegetable production
Crop irrigation with polluted water has caused a bit of a stink
with policymakers and the public. Is the food safe to eat? Are
there risks to the farmers
themselves? If so, how
can we reduce these
risks?
Rapid urbanization
in sub-Saharan Africa
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Wastewater irrigation in Ghana

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has brought about a boom in small-scale farming in and
around cities. But the majority of these farms use water
from rivers and streams polluted with sewage. In Ghana,
an estimated 40,000 hectares is irrigated this way.
The issue and what to do about it are explored in ]Z[[