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Searching with a thematic focus on Agriculture and food, Trade Policy in India

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  Scoping Study: India’s global resource footprint in Food, Energy and Water (FEW): Final report

  Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2014

  Resources are needed to power India‘s economic growth, both from domestic and external sources. One of the serious challenges in India is relating to adequate food production and the key inputs that are required to produce it, namely energy and water.
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  South-south technology transfer low carbon building technologies: inception report

  Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2014

  This high rate of urbanisation puts tremendous pressure on the entire building material sector. With constraints in supply of material both the quality of material (brick) and the application (house) has degrade d to an alarming extent resulting in poor quality and increasing construction costs. Most often it has reached beyond the means of common beneficiaries.
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  Incorporating International Best Practices in the Preparation Of Agricultural Outlook and Situation Analysis Reports for India - Phase II: FAO/UNDP

  Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2013

  The need for monitoring and analysis of emerging food scenarios is important for India both because of significant dependence of output on the monsoon rains (the kharif season) and the fact that globally India is one of the major consumers of food crops influencing markets.
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  Knowledge Partnership Programme (KPP)

  The Knowledge Partnership Programme (KPP) supported by Government of UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) and managed by IPE Global Limited has now ended.   
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  Revisiting the global food crisis: magnitude, causes, impact and policy options

  Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2010

  The brief period of the 21st century has been marked by a drastic intensification of the global food crisis. The phenomenal surge in fuel and food prices followed by the on-going economic crisis have worked in tandem to increasingly deprive the poor across the world, particularly in the Global South, from their fundamental right to food.
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  Promoting conservation in India by greening coffee

  Norwegian Institute for International Affairs, 2014

  The Indian coffee sector is at an important transition point, increasingly stuck in the middle between quality and value segments of the market. A potential niche for India is in the development of eco-friendly (green) coffees, leveraging the natural environment and biodiversity present in many regions.
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  Understanding Wage Issues in the Tea Industry

  Oxfam, 2013

  Wage levels are an issue of concern across the globe as individuals, companies and governments wrestle with how wages paid to workers relate to costs of living, corporate and national competitiveness, profitability and broader macroeconomic trends and challenges.
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  Agricultural Trade between Bangladesh and India: An Analysis of Trends, Trading Patterns and Determinants

  2012

  The paper analyses the indices of trends and patterns of India-Bangladesh bilateral agriculture trade, and estimates the short and long-run elasticities of the determinants of this trade by using descriptive statistics and econometric estimations.
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  Rising powers, reforming challenges: negotiating agriculture in the WTO Doha Round from a Brazilian perspective

  2011

  This article examines the history of the WTO Doha Round agriculture negotiations from 2001 to 2011 in light of the shifting global balance of economic power. It shows that the rise of China, Brazil and India, among other developing countries, had an impact on the negotiations and affected the negotiating structure, processes and decision-making.
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  Volatility in agriculture commodity prices in India: impact and macroeconomic and sector-specific policy responses

  AgEcon Search, 2012

  Globalisation and trade liberalisation have exposed agricultural sector of many developing countries to sudden disturbances, particularly due to volatility in global commodity prices and surge in imports. This paper evaluates the sensitivity of Indian wheat production to these factors, and explores policy options that may neutralise their adverse effects, and maintain price stability.

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