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    Chinese agricultural investment in Africa: motives, actors and modalities

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2015
    The agricultural link between China and Africa can be traced back to the late 1950s when China started to provide agricultural aid to Africa. Agricultural aid has remained an integral part of Chinese African aid and constitutes a significant component of China’s contemporary, more diversified agricultural engagement with the continent.
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    Realising the promise of agriculture for Africa’s transformation

    Small Island Economies - CTA Brussels, 2014
    The transformation of the African agri-business sector is a key challenge to achieve food security and economic development. A differentiated approach to partnerships, based on the development of competitive local private sectors, is essential to boosting agricultural development in Africa.
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    Food, Markets and Nutrition: Maximizing the Impacts of Private Sector Engagement in Tanzania

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015
    This report summarizes the findings of a workshop for representatives of Tanzanian government, development partners, civil society and private sector organisations, hosted by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) on 30 March 2015.
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    Food price spikes and poor, small economies: What role for trade policies?

    2015
    Upward spikes in international food prices lead some food-surplus countries to raise export barriers and some food-deficit countries to lower their import restrictions on staple foods – and conversely when prices slump. When many countries so respond, their actions in aggregate exacerbate the international price spike, making adjustment even more difficult for other countries.
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    Priests, technicians and traders? The discursive politics of Brazil’s agricultural cooperation in Mozambique

    Future Agricultures Consortium, 2015
    Questions such as whose interests drive Brazil into Africa, what development models are carried along and what is in them for African countries have been guiding research and debates about Brazil’s cooperation in Africa. This paper contributes to this emerging body of work by looking at the specific case of agricultural cooperation.
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    The Role of Mineral Fertilizers in Transforming Philippine Agriculture

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2014
    Fertilizer policy in the country has evolved from pervasive interventionism in the 1970s to today`s market-oriented regime. Government has abandoned price policies and subsidies, focusing rather on standard setting, quality regulation, and training.
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    Specialisation or diversification? Divergent perspectives on rice farming in three large dam-irrigated areas in the Sahel

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2014
    This report is based on the main lessons and recommendations from three case studies analysing the strategies, aspirations and constraints of the various types of farmers living around the dams of Bagré (Burkina Faso), Sélingué (Mali) and Niandouba/Confluent (Senegal).
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    "Why wait until the next food crisis?" Improving food reserves strategies in East Africa

    Agency for Co-operation and Research in Development, 2014
    ACORD's research on the importance of African countries holding food reserves for promoting food security and price stability. This report analyses the food reserves policies of three countries in East Africa – Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda – showing how these can, indeed must, be improved to address hunger. 
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    Atlas of African agriculture research & development

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2014
    This publication compares and contrasts where the challenges to and opportunities for growth in productivity are located, with the aim of providing an understanding of the variables that affect agricultural productivity. The work of agricultural researchers and development workers in Africa has the potent
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    Scaling up index insurance for smallholder farmers: Recent evidence and insights

    Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2015
    This report explores evidence and insights from five case studies that have made significant recent progress in addressing the challenge of insuring poor smallholder farmers and pastoralists in the developing world. In India, national index insurance programmes have reached over 30 million farmers through a mandatory link with agricultural credit and strong government support.

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