For the reasons above, and as we enter an era of water scarcity in much of Asia and are concerned with climate change, scientists are giving increased attention to the development of varieties that perform well under adverse environmental conditions.
Increased attention to their development largely stems from their role in enhancing income and employment, production of basic needs goods and alleviation of poverty (FAO, 2005; Kozak, 2007).
These critiques, alongside the increased attention to poverty and development associated with the Millennium Declaration and Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), prompted the growth of new aid initiatives which has characterised the latest phase of 'global' (as opposed to international) health [ 2].
Increased attention to early childhood development has often been positive for children and their families.
Comparing the pre-survey data with teachers' responses in the interviews, we have noticed increased attention to students' language development.
In recent years, many countries in the Asia-Pacific region have increased attention to early childhood development through policy reviews and through conducting research (see Rao & Pearson, 2008a, 2008b).
Africa aims to give increased attention to historical trends, issues of development and links between local and national levels of society.
Given this scenario of increased attention to Portuguese tools and the development of research towards techniques that can support this interest, this paper presents the state-of-the-art for RE in open texts and attempts in order to compare the approaches for Portuguese tools to it.
They suggested increased attention to monitoring and evaluation of capacity development, and closer links to emerging work on water governance.
But urbanization, an accelerated technological development and an increased attention to the environment are expected to work either as opportunity factors or threat factors while depending on the innovations of nuclear technology.
