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\n\t\t\tThere is limited knowledge about what does and what does not work to boost SME growth and create jobs. We need to keep searching for better answers.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Paradoxes in food security<\/a><\/h3>\n

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Connecting knowledge for food security<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tExciting news from The Broker! The Broker has been selected by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs to run the office of the Food and Business Knowledge Forum with two consortium partners.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tA green transformation should be a core element of the post-2015 agenda and achieving it will depend on whether we will be able to create the knowledge needed.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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PPPs in Uganda: start with farmers’ knowledge<\/a><\/h3>\n

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Engaging faith in the global water challenge<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tThe world of faith is a powerful and often neglected partner in the effort to overcome water challenges.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tFarmers need to organize and operate as a business unit, to receive knowledge on value chains prices more equally. \n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Providing access to agricultural knowledge <\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tSome African countries show that agricultural productivity and, thus, economic growth can increase significantly as access to knowledge improves and capacity strengthening activities are promoted, writes Myra Wopereis-Pura.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Integrating new players<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tFan Shenggen writes about advancing global food and nutrition security through an integrated approach with new players.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Urban agriculture for the urban poor <\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tUrban agriculture is a priority strategy in tackling challenges to feeding the world\u2019s population, regarding Diana Lee-Smith.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Opening statement on food security<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\nThis consultation on food security should shed light on who are the key and new actors in the global food security debate and how can they be better included? Does existing knowledge exchange increase innovative capacity?  \n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Towards a food secure world<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tExperts will debate tough questions on how to feed the world\u2019s population. It shed light on how effectively global knowledge and expertise on food security are being used.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tDe staatssecretaris wil vijf kennisplatforms oprichten. Wie moeten daar in zitten? Hoe worden de onderzoeksvragen bepaald? Zullen zuidelijke deelnemers sterk genoeg zijn tegenover Nederlandse institutionele of economische belangen? Het antwoord op…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Van onderzoek naar kennisintensivering<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tDe kennisbrief die staatssecretaris Knapen op 14 november 2025 stuurde naar de Tweede Kamer staat niet op zich, maar komt voort uit een lange traditie waarin onderzoek en ontwikkeling in nauwe samenhang met elkaar staan.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Aandacht voor informatie<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t04 December 2025
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\n\t\t\tIn de kennisbrief van staatssecretaris Ben Knapen komt het woord informatie niet voor. Daar dreigt een gevaar in, namelijk dat informatievoorziening als vanzelfsprekend wordt aangenomen. Vanzelfsprekend is ze niet. En gratis ook niet.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Moving towards open development<\/a><\/h3>\n

