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Status of Plant Variety Protection (PVP) in the SADC region: the need to expedite plant variety protection in SADC countries
Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2007The basic objective of the FANRPAN study into plant variety protection (PVP) systems in five target SADC countries was to establish an overview of the status of legal protection of ownership of plant varieties, as well as experience, benefits and deficiencies in these systems. The study also attempted to quantify impact of adoption or non-adoption of plant variety protection systems.DocumentUsing input vouchers for improving access to agricultural in-puts - who are the winners and losers?
Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2008Emerging from the worst harvest in a decade, the Government of Malawi implemented one of the most ambitious and successful assaults on hunger in the history of the African continent. Through a national input subsidy programme, coinciding with better rainfall conditions, maize production doubled in 2006 and almost tripled in 2007 and 2008.DocumentThe status of agricultural water use, access, and productivity in the Limpopo Basin — opportunities for poverty alleviation
Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2010The Limpopo River Basin is home to 14,000,000 people, at least half of whom live in rural areas. Over ten million South Africans live in the basin - nearly 25% of the national population. The remaining population live in Botswana - one million people, nearly 60% of the national population - Mozambique and Zimbabwe.DocumentA framework for targeting and scaling-out interventions in agricultural systems
Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2014There are real needs and opportunities for well-targeted research and development to improve the livelihoods of farmers while at the same time addressing natural resource constraints. The suitability and adoption of interventions depends on a variety of bio-physical and socioeconomic factors.DocumentCereal market dynamics: the Malian experience from the 1990s to present.
Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 2012This paper assesses the role that cereal markets could play in contributing to poverty reduction in both urban areas through reductions in food prices and rural areas through increases in farm incomes, focusing particularly on the Malian experience.DocumentFarmers’ production and marketing response to rice price increases and fertilizer subsidies in the Office Du Niger
Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 2012This paper aims to inform the debate about farmers’ response to the Rice Initiative (RI) in Mali and rising rice prices, comparing crop production and marketing before and after the price spikes and the introduction of the RI in 2009.DocumentContours of South-South Cooperation and Biotechnology in Asia: strategising for agricultural and industrial growth
Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2011Several Asian economies have adopted biotechnology for harnessing development and efforts are on for integrating biotechnology in the national development plans.DocumentMeeting the challenge of a new pro-poor agricultural paradigm: the role of agricultural policies and programmes
Chronic Poverty Advisory Network, 2012Maximising sustained escapes from poverty and preventing impoverishment will accelerate achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This policy guide is designed to show agricultural and other interested policymakers how their policies and programmes can benefit chronically poor people, help poor people move out of poverty and prevent the impoverishment of others.DocumentThe impact of farmer support programmes on household income and sustainability in smallholder production: A case study of the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu Natal farmers, South Africa.
African Journal of Agricultural Research, 2013A number of Farmer Support Programmes have been implemented in South Africa to reduce the risk of a lack of capacity and a lack of economic and/or financial experience in smallholder farms. Intervention measures have been instituted to these smallholder farmers to assist them to move out of poverty through agricultural production.DocumentAgro-Dealers and the Political Economy of Agricultural Biotechnology Policy in Kenya
Future Agricultures Consortium, 2012Working Paper 33 Political Economy of Cereal Seed Systems in Africa project by Hannington Odame and Elijah MuangeDecember 2011Pages