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FACTS - Field Actions Science
Development, health, humanitarian action, education, environment - so many themes which, without being exhaustive, mobilize the intervention of numerous actors, NGO, governmental and multilateral agencies, academic institutions and consultancies world-wide.
From all these activities emerge knowledge, know‑how, results from experiments and valuable problem solving, which are not adequately disseminated and shared between actors in the field. The FACTS initiative, launched by Professor Kourilsky, aims to enhance, capitalise and disseminate the knowledge resources produced by field actions and foster their take up by all in routine actions.
The finality of FACTS initiative is to collect and to disseminate knowledge, methodologies, and best practices. Today this takes the form of an international journal "FACTS Reports", functioning according the rules which prevail in the scientific community.
creation of the international review "FACTS Reports" was announced last March 12th 2007, in Lyons, during the Forum Biovision and was officially released in December 2008.
2010 - Special issue 1 on Urban Agriculture
- Vanitha Kommu
Students Grow Their Own Vegetables in School Yards - A.Talukder, N.J.Haselow, A.K.Osei,E.Villate, D. Reario, H.Kroeun, L. SokHoing, A.Uddin, S.Dhunge and V. Quinn
Homestead Food Production Model Contributes to Improved Household Food Security and Nutrition Status of Young Children and Women in Poor Populations
Lessons Learned from Scaling-up Programs in Asia (Bangladesh, Cambodia, Nepal and Philippines) - Aggrey Daniel Maina Thuo
Community and social responses to land use transformations in the Nairobi rural-urban fringe, Kenya - Nana O.B. Ackersonand Esi Awuah
Urban Agriculture Practices and Health Problems among Farmers Operating on a University Campus in Kumasi, Ghana - Ubokudom E. Okon, Anselm A. Enete and Nsikan E Bassey
Technical efficiency and its determinants in garden egg (Solanum spp) production in Uyo Metropolis, Akwa Ibom State - Brody Lee, Tony Binns and Alan B Dixon
The Dynamics of Urban Agriculture in Hanoi, Vietnam
Previous issues :
Events
World Life Science Forum Biovision 2009
Two years after its official announcement, a conference on FACTS Reports has been held on March 10th within the World Life Science Forum Biovision 2009 (which has focused on "the contribution of Life Sciences to sustainable urban development"). The FACTS Reports Conference has brought together 25 international field actors to discuss major development issues such as the global water crisis, the food crisis, governance and health.
"FACTS Reports" side event - GDN Kuwait 2009
Founded in 1997 by among others Joseph Stiglitz, the Global Development Network (GDN) is home to a multidisciplinary group of academics, researchers, and policy-makers, all working toward the common goals of bridging the gap between research and policy.
The Annual meeting of the GDN was held in Kuwait City from February 3rd to February 5th 2009. Each year, around 700 participants from across the world attend the Annual meeting which raises major issues related to development.
The general topic of the 2009 GDN annual Conference was "Natural Resources and Development".
Honorary Board
Highly-respected people, composing the Honorary Board, have already accepted to support the FACTS Initiative.
Dedicated Editorial Boards
Call for papers
Two editorial boards have already been constituted, related to the topics of Health and the Economy.
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Call for papers Contributions or information requests should be sent to Nadia CAID, Development Director, Institut Veolia Environnement | |
Position paper
- The position paper (PDF 632 Ko) presenting the origin of the initiative and the plan for implementation
- Instructions to authors (PDF 51 Ko)
Partners of the journal
- Forum BioVision
- CARE
- Children Global Health Initiative
- French Agency for International Development
- Global Development Network
- Helen Keller International
- Institute of Emerging Diseases and Innovative Therapy
- MSF
- Save the Children
- University of California Berkeley
- University of California Merced
- University of California San Francisco
- Vertigo
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