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    Agriculture and HIV/AIDS

    HIV and Development in Asia and the Pacific, UNDP, 2002
    This paper brings together work done by FAO, focussing on identifying the impacts of the HIV epidemic. It argues that the agricultural sector should concentrate on areas in which it has a comparative advantage, as opposed to carrying out health work. It identifies the key points of intervention at the farming level and farm-household system.
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    Biodiversity rights legislation

    GRAIN, 2002
    Biodiversity Rights Legislation (BRL) is a collection of emerging laws that directly affect people's control over agricultural biodiversity in developing countries. It compiles those legislative texts that define rights in relation to genetic resources or to the knowledge associated with those materials.
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    Agriculture negotiations: the issues, and where we are now

    World Trade Organization, 2002
    A "backgrounder" on agriculture negotiations at the WTO updated to cover the end of phase 2 of the ongoing negotiations and future tasks under the Doha mandate.The report gives details of proposals recieved during phases 1 and 2 and the various country groupings and alliances formed during this process. It also contains an issue based analysis of progress made and future objectives.
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    Food for all: can hunger be halved

    Panos Institute, London, 2001
    Report providing an introductory overview of issues in light of the FAO's gloomy predictions regarding the global target to halve poverty by 2015. With case studies throughout the paper looks at the connection between hunger and poverty and the policies that are supposed to reduce both.
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    Re-examining the 'more people less erosion' hypothesis: special case of wider trend?

    Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2000
    Recent research into natural resource rehabilitation based on in-depth case studies has highlighted situations where population growth and agricultural intensification have been accompanied by improved rather than deteriorating soil and water resources.
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    Contract farming: partnerships for growth

    Agricultural Marketing, FAO, 2001
    The purpose of this guide is to provide advice to management of existing contract farming companies on how to improve their operationscompanies that are considering starting such ventures on the preconditions and management actions necessary for success, and government officials seeking to promote new contract farming operations or monitor existing operations.It describes i
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    An international guide to organizations generating information on conflicts over natural resources

    Society for International Development, 2001
    Guide finding information on the web about conflicts over natural resources and related matters. More than 90 organizations have being identified and classified according to main sectors of activities, (land, forests, water, fisheries) and geographical scope, etc.
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    Intellectual property rights: ultimate control of agricultural R&D in Asia

    Genetic Engineering & Intellectual Property Rights Resource Center, 2001
    Discusses the pressure on Asian countries to adopt plant variety protection (PVP) systems based on Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants UPOV.
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    Verdict on world's most precious nature reserves: overpopulated, overfarmed and under threat

    The Independent and Independent on Sunday, 2001
    Details new report 'Common Ground, Common Future' aiming to promote 'ecoagriculture'; the unity of farming and conservation. The recommendations of the report are simple: if farmers can double or even treble food production on land they already use, they will have less need to encroach on pristine areas.
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    Adoption potential of rotational hedgerow intercropping in the humid lowlands of Cameroon

    Agricultural Research and Extension Network, 2000
    Reports on and on-farm evaluation of hedgerow intercropping by the IRA/ ICRAF Programme in the lowlands of Cameroon, which has been in progress since 1988. Throughout the years the biophysical performance of the system was found to be inferior under farmer management on farm to that achieved on station. At the same time, farmers' interest in the technology was far below the expectations.

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