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Global financial and food crisis: a Malysian perspective
Institute of Strategic and International Studies, Malaysia, 2009High food prices from 2007 through mid-2008 spawned serious implications for food security, macroeconomic stability and even political stability in many countries, especially developing ones.DocumentAgriculture, food security, and poverty in China
International Food Policy Research Institute, 2009This report outlines the growth success registered by China over the past decades. It states that China’s rapid economic growth would not have been possible without successful growth in the agricultural sector.DocumentIndia and the agreement on agriculture: civil society and citizens' engagement
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2007This paper explores civil society advocacy on the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) and how it influences the trade policy process and facilitates citizen engagement in the Indian context.DocumentA fair farm bill for the world
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, 2007The U.S. Farm Bill has had a dramatic impact on agricultural economies across the globe. This paper reflects on ways to improve U.S. farm policy in support of small farmers, rural development and livelihoods around the world. Specifically, it looks at how the Farm Bill directly affects trade, subsidies, dumping, food aid, market concentration and public health.DocumentPolicy space for Mexican maize: protecting agro-biodiversity by promoting rural livelihoods
Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University, 2007This policy analysis examines the room for alternative policies for agricultural provisions in Mexico under existing economic and environmental agreements, including North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).DocumentPricing farmers out of cotton: the costs of World Bank reforms in Mali
Oxfam, 2007This paper argues that recent changes to the cotton price-setting mechanism in Mali promoted by the World Bank have wider repercussions for the Malian economy and are likely to jeopardise the existing poverty-reduction strategy. Falling prices are increasing poverty in cotton-growing areas and worsening food insecurity and indebtedness.DocumentDoha: a dangerous numbers game
Focus on the Global South, 2007With all the attention on reducing tariffs for developing countries, what has happened to the development goals of the Doha Round?DocumentA survey of findings on the poverty impacts of agricultural trade liberalization
Agricultural and Development Economics Division, FAO, 2006The purpose of this survey is to review the available empirical evidence on the impacts of agricultural trade liberalisation on poverty.OrganisationAfrican Institute for Applied Economics, Nigeria (AIAE)
The African Institute for Applied Economics (AIAE) conducts economic policy research and facilitates policy advocacy, training and networking, and consulting services.Pages
