Refugee Enterprise is concerned with income-generating projects for refugees from poor countries and now in poor host countries, such as Ethiopian refugees in Somalia or Afghan refugees in Pakistan. Many of these refugees cannot return home. They are neither allowed to become local citizens, nor can they expect a third country to take them. As aid to the refugees is slowly withdrawn, they need to be more self-reliant, but there are many constraints. Taking a wide definition of income-generating activities, outside agencies can help these refugees. Help can come from relief agencies starting to look beyond the relief phase, or from development agencies adjusting their regular activities to the more restricted situation of refugees. The book is also designed for field workers involved in starting or running refugee income-generating (IG) programmes.
Australia grows only the higher quality Arabica coffees, which are used in the speciality or roast and ground market. Whilst present production is small (around 500 tonnes) there is potential to replace a significant proportion of the 15,000 tonnes of Arabica coffee imported into Australia annually. This section of the market is growing at a rate of over 6% per year, as the demand for instant coffee steadily declines. Expansion of Australia's coffee industry is limited by the area of suitable land for mechanised coffee production, the availability of irrigation water and competition with other crops. With the cost of water set to escalate through water trading, it is imperative that a cost/ benefit analysis on the return per megalitre of water be carried out to assist investors in this industry make sound decisions on water use that will provide an acceptable return on investment. This publication examines how efficient use of irrigation can assist the coffee industry to achieve quality production with minimum environmental impact. It looks at the optimum water requirements and likely returns/megalitre to grow coffee in the sub-tropics and establishes design criteria for irrigation and storage systems.
The present book gives an exceptional overview of molecular imaging. Practical approach represents the red thread through the whole book, covering at the same time detailed background information that goes very deep into molecular as well as cellular level. Ideas how molecular imaging will develop in the near future present a special delicacy. This should be of special interest as the contributors are members of leading research groups from all over the world.
Proceedings of the 23rd annual conference of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education, held in Melbourne in December 2012. The conference theme was 'the profession of engineering education: advancing teaching, research and careers' and the conference explored opportunities for improving teaching and scholarship, rigorous research in engineering education and career advancement as an engineering educator.
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