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    Policies for enhanced fisheries productivity and security

    Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2010
    Fisheries contribute at least $10 billion to African economies annually. In countries such as Angola, Egypt and Namibia, fisheries are the vital economic activities. The fisheries industry is also a solution to food security, especially since fish and fish products offer a good source of protein.
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    Seeds without borders

    Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2011
    This policy brief reviews, reflects and discusses the challenges from the perspectives of technological, organisational, institutional, regulatory, and policy frameworks within the variety development-seed production-seed use continuum.
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    Engaging youth in agricultural policy processes

    Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2012
    Saharan Africa has the world’s youngest population and is home to over 200 million young people. Two out of three inhabitants are under 25 years of age.
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    Developing capacities and opportunities for youth engagement in the agricultural value chain and transformation

    Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2011
    Young people have the potential to make significant contributions to agricultural development at various levels, broadly defined here as the agricultural value chain. It is therefore critical to groom emerging professionals and entrepreneurs to contribute meaningfully to agricultural development initiatives.
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    Value of insect pollinators to Himalayan agricultural economies

    International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2012
    This study assesses the economic value of pollination services, especially by insect pollinators, to agriculture in selected areas of the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region in order to highlight the need for initiatives to address the problem.
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    Review of agricultural policies and support instruments in South Africa 1994-2009

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2010
    This review has three objectives. The first is to document the performance of the agricultural sector, with special emphasis on the period 2004-2007. The second is to identify the main agricultural policies and support instruments introduced since 1994, and to assess their impact on the structure and performance of the sector.
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    Potential for a South African aquaculture industry on the Northern Cape’s Namaqualand Coast

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2008
    The question of land-use is likely to remain a stumbling block for potential fish farmers because access to coastal land will continue to pose a formidable obstacle. This is because most coastal land has been zoned, plus the land that suits aquaculture is often also desirable for high-class private dwellings.
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    Rethinking agricultural production collectivities: the case for a group approach to energize agriculture and empower poor farmers

    Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2010
    Grassroots action across the globe demonstrates that collectivities of the poor can improve their well-being in ways that individual approaches usually cannot. It can enhance their incomes, their self-respect, their ability to challenge structural inequalities and oppressive social norms, and their bargaining power in markets, both at home and with the State.
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    Does participatory development legitimise collusion mechanisms? evidence from Karnataka Watershed Development Agency

    Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2011
    The 1990s were an eventful period for decentralized development, including attempts at watershed development in the rural areas of India. Watershed development is an approach to raise agricultural productivity, conserve natural resources, and reduce poverty in the semi-arid tropical regions of the world, including the South Asian region.
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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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