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    Human resources in agricultural and rural development

    Sustainable Development Department, FAO SD Dimensions, 2001
    Papers on several main developments and issues that either persist or are emerging in the area of human resources for agricultural and rural development.
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    Trees outside forests: an essential tool for desertification control in the Sahel

    Unasylva, FAO, 2000
    This article focuses on lessons about desertification and the potential of trees as part of the solution, drawn from a specific rural situation in the Sahel, that of Keita, Tahoua Department, the Niger.
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    The environmental and social impacts of economic liberalization on corn production in Mexico

    Oxfam, 2001
    Examines Mexico’s effort to liberalise and “modernise” its agricultural sector, and in particular its domestic production of corn.Conclusions:liberalisation has failed to achieve the environmental and social improvements it promised.
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    Global farming systems study: challenges and priorities to 2030

    Rural Development Strategy Team, World Bank, 2001
    For more than a decade, the proportion of internationally supported public investment directed at agriculture and the rural sector in developing countries has been declining. Moreover, this is occuring at a time in which the process of globalisation is changing patters of trade and investment, placing agricultural producers and communities under tremendous pressure to adapt in order to survive.
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    Intellectual property protection: who needs it?

    Genetic Engineering & Intellectual Property Rights Resource Center, 2001
    Addresses some of the arguments against IPR and indicates how strengthening intellectual property rights will enable farmers throughout the world to receive the latest developments in crop production.Conclusions:enforceable and strong IPRs are essential to encourage the transfer of the latest technologies to developing countries, and for stimulating research in these same new tec
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    Integrating participatory research methods in a public agricultural research organisation: a partially successful experience in Morocco

    Agricultural Research and Extension Network, 2001
    Reports on a project of institutional capacity development for participatory research, undertaken by the INRA in Morocco.
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    The socio-political impact of biotechnology in developing countries

    Agricultural Biotechnology Support Project, MSU, 2001
    Assesses the socio-political ramifications of agricultural biotechnology and recombinant genetics in relation to increased food security in developing countriesConcludes that sustainable development and sustainable food security will not be achievable without better governance and a new dimension of solidarity between the rich and the poor of this world, but also not without new technologies su
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    State reforms and the decentralization of the agricultural and rural public sector: lessons from the Latin American experience

    Sustainable Development Department, FAO SD Dimensions, 2001
    Paper asserts that strengthening the institutional capacities of local governments is important for: 1) economic reasons (e.g. productive and allocative efficiency), 2) equity reasons (territorial and social equity); and 3) political reasons (e.g. elected officers' accountability to citizens, citizens' participation in decision- making, and democratisation of decision-making).
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    Global science, global policy: local to global policy processes for soils management in Africa

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2000
    The creation and selling of ideas of global environmental crisis has been a core characteristic of the post-Rio decade. Global science and global policymaking processes are central to these crises. However, framings of global environmental problems – the knowledge claims and interests that underpin them, and the plans that flow from them – are often accepted without critical examination.
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    Opportunities and constraints of organic agriculture: a socio-ecological analysis

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2000
    This article explores the opportunities and constraints associated with sustainable, organic agriculture. The focus of its investigation lies in exploring the social and institutional dimensions of such agricultural techniques.Protecting soils and enhancing their fertility (land stewardship) implies ensuring productive capacity for future generations.

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