Agriculture for development
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- FAO reporting on global hunger in 2009
- ( Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations , 2009)
- This is the tenth progress report on world hunger since the 1996 World Food Summit (WFS). It highlights that the food crisis has twinned with the economic crisis increasing the number of hungry people...
- Can Lesotho's households achieve food security by buying food rather than growing it?
- ( S.D. Turner / , 2009)
- Food insecurity remains a major challenge for Lesotho. This report offers a brief review of strategic issues and options in support for food security there. The paper shows that the nature of the chal...
- Factors that enable poor farmers to leave the poverty trap in Malawi
- ( M. Hatlebakk / Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway , 2009)
- An obvious pathway out of poverty for poor households in agricultural based economy is to supplement agricultural incomes with non-farm economic activities. This paper identifies livelihood strategies...
- Land grab or land investment: lessons from Africa
- ( Economic and Social Department, FAO , 2009)
- Foreign acquisitions of farm land in developing countries have become the focus of concern. Many observers consider them a new form of colonialism that threatens food security of the poor. However, in...
- Rising food prices and farmer seed access: what are the impacts?
- ( M. Smale;M. Cohen;L. Nagarajan / International Food Policy Research Institute , 2009)
- This report provides case-specific responses to key seed policy issues based on the relationship between seed markets and high food prices, which were discussed at the project findings meeting at FAO ...
- Land acquisition: is there a code of conduct?
- ( J. von Braun (ed);R. Meinzen-Dick (ed) / International Food Policy Research Institute , 2009)
- One of the effects of the food price crisis on the world food system is the increasing acquisition of farmland in developing countries by other countries seeking to ensure their food supplies....
- Small farmers’ deliberative democracy for decision making in Zimbabwe
- ( E. Rusike (ed) / , 2003)
- This article is about a citizen’s jury in Zimbabwe that was held in a bid to improve the quality and relevance of policies that affect smallholder farmers who are struggling economically. The pu...
- Can biotechnology produce another green revolution?
- ( S. Brooks / STEPS Centre, Institute of Development Studies , 2004)
- This paper investigates issues around the diffusion of genetially modified (GM) technologies and products to developing countries. This has become central to a debate that has shifted away from techni...
- Poverty reduction through livelihoods diversification in rural Tanzania
- ( J. de Weerdt / Journal of Development Studies , 2009)
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In order to increase the impact of poverty reduction programmes, development practitioners are increasingly attempting to understand the reasons why particular communities and individuals are ...
- Role of agricultural technology in promoting economic growth: lessons from China
- ( J. Huang;S. Rozelle / International Food Policy Research Institute , 2009)
- This report outlines the growth success registered by China over the past decades. It states that China’s rapid economic growth would not have been possible without successful growth in the agri...
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