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    Land issues in poverty reduction strategies and the development agenda: Philippines

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2002
    Access to land and productive inputs is a strong predicate for poverty alleviation. In the Philippines, the poor are strongly dependent on access to land for their livelihood and welfare.
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    Spotlight on publications: smallholder farmers and rural development

    Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
    The publications presented in this overview represent some of the key resources dealing with a variety of issues related to rural development and small-scale farming in Latin America. The selected publications focus on: Market Access ; Territorial Development ; Rural Development ; Agricultural Productivity ; Reality of Smallholder Farmers ; and Land Use and Rights .
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    Rice reforms and poverty in the Philippines: a CGE analysis

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2004
    The quantitative restriction (QR) on rice will last until the end of 2004. The paper employs a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model to analyze the possible poverty and distributional effects of the rem oval of QR and the reduction in tariff on rice imports.
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    Rice that Filipinos grow and eat

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2005
    The culture of dryland rice in the Philippines, as in the case of mainland Southeast Asia, is believed to be older than the wetland system of cultivation. Rice was originally grown under upland condition as a component of shifting and subsistence farming. Not long after, lowland rice culture began to spread along coastal areas and riverbanks.
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    The regional development plans for the southern economic corridor in Peru: linking the coffee, alpaca, and auto-Part industries with the world

    Korea Development Institute, 2012
    The South Korean Knowledge Sharing Program (KSP( 2011 in Peru has been implemented by the Market Economy Research Institute (MERI). Entitled Enhancing the Competitiveness of SMEs in the Southern Economic Corridor in Peru: Some Pilot Action Programmes, the initiative focused on three regional industries-the alpaca, coffee, and automotive-parts.
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    Agricultural growth and rural incomes: Rural performance indicators and consumption patterns

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 1994
    This paper examines the farm-nonfarm linkages of agricultural growth and the mechanisms by which agricultural development changes the economic welfare of various groups of rural population. Parameter estimates of the Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS) utilizing Philippine data show substantial differences in the demand responses by various population groups to changes in household incomes.
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    Dealing with the soaring price of rice

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2008
    Rice is a critical item in the diet of the poor in the Philippines. This policy note traces the root of the country's rice price situation, analysing the government's response and offering insights and suggestions on what should be done.
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    Addressing policy issues and constraints in agricultural diversification: the potential contribution of the fruits and vegetables subsector

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2008
    The fruits and vegetables subsector is a dynamic component of Philippine agriculture and has the potential of fully contributing to the diversification of the agriculture sector. But similar to the agriculture sector as a whole, its full development is stymied by a set of certain policy issues.
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    Seeds of adaptation: climate change, crop diversification, and the role of women farmers

    2015
    Around the world, women farmers are taking a leading role in implementing strategies aimed at crop variety conservation and diversification, with the goal of strengthening local climate change adaptation capacities. That is the message conveyed in this gender brief by the Center for International Forestry Research.
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    The role of rural women farmers in household food security in Cross River State, Nigeria

    2015
    Women play a key role in ensuring food security, yet in Nigeria rural women farmers have suffered long-term marginalisation in the nation’s affairs. In light of this fact, this study seeks to determine and better understand the roles rural women farmers play as household food producers, as conservators of agrobiodiversity, and as food processors in the Cross River State.

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