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  Synthesis report on current and emerging youth policies and initiatives with links to agriculture: the case of Malawi, Mauritius, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania and Zimbabwe

  Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2012

  Sub–Saharan African (SSA) countries have a unique population profile, with 44 percent of its population being under the age of 15, making it the youngest region of the world.
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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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  Integrating the non-commercial and commercial input markets through input vouchers or coupons in Malawi

  Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2007

  Malawi has had a very positive experience with using vouchers or coupons to target agricultural inputs to poor farmers. Building on the lessons learned, the Government should now develop clear policies and guidelines to improve implementation while also assisting smallholder far mers to move to higher levels of sustained profitability. Polict recommnedations:
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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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  Engaging youth in agricultural policy processes

  Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2012

  Saharan Africa has the world’s youngest population and is home to over 200 million young people. Two out of three inhabitants are under 25 years of age.
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  Rethinking agricultural production collectivities: the case for a group approach to energize agriculture and empower poor farmers

  Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2010

  Grassroots action across the globe demonstrates that collectivities of the poor can improve their well-being in ways that individual approaches usually cannot. It can enhance their incomes, their self-respect, their ability to challenge structural inequalities and oppressive social norms, and their bargaining power in markets, both at home and with the State.
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  Does participatory development legitimise collusion mechanisms? evidence from Karnataka Watershed Development Agency

  Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2011

  The 1990s were an eventful period for decentralized development, including attempts at watershed development in the rural areas of India. Watershed development is an approach to raise agricultural productivity, conserve natural resources, and reduce poverty in the semi-arid tropical regions of the world, including the South Asian region.
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  Revisiting the global food crisis: magnitude, causes, impact and policy options

  Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2010

  The brief period of the 21st century has been marked by a drastic intensification of the global food crisis. The phenomenal surge in fuel and food prices followed by the on-going economic crisis have worked in tandem to increasingly deprive the poor across the world, particularly in the Global South, from their fundamental right to food.
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  Demand for price insurance among farmers in India: a choice experiment-based approach

  2014

  Agriculture is an intrinsically risky economic activity. Farmers face a multitude of risks, such as production risks, on account of weather variations, and price risks, associated with falling output prices.

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