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    Research briefing: How EMBRAPA catalysed productivity gains in Brazil’s soybean and pulp and paper industries

    International Research Initiative on Brazil and Africa, 2014
    This briefing summarises the main results of an exploratory study on the role of indigenous institutional infrastructures (knowledge related institutions and government policies) in the accumulation of world-leading innovative capabilities (technological catch-up) in latecomer natural resource-related industries.
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    Research briefing: What explains the intensification and diversification of Brazil ́s agricultural production and exports?

    International Research Initiative on Brazil and Africa, 2014
    Since 2000, Brazilian agricultural production and exports have increased enormously. The production of crops rose by over 150%, while exports multiplied eightfold from 1990 to 2012. The authors have undertaken new econometric analysis to understand the factors driving this growth and have found:
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    What explains the intensification and diversification of Brazil’s agricultural production and exports from 1990 to 2012?

    International Research Initiative on Brazil and Africa, 2014
    Agricultural and agro-industrial products typically make up one-third of Brazilian exports, and a wide range of products have been exported. Brazil continues to be the world’s major coffee exporter, but more recently has also been among the top ten exporting countries of products such as soybeans, sugar, pulp, orange juice, and meat.
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    Research briefing: transforming agriculture through productivity growth: lessons from Brazilian agricultural development

    International Research Initiative on Brazil and Africa, 2014
    The position of Brazilian agriculture as one of the breadbaskets of the world is quite remarkable given that just two decades ago this sector was marked instead by backwardness and inefficiencies. Although the details of how this transformation took place are specific to Brazil, the experience holds lessons for other developing countries seeking to make a similar transition.
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    The economics of the Brazilian model of agricultural development

    International Research Initiative on Brazil and Africa, 2014
    The success of Brazilian agriculture in increasing production and productivity in a relatively short period of time has attracted much attention to what policies and programmes have been behind this transformation.
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    Topic guide: ecosystem services

    Evidence on Demand, 2014
    The purpose of this Topic Guide is to assemble a set of learning resources that will contribute to the development of the professional competence of DFID Advisers around the issue of ecosystem services and integrating this issue into project and programme design processes. The specific objectives are to:
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    What is the scope for increased fertilizer use in Kenya?

    Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 2012
    Despite upward trends in fertiliser application rates on maize fields over the last twenty years, there remains a perception in Kenya that application rates are not high enough to reverse the country’s growing national food deficit.
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    Food securities and social conflict

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2014
    Following rising food prices violent ‘food riots’ took place in about 40 countries around the globe in 2007-2008. And at the end of 2010 and the start of 2011, as protests erupted first in Tunisia and then in Algeria, Bahrain, Yemen, Jordan and Egypt, the price of food was widely seen as a significant factor underlying unrest and the train of events of the Arab Spring.
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    The impact of maize hybrids on income, poverty, and inequality among smallholder farmers in Kenya

    Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 2012
    The development and diffusion of hybrid maize seed in Kenya is a widely documented success story. This paper examines particularly the impacts of hybrid maize seed adoption on farmer welfare in Kenya.
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    A strategic agricultural sector and food security diagnostic for Burma

    Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 2013
    Despite its enormous potential, Myanmar’s agriculture has underperformed over the past fifty years. Furthermore, given that two-thirds of the population works primarily in agriculture, low farm productivity translates into high rates of poverty and food insecurity.

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