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    Seven reasons why the Doha round will not solve the food crisis

    Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, 2008
    Leaders of the world’s trade and financial institutions - the World Trade Organisation (WTO), World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) - are pushing for the completion of the WTO’s Doha Round of trade agreements as a way to solve the current food crisis.
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    Rethinking agricultural input subsidies in poor rural economies

    Future Agricultures Consortium, 2008
    Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in agricultural input subsidies in Africa, together with the emergence of innovative subsidy-delivery systems. This brief argues that these developments, together with new insights into development processes, make it necessary to revisit the conventional wisdom on subsidies.
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    Bilateral and regional free trade initiatives: political and sectoral issues

    International Gender and Trade Network, 2008
    The acceleration of bilateral and regional initiatives pushes further the existing asymmetries between developed and developing countries (DCs). This working paper deems that these initiatives create further constraints on developing countries’ capacity to promote socially and gender-sensitive strategies. The initiatives themselves raise two questions:
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    id21 natural resources highlights 6: Rural livelihoods

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    This bi-annual addition of id21 Natural Resources Highlights looks specifically at rural livelihoods. It contains the following three articles:
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    Rising food prices: drivers and implications for development

    Child Rights Information Network, 2008
    Global food prices have risen 83 per cent over the last three years, with significant impacts for the world's poorest people. This briefing paper focuses on what this important change means for international development. It assesses the drivers of rising prices, discusses the implications of higher prices for developing countries, and surveys implications for development policy.
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    Food sovereignty comes of age: Africa leads efforts to rethink our food system

    UK Food Group, 2007
    The article focuses on the debates and discussions that took place at the Nyéléni 2007 Forum for Food Sovereignty, which was held in Mali, representing organisations across various sectors of food providers from across the globe.
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    Tropical and diversification products: strategic options for developing countries

    International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2008
    This paper aims to provide strategic options for developing countries regarding the liberalisation of tropical products.
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    Commodity booms in sub-Saharan Africa

    African Economic Research Consortium, 2007
    Since 2004, many sub-Saharan African countries have been experiencing a boom in the prices of their primary commodity exports. This paper summarises findings about how to manage commodity booms in oil, solid minerals and agriculture to promote sustainable development and poverty reduction.
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    Grain drain. The hidden cost of U.S. rice subsidies

    CATO Institute, Washington, 2006
    Rice is the world’s most important, most protected and most subsidised food commodity. This study describes the distortions in global rice markets caused by interventions such as the U.S. rice programme. The U.S. government supports domestic rice production through tariffs on imported rice and direct taxpayer subsidies.
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    Regoverning markets programme: innovative practice series

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2007
    Rapid changes are taking place in agri-food markets in middle and low-income countries and small-scale agriculture, which supports the livelihoods of the majority of rural poor, is poorly prepared for these changes.

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