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    Sahel Weather and Crop Situation

    Global Information and Early Warning System, FAO, 1999
    Issued every month throughout the growing season, which lasts from June to October, by the FAO Global Information and Early Warning System on food and agriculture. The report describes weather conditions, pest infestations and crop prospects in this drought-prone zone.
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    Food supply situation and crop prospects in sub-Saharan Africa

    Global Information and Early Warning System, FAO, 1999
    Quarterly report of the Global Information and Early Warning System (GIEWS). It provides an assessment of the current food supply situation in sub-Saharan Africa, highlights the major food emergencies in the region and draws attention to the countries where the need for donor assistance is most urgent.
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    Foodcrops and Shortages

    Global Information and Early Warning System, FAO, 1999
    Issued 6 times a year. Readers are provided with country-by-country summaries of the most recent information on the production, trade, stocks and consumption of food commodities, as well as food aid requirements, pledges and actual deliveries, when appropriate. The report contains a synthesis of the main crop and food supply developments in each sub-region of the world.
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    Food Outlook

    Global Information and Early Warning System, FAO, 1999
    Published 6 times a year, “Food Outlook” provides a global perspective on the production, stocks and trade of cereals and other basic food commodities, through an analysis of trends and prospects. Food Outlook contains analysis and statistical information on developments in the world cereal markets, export prices and ocean freight rates.
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    Gender and Participation in Agricultural Development Planning

    Gender and Development, FAO Sustainable Dimensions, 1999
    Based on documentation produced for a "Workshop on Gender and Participation in Agricultural Planning: Harvesting Best Practices", held in Rome on 8 -12 December, 1997.
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    The impact of HIV/AIDS on farming households in the Monze District of Zambia

    Centre for Development Studies, Bath University, 1997
    This paper focuses on how HIV/AIDS undermines household responsiveness to cope with crises, such as new agricultural policy reforms, HIV/AIDS, years of drought, and death of cattle. It uses a collection of 32 household case-studies. It investigates how caring for a chronically ill family member impinges on household production and alters labour allocation between genders and generations.
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    Economic and social components of migration in two regions of Southern Province, Zambia

    Centre for Development Studies, Bath University, 1997
    Paper addresses the migration process in the Zambia's Southern Province. Until recently when droughts and cattle diseases have begun to plague the area, Southern Province was known for its ideal farming conditions.
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    Biopiracy, TRIPS and the Patenting of Asia's Rice Bowl: A collective NGO situationer on IPRs on rice

    GRAIN, 1998
    Nearly all Asian countries are committed to the WTO TRIPs treaty. This means that by the year 2000, Asian governments have to make intellectual property titles on seeds completely legal. This will favor transnational corporations who want to control agriculture and the world's food system through genetic engineering.
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    Signposts To Sui Generis Rights: Resource materials from the international seminar on sui generis rights

    GRAIN, 1997
    TRIPS requires developing countries to enact intellectual property rights (IPR) legislation for plant varieties by the year 2000, while least-developed countries have until 2005. This can be in the form of classic industrial patent systems or some "effective sui generis system".
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    Ten reasons not to join UPOV [Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants]

    GRAIN, 1998
    Developing countries are currently facing intense pressure to institute intellectual property rights (IPRs) for plant varieties. Despite the fact that the brief history of IPRs over plants and biological resources has undermined local biodiversity in the North and precipitated corporate monopolies over the food system, Southern countries are being forced to travel the same path.

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