Relates the story of ten years of knowledge and experience of a team of development researchers investigating sustainable rural livelihoods in the community of Arsaal in arid north-eastern Lebanon. Covers how fruit growing became a source of conflict between the growers and pastoralists, the problems of poor soil conditions, limited access to water and loss of biodiversity, and lack of access to agricultural extension knowledge and services as well as to markets for fruit products and women's handicrafts.

Can dryland communities cope with the global changes sweeping the world today? Is their predicament limited to their difficulty of building livelihoods on precarious natural resources? Can development research and external interventions offer any sustainable and fruitful partnerships to this end? This book relates the story of a relationship between a poor rural community in arid Lebanon and a development research project and their common journey to embrace sustainable resource use. The book compiles 10 years of knowledge and experience of a team of development researchers investigating sustai.

Research for Development in the Middle East and North Africa

This title was first published in 2002. In 2000, a major international conference was organized by the Arab Planning Institute to identify, analyze and compare development challenges facing Arab countries at the dawn of the new millennium. An interdisciplinary team of scholars were brought together from the fields of regional science, development studies, economics, business and government policy and together they addressed global, regional and domestic challenges and their impact on the Arab region. This volume brings together the best papers presented at this conference. In doing so, it offers up-to-date insights into, and a clearer understanding of this region. It highlights issues including: economic and social implications of globalization; strategic alliances; the implications for Arab countries of emerging technological patterns; the impact of the European Monetary Union and the euro; Arab regional integration; education; and the development of individual Arab country's economies.

This study aims at providing Arab countries with a comprehensive framework to formulate Innovation Policy that supports economic growth and contributes to the achievement of the 2030 Development Agenda. The targeted audience is high and middle level policymakers involved in the elaboration, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation of innovation policies and strategies. It also targets other stakeholders (firms, universities and education institutions, research centres, and broader economic and social actors) involved in the implementation of innovation policies. This study relies on the internationally recognized frameworks, experience and best practices of developed countries and emerging economies, who managed to elaborate successful catch up strategies and reached technological and related social development levels comparable to advanced countries. The study also takes into account the status of innovation in the Arab countries and proposes framework that address the challenges of the national innovation systems in the Arab region. Furthermore, it discusses how Innovation Policies in the Arab region should be adapted to contribute to the fulfilment of the 2030 Development Agenda SDGs. Furthermore, the study presents how Innovation Policies could support specific issues of sustainable development that are of particular importance to Arab countries; as example: youth employment, climate change and social innovation. Readers should note that ESCWA will publish in the coming years series of reports that will show the role of innovation in specific sectors and particular SDGs.

First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Canada and the Middle East: In Theory and Practice provides a unique perspective on one of the world’s most geopolitically important regions. From the perspective of Canada’s diplomats, academics, and former policy practitioners involved in the region, the book offers an overview of Canada’s relationship with the Middle East and the challenges Canada faces there. The contributors examine Canada’s efforts to promote its interests and values—peace building, peacekeeping, multiculturalism, and multilateralism, for example—and investigate the views of interested communities on Canada’s relations with countries of the Middle East. Canada and the Middle East will be useful to academics and students studying the Middle East, Canadian foreign policy, and international relations. It will also serve as a primer for Canadian companies investing in the Middle East and a helpful reference for Canada’s foreign service and journalists stationed abroad by providing a background to Canadas interestsand role in the region. Co-published with the Centre for International Governance Innovation