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    The relationships of trade, economic growth, and market power: the case of rice exporting

    AgEcon Search, 2008
    This paper aims to analyse the relationship between rice exports and economic growth for the world’s top four exporting countries (Thailand, Vietnam, India, and the United States). It also seeks to determine to what extent economic growth impacts a country’s rice exports as well as to what extent foreign direct investment (FDI) impacts a country’s ability to export rice.
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    Import/export parity price analysis

    Famine Early Warning Systems Network, 2008
    This manual focuses on the role parity prices play in food security and early warning analysis. Parity prices are used to compare prices of a commodity in two different locations, when the two locations are in different countries.
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    Determinants and implications of the growing scale of livestock farms in four fast-growing developing countries

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2008
    Livestock are among the few commodities that smallholder farmers widely produce that are growing rapidly in demand, and thus the interest for poverty alleviation is strong.
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    Gender and natural resource management: livelihoods, mobility and interventions

    International Development Research Centre, 2008
    This book examines the gender dimensions of natural resource exploitation and management, with a focus on Asia. It explores the uneasy negotiations between theory, policy, and practice that are often evident within the realm of gender, environment, and natural resource management.
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    Organic certification schemes: managerial skills and associated costs

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2007
    Certification is critical in organic markets as it enables organic producers to access new export and domestic market opportunities and premium prices due to the fact that organic quality adds value to products. Whilst in developed countries, economic incentives and enabling policies and regulations have
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    Contract farming in the world’s poultry industry

    GRAIN, 2008
    This paper examines contract farming in the poultry sectors of Brazil and Thailand. It explores the benefits and problems that small farmers face as a result of large company control over the poultry industry. The authors also discuss the environmental impact of increased meat production.
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    The research cooperation for livestock based sustainable farming systems in the Lower Mekong Basin

    Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2007
    For the past four years, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam have cooperated within animal production research in a regional network, the Research Cooperation for Livestock Based Sustainable Farming Systems in the Lower Mekong Basin (MEKARN). This document presents an evaluation of the effectiveness of (MEKARN).
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    Ageing rural populations and farm structure in Thailand

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Rapid reductions in both mortality and fertility rates are causing a significant population ageing in many developing countries. In Thailand, this demographic change, combined with the tendency of young people to seek non-agricultural employment, has resulted in rapid ageing of the agricultural work force.
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    Linking farmers to markets

    Agricultural Support Systems Division, FAO, 2006
    This website/page presents a selection of brief case studies of ways in which small-scale farmers in developing countries have linked with markets, through their own efforts and with assistance from others.
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    Special evaluation study on small-scale freshwater rural aquaculture development for poverty reduction

    Operations Evaluation Department, Asian Development Bank, 2004
    Linking aquaculture development approaches to viable livelihood opportunities for the rural poor remains a challenge. The poor face many constraints to participation in aquaculture, primarily due to a lack of access to capital and resources, vulnerability, and aversion to risks.

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