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Seed aid for seed security: advice for practitioners
Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical, Colombia, 2006Does seed aid needs to be improved? According to the authors of this publication series, seed-based agricultural recovery is more complex than commonly assumed. This series of practice briefs offers advice on how to sustain and strengthen seed systems during disaster response and recovery periods.DocumentUrban agriculture in the Gaza Strip, Palestine
Eldis Document Store, 2006Gaza is characterised by a rapid increase of population and expansion of cities and refugee camps. Large-scale, export-oriented agricultural production has reached its limits of land-use availability and, at the same time, is confronted with the socio-economic demands related to food insecurity and the need for income generation.DocumentThe local politics of land and water: case studies from the Mekong Delta
Groupe de recherche et d'échanges technologiques, 2005This document takes a historical view of the relations between individual and collective actors in local water management in the Mekong Delta in southern Vietnam.DocumentVietnam Red River Delta irrigation management: incomplete recognition of local institutional innovations
Groupe de recherche et d'échanges technologiques, 2001Prepared as part of a study on innovations for irrigation management, this report analyses the history of changes and processes around the de-collectivisation of agriculture in Vietnam in the 1980s.At this time, emerging farming households in the Red River Delta became directly involved in agriculture. New water service requirements arose from de-collectivisation.DocumentHow costly is it for poor farmers to lift themselves out of subsistence?
Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2006Putting to an end two decades of anti-market policies, in the mid-1990s a wave of reforms swept across sub-Saharan Africa. They were intended to improve the effciency of agricultural markets by eliminating failed marketing boards and to reduce the distortions affecting producer prices and incentives.DocumentHandheld GPS equipment for agricultural statistics surveys: experiments on area measurements done during fieldwork for the Uganda Pilot Census of Agriculture, 2003
Statistics Norway, 2005One of the most important factors for production of crop growing, raising livestock or any other farming activity, is land. The pattern of land-use usually varies by season or by different regions of a country. Thus, accurate data on area used for agricultural purposes is an important aspect of agricultural planning.DocumentAgricultural production and soil nutrient mining in africa: implications for resource conservation and policy development
International Fertilizer Development Center, 2006Agricultural development is vital to Africa’s economic growth, food security, and poverty alleviation.DocumentConnecting conservation and the sustainable use of biodiversity with poverty reduction
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006Declines in biodiversity weaken attempts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. But some approaches to reducing poverty are likely to increase the rate at which biodiversity is lost. Biodiversity considerations must be integrated into poverty alleviation strategies.DocumentAfrican perspectives on genetic resources: a handbook on laws, policies, and institutions governing access and benefit sharing
Environmental Law Institute, 2003This book examines how 12 African nations are meeting this challenge of regulating the conservation, use, and exchange of genetic resources.