According to latest estimates, "in the so-called global village , about 130
million children, the majority of whom are rural, do not have a pencil or a
pen, nor a book, nor a teacher, and do not go to school," Ms.

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Whether the issue is privatization , welfare, healthcare, or
foreign policy, conservative ideas are winning."
Nevertheless, Rich hopes to push the world of philanthropy to take
these strategies more seriously and engage in the battle .
The Summit, which was the first of its kind in the Middle East, aimed to
develop practical solutions to address the most important issues facing
emerging nations and to inspire the development of the next generation of
entrepreneurs and innovators.

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More information on this and other articles is available online:
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Illiteracy and hunger
"You cannot promote agriculture if you fail to educate rural people,"
stressed Ms.
Education plays a fundamental role in improving the food security, incomes
and productivity of rural people. Youth Innovation - Creating a culture of innovation among young people
by rewarding risk-taking.

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"To make matters more difficult , progressive think
tanks have a hard time getting general organizational support," Rich
writes .
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A New Online Education Tool Kit on Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries

WASHINGTON and ROME, For the first time, a tool
kit including a wide range of teaching and learning tools for the education of
rural people is available on the Internet.

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Mainline Foundations and Think Tanks Outspend Their Opponents Yet They're Losing the ''War of Ideas '' Says Article in Stanford Social Innovation Review

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The Stanford Social Innovation Review is published by the Center
for Social Innovation at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Building on the Business School's 34-year-old commitment to public and
nonprofit management, the Center promotes solutions to social problems
through a unique combination of interdisciplinary research and
teaching that extends beyond the classroom.

"The tool kit will help policy-makers to implement education programs and
improve the quality level of education in rural areas," said Lavinia
Gasperini, an FAO expert who works in close collaboration with UNESCO and
several other organizations on the Education for Rural People initiative,
launched at the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002.

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"Conservatives have found ways to package
and market their ideas in more compelling ways, and their money is
providing more bang for the buck," he writes. "The first Millennium Development Goal -- reducing
hunger and poverty -- will not be achieved unless we give a higher priority to
improving education in rural areas, where the majority of the people live. Gasperini said. "The next step, which we will
announce soon, will be a partnership between a Fortune 100 corporation and one
of the world's most populated Third World countries to test pilot what we have
learned at this Summit. Innovation Clusters - Developing knowledge-based centers with the
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Access to Capital - Establishing public-private partnerships to
generate the funds necessary for entrepreneurs to transform their
creative ideas into lucrative enterprises. Social Innovation - Eliminating red tape and regulatory impediments to
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center of policy making. Cultural Collaboration - Encouraging cross-culture collaboration that
enables countries and businesses to work together. Additional information is available at http: //www.

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"The advantage lies in how the money is spent,"
writes Andrew Rich, an assistant professor of political science at
City College of New York.
These children will become illiterate adults who will join the 880 million
illiterates in the world, the majority of whom are rural adults.

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As a result, progressive organizations have difficulty
sustaining operating staff and functions. "They are not necessarily
going to support progressive efforts in the war of ideas," he said.
The tool kit is a valuable resource for all those whose daily work
consists in training the rural poor in the fields of food and nutrition, local
knowledge systems, agrobiodiversity, food quality and safety, rural finance,
marketing, forestry, fisheries, communication and other related issues.

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The Education for Rural People Tool Kit Web page was launched today by the
UN Food and Agriculture Organization."
The components agreed to at the gathering include:

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STANFORD, Calif. For now, he does not expect the current crop of liberal and
mainline foundations to change their strategy in order to compete head
on with their conservative counterparts. It also helps to promote new technologies,
as literate people are more inclined to adopt these technologies and to
protect their environment.
For more information on FAO visit http://www.

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project resonate.
Rich's first book, Think Tanks, Public Policy, and the Politics of
Expertise (Cambridge University Press, 2004) examined the nineties'
rise of the "conservative attack machine," which did not come from
conservative groups as he had expected, but grew out of conservative
think tanks pushing politicians to be more conservative in their
approach to policy making.
"Almost ten years later, very little has changed," observed Rich,
whose next book will delve further into the war of ideas in American
politics.
"They don't see that as their role. Participants included leaders such as Oman's
minister of Commerce + Industry, His Excellency Maqbool bin Ali Sultan;
Michael D. Empowerment of Women - Making a commitment for equality in the
workplace by giving women the support, access and opportunities needed,
both in education and business, to contribute to the overall good of
their nations' economies.

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The path outlined by the world
leaders includes establishing knowledge-based business clusters, cultivating a
culture of innovation among youth, facilitating access to capital, identifying
best practices , eliminating red tape, empowering women and encouraging cross-
culture collaboration.

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"You then find audiences in the news media and among the
general public and you republish the work fashioned to those specific
audiences.fao. The organization delivers powerful solutions for a cross section
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----Mainstream and
liberal foundations are pouring more money into public policy
institutes, or think tanks, than conservative foundations, yet the
latter have been far more successful in actually influencing public
policy and mass media, according to an article in the Spring 2005
issue of the Stanford Social Innovation Review (www. And they are winning
because conservatives are spending resources more effectively to
advance their ideas.
In contrast, the conservative approach is: "When you finish the
research, your job is only half done," said Rich in an interview with
the Review."
Also, think tanks on the left tend to specialize by issue area and
are therefore unable to be as nimble in redeploying their resources
toward promoting top-of -mind ideas as priorities shift in Congress and
the White House. It will provide governments, NGOs ,
international organizations, rural school teachers, extension agents and the
public at large with the latest knowledge on how to help rural communities
ameliorate their livelihoods. Conversely , illiteracy and lack of education reduce
earning capacity and contribute to hunger and poverty.org

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Here's why:
Mainline and liberal foundations are preoccupied with generating
unbiased and scientific research. White, chairman of PepsiCo International; Richard Stevens, Boeing
senior vice president; Jonathan Lord, Humana chief innovation officer; Stephen
R.

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For them , think tanks and policy institutes should be
homes to the disinterested expert," Rich writes.ssireview .World Summit on Innovation and Entrepreneurship Attended by 600 of the World's
Leading Innovators and Entrepreneurs From 55 Countries

MUSCAT, Oman, A strategy to encourage innovation
and entrepreneurship in emerging nations was agreed to in a gathering of
business, government and NGO leaders from around the world in a three-day
meeting in Muscat, Oman that concluded today .

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"The primary concern when it comes
to funding think tanks is in funding rigorous research that strives to
be neutral.

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"By taking the necessary steps to change policy and obstructive cultural
barriers and working in collaboration with the private sector, emerging
countries that have struggled for economic success in the past can achieve
what, until now, has been unachievable," said Hamdan.

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Morse, managing director of MIT 's Entrepreneurship Center; Tom Stewart,
editor-in-chief of Harvard Business Review; and Ahmed Sheikh , editor-in-chief
of Aljazeera.

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"After all, they're already spending the money ," he said. The Center dissolves
traditional sector boundaries, bringing together nonprofit leaders ,
corporate executives, government officials, and philanthropists to
discuss, debate, analyze, and take action to strengthen our
communities."
Hunger, malnutrition and food insecurity reduce school attendance and
erode cognitive abilities.
"In this gathering we laid the groundwork for historic advancement among
emerging nations, not only by charting the course that will enable them to
prosper, but by winning the commitment of business and government leaders to
make the changes necessary to facilitate the success of entrepreneurs and
build a culture of innovation," said Sam Hamdan, chairman of the Global
Leadership Team which arranged the gathering.

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