Agriculture for development
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- Women, food security and agriculture in a global marketplace: A significant shift
- ( R. Mehra;M. Hill Rojas / International Center for Research on Women, USA , 2008)
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New directions in development assistance and agricultural investments must recognize and support women's involvement in the full agricultural value chain from production to processing to marketing....
- Discrimination and food rights
- ( UN Human Rights Council , 2010)
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This study on discrimination in the context of the right to food was produced for the fourth session of the Advisory Committee of the UN Human Rights Council held in February 2010. The study c...
- Land multi-functionality is still unrecognised in rural Macedonia
- ( K. Todorov;M. Vittuari / , 2010)
- Agriculture is still the basic economic activity in rural Macedonia. This paper aims at assessing the place that agriculture has in the country's overall economy, analysing the basic structure and inc...
- The role of multifunctional land use in Rural Development Policy in Bulgaria
- ( D. Kopeva;M. Peneva;S. Madjarova / AgEcon Search , 2010)
- The sustainable development of rural areas nowadays faces the challenges of global changes. This paper aims to review the concept of land use and landscape multi-functionality in order to help adaptin...
- Food production and the food system must assume a much higher priority in political agendas across the world
- ( Foresight UK , 2011)
- The global food system will experience an unprecedented combination of pressures over the next 40 years. Global population size looks likely to increase from nearly seven billion today to over nine bi...
- Does the Malawian tobacco industry help the poorest?
- ( T. Takane / Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organisation, Tokyo , 2005)
- The economy of Malawi is heavily dependent on tobacco. Tobacco makes up the single-largest portion of Malawi’s merchandise exports, generating about 45 billion kwacha of export revenue in 2003....
- 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...
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