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		<title>The globalisation of vulnerability</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 20:15:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most analysts agree that globalisation has become more intensive and dramatic in recent decades because of advances in technology, communications, science and transportation. While it can be a catalyst for development and progress, globalisation also carries significant and increasing challenges for aid policy makers and practitioners alike. I: The new face of vulnerability? Recent years [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&#038;blog=10132762&#038;post=1654&#038;subd=aidontheedge&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An interview on complexity and aid</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 15:27:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;Because of our urgency to end poverty, we act as if development is a construction, a matter of planning and engineering, rather the complex and often opaque set of interactions that we know it to be&#8230; This is a excerpt from a recent interview I gave to Dennis Whittle (former CEO of Global Giving). Click [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&#038;blog=10132762&#038;post=1627&#038;subd=aidontheedge&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Land is not Linear: Towards the Brown Revolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 01:42:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year&#8217;s Buckminster Fuller Prize winner, Operation Hope, has seen the transformation  of 6,500 acres of parched and degraded grasslands in Zimbabwe into healthy pastures despite extended periods of drought. The story behind Operation Hope is an inspiring one with real insights on how complexity science concepts can help transform development practices on the ground. First, the background to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&#038;blog=10132762&#038;post=987&#038;subd=aidontheedge&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Towards the Twig-Frame: Update on Complex Adaptive System Conference in Arusha 31st Sept – 3rd September</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 06:47:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two weeks ago we blogged about a fascinating event taking place in Arusha, convened by World Vision, which aimed to explore how complex adaptive systems thinking can be used to transform approaches to rural development. Below is a round-up of the event. Special thanks are due to Miriam Booy of World Vision for  both synthesising the material [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&#038;blog=10132762&#038;post=1156&#038;subd=aidontheedge&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Governance, Ecosystems and Livelihoods: New Strategies for Transformational Development</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:27:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week sees what promises to be a fascinating event bringing together practitioners and scientists to reflect on issues of complex adaptive systems and rural development, organised by World Vision Canada in Arusha. The three day conference has a special focus on the lessons from an innovative programme to enhance aid agency staff and community leaders [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&#038;blog=10132762&#038;post=1019&#038;subd=aidontheedge&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Coping with Complexity in Agricultural Water Management</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An 2009 IFAD report highlights the importance of complexity for improving agricultural water management. It suggests that conventional project management approaches are not suitable for coping with complexity-oriented interventions, and also emphasises the importance of combining professional competence and complexity-related capabilities for achieving programmatic success. The paper is &#8216;geared towards promoting further discussions and reflections, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&#038;blog=10132762&#038;post=485&#038;subd=aidontheedge&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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