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  Inter-sectoral strategy for food security in India: need or fad? An investigation through participatory methods

  United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 2008

  This paper examines the debate which surrounds the uni-sectoral versus inter-sectoral, or integrated, approach as a strategy for food security and poverty alleviation.
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  Soaring food prices and the rural poor: feedback from the field

  International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2008

  The prices of basic food commodities have increased rapidly over the past three years and, as a result, the threat to food security in developing countries has increased significantly. This paper by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), examines what soaring food prices at the global level mean for poor rural people across the developing world.
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  Striving for growth, bypassing the poor? A critical review of Rwanda’s rural sector policies

  Institute of Development Policy and Management, University of Antwerp, 2007

  This paper critically analyses the challenges and priorities for Rwanda’s rural sector policies in the fight against poverty. The lessons drawn are important, the author asserts, as this sector will be at the forefront of Rwanda’s new Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Strategy (EDPRS or PRSP-2).
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  Ten reasons why the Rockefeller and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundations’ Alliance for another green revolution will not solve the problems of poverty and hunger in Sub-Saharan Africa

  Institute for Food and Development Policy, 2008

  This article analyses the effectiveness of the investment that the Rockefeller Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation recently announced - a joint ‘Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa’ (AGRA). The authors argue that, based on the first Green Revolution experience, this initiative will not succeed because:
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  Economic and social survey of Asia and the Pacific 2008

  United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 2008

  Examines the region’s key short and medium term prospects and challenges in macroeconomic and selected social areas and studies long-term development issues for the developing countries in the region.
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  Quest for economic development in agrarian localities: Lessons from West Nile, Uganda

  Institute of Social Studies, Netherlands, 2008

  This paper describes the transformations that have taken place in the honey production and marketing in West Nile since the launch of the National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) programme in 2001. In pursuing local economic development, emphasis has been placed on community-based development and the formation of clusters of survival enterprises.
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  Setting priorities among indigenous fruit tree species in Africa: examples from Southern, Eastern and Western Africa Regions

  CAB International, 2008

  Priority setting in agricultural research has received considerable attention in recent years, the objective being to determine the species for which domestication research (i.e. research regarding the selection, management and propagation of a plant) would be likely to have the highest impact.
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  Farmer Participatory Research in Northern Tanzania

  Farm Africa, 2007

  This document reviews the demand-led participatory model of farmer research and extension implemented by FARM-Africa Tanzania in their Babati Rural Development Research project (2000–2005).
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  Regoverning markets programme: innovative practice series

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2007

  Rapid changes are taking place in agri-food markets in middle and low-income countries and small-scale agriculture, which supports the livelihoods of the majority of rural poor, is poorly prepared for these changes.
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  Southern Africa food security outlook: October 2007 to March 2008

  Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2007

  This report summarises the results of a study of the food security outlook for Southern Africa, highlighting the major threats to food security in the period October 2007 to March 2008. It incorporates the findings from six country outlooks, and aims to provide a basis for regional and global resource allocation and contingency planning, as well as in-country planning.

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