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Knuppel en knaken<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t29 November 2025
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\n\t\t\tTwintig jaar geleden gooide minister Jan Pronk de knuppel in het academische hoenderhok toen hij zei: \u201cIk ga het hele onderzoeksbeleid behoorlijk veranderen."\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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World Bank\u2019s priorities for Busan<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tToday, the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness has opened in Busan, Korea. The HLF4 is an opportunity for the global development community to come together and showcase the results that our partner countries have been producing, and to sh…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Building egalitarian relations<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tWe have followed very closely the exchanges around the new Knowledge Policy and we would like to give a small contribution to the ongoing debate.We welcome that the Dutch government explicitly recognizes in its Knowledge Policy of development coop…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Platform of vals plat<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t27 November 2025
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Houdt ambassades op de achtergrond<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tDe brief van de Staatssecretaris van Buitenlandse Zaken over kennisbeleid valt in vijf secties uiteen. Zo is ook het commentaar ingedeeld.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t23 November 2025
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\n\t\t\tOm kennis voor ontwikkeling op strategische en effectieve wijze in te zetten is een overkoepelende visie op ontwikkeling nodig. Te lange tijd zijn de ogen gesloten voor de negatieve externaliteiten van het internationaal handels- en…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tDe contouren van het nieuwe kennisbeleid voor OS zijn vastgesteld en de details zullen de komende maanden worden uitgewerkt.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tThe Dutch Department of Foreign Affairs\u2019 knowledge policy proposal has provoked a number of valuable reactions. Some responses target the government\u2019s broader knowledge policy or the proposed knowledge platforms, whereas others zoom in on a specif…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tEr zijn veel redenen om positief te reageren op de kennisbrief van staatssecretaris Knapen. Een beter begrip van het fenomeen ontwikkeling en hoe internationale samenwerking  tot ontwikkeling leidt op die plaatsen in de wereld waar dat het ha…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tAccording to the State Secretary\u2019s letter, the chief reason for introducing his new measures is to improve the quality of policy through better knowledge and its management, including quality control (\u2018bewaking van de wetenschappelijke kwaliteit\u2019)…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t20 November 2025
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t19 November 2025
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\n\t\t\tVan de aanzienlijke brievenstroom die momenteel vanuit het Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken vloeit, is de brief over het kennisbeleid voor het CDA van groot belang. Het beleid van het huidige kabinet is gestoeld op de gedachte dat Nederland zich…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t19 November 2025
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\n\t\t\tThe recent government paper on a new Dutch knowledge policy for international cooperation is relevant far beyond this country alone. We agree that the debate it has created is important and should be held in English, if only because a wide constit…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t18 November 2025
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\n\t\t\tOp 14 november heeft de Staatssecretaris zijn lang verwachte kennisbrief naar de Tweede Kamer gestuurd. De kennisbrief schetst nog slechts de contouren van een kennisbeleid maar is een goede aanzet.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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A meta-analysis of practice, policy and theories <\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t17 November 2025
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\n\t\t\tThe discussion in this blog is about shaping platforms for knowledge generation, exchange and utilisation. Our input identifies the function of a knowledge platform as using existing research, in practice, policy and academia, for a meta-level ana…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMichiel Keyzer<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t|
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t15 November 2025
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\n\t\t\t\u201cWie niet sterk is moet slim zijn\u201d, dat is volgens mij voor DGIS de kern van het WRR-rapport \u201cMinder pretentie, meer ambitie\u201d. Slim zijn in het omgaan met schaarse middelen, maar ook beseffen hoe een klein en van het buitenland afhankeli…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Ranking transparency<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t15 November 2025
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\n\t\t\tJust 2 weeks before the High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, the global campaign for aid transparency, Publish What You Fund, has released a ranking of the transparency of aid donors.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t09 November 2025
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\n\t\t\tZoals al in bijdragen van anderen is aangegeven, zouden de voorgestelde kennisplatforms buiten de zogenaamde \u201cgouden driehoek\u201d van overheid, bedrijfsleven en kennisinstituten moeten staan. Dit geeft de mogelijkheid om ook watergebruikers en gebrui…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Breng water en voedselzekerheid bijeen<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t09 November 2025
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\n\t\t\tIk zie inderdaad het nut in van een kennisplatform dat zich richt op water en ontwikkelinghulp. Mijn verhaal heeft betrekking op waterbeheer en bescherming tegen overstromingen. Niet op drinkwatervoorziening en afvalwater behandeling.Zo\u2019n 6000 jaa…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tOp 21 september 2025 bespraken experts tijdens een consultatiebijeenkomst het nieuwe kennisbeleid op het ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken. Lees hier het verslag van de middagsessie.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tOp 21 september 2025 organiseerde het ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken een consultatiebijeenkomst over het nieuwe kennisbeleid. Lees hier het verslag van de ochtendsessie.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tLaat ik ter wille van de discussie maar eens een knuppel in het hoenderhok gooien. Ik zie, in alle eerlijkheid, niet in wat de vier, of vijf, voorgestelde kennisplatforms kunnen gaan opleveren.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tOp 14 november 2025 stuurde Staatssecretaris Ben Knapen de kennisbrief naar de Tweede Kamer. Het nieuwe kennisbeleid zich zal concentreren op vijf kennisplatforms. Lees hieronder de gehele brief of via deze link.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tWorldbank development research director Martin Ravallion suggests an ‘Ex-ante Survey of Knowledge on Impact’ as a condition for funding a project or policy proposal. This should enhance the ‘demand for knowledge’, the actual use of research by pol…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tIssue 25 of The Broker is a milestone. A fitting moment to look back at four years of pioneering journalism. More importantly, The Broker is at a crossroads, about to embark on an exciting new venture. This month we are launching an entirely new w…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tCities are a breeding place for innovation in an increasingly urbanized world. Networks of local urban organizations specialized in generating and sharing knowledge are playing an important role in addressing urban development and poverty.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tWeblog linked to the Third International Conference on Eco-Efficiency Modelling and Evaluation for Sustainability: Guiding Eco-Innovation and Consumption Global industrialization is coming, with an increasing proportion of the world populatio…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tValue chain development is a key concept in strategies to reduce rural poverty in developing countries. For entrepreneurs, such chains promise a way to access new markets as well as to add value to their products. But value chains often exclude th…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\u201cThe supply of knowledge and the demand for knowledge often do not match because the worlds of the fact searching expert and the power struggling decision maker are too far apart. A new specialist, the knowledge broker, is needed to bridge the ga…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tThe responses thus far to the special report on civic driven change (The Broker 10) have helped to launch a public and international conversation with far-ranging implications for the work of democracy building and development. I look forward to h…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tIn this series of articles, practitioners in the field of international cooperation describe the dilemmas and research issues they and their organizations face, the ways in which researchers can help resolve them and the questions they would like…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tThe traditional focus of development research on local and national processes has been rendered obsolete by the new global power relations. Researchers must be more concerned about relevance than academic excellence. And open knowledge networks ar…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tBroker readers interested in cross-disciplinary research at the edge of science and technology and social sciences may want to browse these two websites: www.4sonline.org and www.historyoftechnology.org. Both look at science and technology in thei…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tI am one of those terrible people who never have enough time, always busy, with too many urgent things to do or meetings to attend. I am constantly zapping and scanning and sniffing around, to get an idea of what is going on in the many fields of…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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