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  Trade and environment briefings: export restrictions

  International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2012

  Export restrictions are implemented nowadays with the aim of achieving a number of goals, such as food security, industrial development, environmental protection and natural resource conservation. Nevertheless, the current paper brings about a rethinking of the needs and policy objectives behind such measures.The document presents the following findings:
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  How can agriculture and trade lead to livelihoods, food security and development?: evidence from Eastern and Southern Africa

  Consumer Unity and Trust Society, India, 2011

  Agriculture and trade can be engines for inclusive growth and development in African countries. This monograph presents the main findings of country research studies on trade and agriculture issues in Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.
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  Trade policy responses to food price volatility in poor net food-importing countries

  International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2012

  This paper provides an evidence-based assessment of the trade-related challenges that poor net-food-importing countries have faced since Marrakesh, and the useful measures that can be done.
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  Cassava commercialization in Mozambique

  AgEcon Search, 2011

  Cassava has historically served as Mozambique’s key food security crop. This paper examines the commercial dynamics in Mozambique’s cassava value chain as well as the food security implications of growing cassava commercialisation.Findings can be summarised as follows:
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  Liberalizing agricultural trade and developing countries

  Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2002

  Agriculture has been a special case in which trade liberalisation has not progressed since a considerable period, while subsidisation and protection of agriculture remain the norm in developed countries. This paper reflects the outcome of a conference dedicated for liberalising agricultural trade and developmental concerns of low-income economies.
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  Trade policy, trade and food security in the Caribbean: structural issues, multilateral negotiations and competitiveness

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2007

  There is considerable controversy over the impacts of trade policy and trade on food security. This book provides an overview of the interface between trade, trade policy and food security in the Caribbean. The publication also focuses on the Caribbean region as a component of the Small and Vulnerable Economies (SVEs) group.
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  A review of agricultural policies: case study of Jamaica

  Caribbean Community Secretariat, 2005

  Although facing declining economic fortunes, the agricultural sector in Jamaica continues to play a pivotal role with respect to food security and rural livelihoods. This report provides an analytical review of the major policy provisions for the agricultural sector in Jamaica. The document highlights that:
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  The role and value of local knowledge in Jamaican agriculture: adaptation and change in small-scale farming

  2007

  In Jamaica, traditional cropping systems based on local informal knowledge have been practiced since the days of slavery and play a vital role in meeting food security. This paper discusses some conceptual and empirical issues related to the application of local knowledge among small scale food farmers in central Jamaica.
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  Trade policy and food security: the implications of the WTO’s agreement on agriculture for Caribbean small vulnerable economies (SVEs)

  United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2011

  Agriculture is instrumental in the socio-economic development of Caribbean small, vulnerable economies (SVEs). This paper focuses on the impact of WTO’s Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) on food security in Caribbean SVEs.
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  Engendering agricultural research, development, and extension

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2011

  Gender issues in agriculture are prominent in today’s development agenda. This monograph makes a case for gender equity in the agricultural research, development, and extension (R.D&E) system.

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