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    Trade information brief: organic produce

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2008
    The aim of the Trade Industry Brief (TIB) is to highlight potential export markets to SADC producers who may not have the financial resources to engage in preliminary market research activities. Farmers in SADC countries are particularly well-suited to grow organic products.
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    Agricultural input vouchers in Southern Africa: research findings from Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia

    Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2007
    This policy brief is a synthesis of the findings from research undertaken by the Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN) in Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia to examine the different ways in which relief seed and seed vouchers are programmed. There are two main ways in which vouchers are used in these countries:
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    Status of Plant Variety Protection (PVP) in the SADC region: the need to expedite plant variety protection in SADC countries

    Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2007
    The basic objective of the FANRPAN study into plant variety protection (PVP) systems in five target SADC countries was to establish an overview of the status of legal protection of ownership of plant varieties, as well as experience, benefits and deficiencies in these systems. The study also attempted to quantify impact of adoption or non-adoption of plant variety protection systems.
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    Promoting development of agricultural input markets in Mozambique

    Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2007
    Mozambique needs to adopt more targeted and nuanced policies to encourage the development of effective agricultural input markets. This study makes recommendations to achieve this. Experiences in other countries and limited Mozambique experience suggest that agricultural input vouchers may be an important tool as well.
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    Integrating the non-commercial and commercial input markets through input vouchers: recommendations for Zambia

    Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2007
    Based on both international experiences and research in Zambia, this policy brief recommends that Government develop and implement a policy to use agricultural input vouchers as a means to target support to poor smallholder farmers as well as to integrate the non-commercial and commercial input supply channels into an effective market system.
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    Using input vouchers for improving access to agricultural in-puts - who are the winners and losers?

    Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2008
    Emerging from the worst harvest in a decade, the Government of Malawi implemented one of the most ambitious and successful assaults on hunger in the history of the African continent. Through a national input subsidy programme, coinciding with better rainfall conditions, maize production doubled in 2006 and almost tripled in 2007 and 2008.
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    The status of agricultural water use, access, and productivity in the Limpopo Basin — opportunities for poverty alleviation

    Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2010
    The Limpopo River Basin is home to 14,000,000 people, at least half of whom live in rural areas. Over ten million South Africans live in the basin - nearly 25% of the national population. The remaining population live in Botswana - one million people, nearly 60% of the national population - Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
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    Policies for enhanced livestock productivity and wealth creation in a changing climate

    Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2010
    Agriculture in Africa is changing rapidly. Agriculture and livestock systems are among the most climate sensitive economic sectors. Many of the climate change predictions suggest that African livestock will be damaged by as early as 2020.
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    Policies for enhanced fisheries productivity and security

    Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2010
    Fisheries contribute at least $10 billion to African economies annually. In countries such as Angola, Egypt and Namibia, fisheries are the vital economic activities. The fisheries industry is also a solution to food security, especially since fish and fish products offer a good source of protein.
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    Seeds without borders

    Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2011
    This policy brief reviews, reflects and discusses the challenges from the perspectives of technological, organisational, institutional, regulatory, and policy frameworks within the variety development-seed production-seed use continuum.

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