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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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  Leveraging the private sector to promote agriculture and natural resource-based livelihoods

  Evidence on Demand, 2014

  For the benefit of Livelihoods Advisers in DFID, this Topic Guide sets out the issues arising when stimulating private investment and initiative to the benefit of small-scale and informal farmers, fishers and herders. Four sets of questions are addressed:
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  End market analysis for meat / live animals, leather and leather products, dairy products value chains: expanding livestock markets for the small-holder producers

  Agricultural Growth Program, 2013

  Ethiopians have been engaged in livestock production and trade for centuries and much of the business of livestock production is not that much different today than what it has been over the years.
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  The Geography of food: reconnecting with origin in the food system

  Small Island Economies - CTA Brussels, 2013

  Origin-linked products described by geographical indications (GIs) are those that have specific quality attributes or reputation linked to the places where they are produced.
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  Fish-farming: the new driver of the blue economy

  Small Island Economies - CTA Brussels, 2013

  Fish farms are expected to produce nearly two-thirds of global food fish supply by 2030, and the rise in seafood demand gives countries the opportunity to expand and improve responsible fish and shellfish farming practices, with increased focus on offshore mariculture
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  Markets for the Poor (M4P) Training Day: overview

  Evidence on Demand, 2014

  This Consultancy Report provides an overview of the Markets for the Poor (M4P) training day for the DFID Livelihoods cadre, which took place in Whitehall, London on 10th October 2013.
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  The quest for affordable food: prospects in the Doha Round for net food-importing developing countries

  South African Institute of International Affairs, 2010

  In the past few years, a sharp rise in the price of food commodities has caused a critical global food crisis, increasing the food bill of consumers in a way that deeply affects the food security of low-income societies, whose members spend more than half of their household incomes on food purchases.

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