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This UN Development Programme initiative helps drought-prone countries prepare for extreme weather events and reduce anticipated negative impacts. The website includes succinct overviews of drought-risk in individual African countries, as well as a comprehensive links section pointing to relevant networks, research centres, regional organisations and other sources of information, often in developing countries.
AMCOST provides a forum for formulating and implementing policies for science, technology and innovation issues that have an impact on African development. It was established by the New Partnership for Africa’s Development and the African Union in November 2003, and has since developed and adopted Africa’s Science and Technology Consolidated Plan of Action.
AMCOST's website outlines ongoing projects in biodiversity, energy, water, material sciences, mathematics and space science technologies, among others. It also offers information on the activities and rationale behind both the African Panel on Biotechnology and the African Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators Initiative.
AEGiS, a non-profit organization that is a web-based reference for HIV/AIDS information. AEGiS is a virtual HIV/AIDS library containing reference materials and late-breaking information from HIV/AIDS-specific publications and news sources from around the world. The site disseminates and archives information daily, offers e-communication lines, such as an Ask the Doc forum and documents pandemics via global historical database.
A service of the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO), BINAS monitors global developments in regulatory issues in biotechnology. The website contains up-to-date news information and a searchable database giving details of regulations, field trials and commercialisation of GM crops in different countries.
HDN is a non-profit organisation that supports electronic networking and communication for HIV/AIDS organisations around the world to promote a more effective response to the epidemic. This includes hosting a number of discussion forums for the exchange of ideas, information, and first-hand experiences. A network of correspondents reports from international conferences and provide country-specific perspectives.
Knowledge for Development is a web-based source of information on science and technology for agriculture and rural development in African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries. It promotes collaboration between agricultural research and development scientists and technologists in ACP countries, and facilitates dialogue between ACP and European communities with the aim of strengthening policy formulation on science and technology issues.
This website contains a number of useful documents on biofuels and biotechnology in ACP countries.
The Peat-Portal housed by the Global Environment Centre (GEC) is an online information portal on peatland management. The site is dedicated to exchange of information, identification of problematic areas in management, sharing of ideas, and enhancing global awareness of pertinent issues in peatland management. News and current issues on this topic are published in the newsletter, PeatMatters.
The Science Diplomacy Monitor, an initiative of the US-based Center on Public Diplomacy links to news, commentary and videos about science diplomacy from around the world that are published in mainstream media and on academic websites.
The SouthSouthNorth Project (SSN) is a network of organisations, research institutions and consultants. Its aim is to provide expertise in order to help public and private stakeholders deal effectively with the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). SSN operates in Brazil, South Africa, Bangladesh and Indonesia.
This website provides an online compendium of frequently used time series of global-change data. It includes historical and modern records of atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide and methane, isotopic measurements for atmospheric greenhouse gases, and estimates of global, regional, and national carbon dioxide emissions from the combustion of fossil fuels. Of particular interest is data relating to carbon flux from land-cover change, long-term temperature records, and the total cloud amount over China.
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