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  India’s national agricultural policy: a critique

  Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2004

  The National Agricultural Policy (NAP) document released by the Government of Indian in 2000 aimed to attain an agricultural output growth rate in excess of 4 percent per annum, based on efficient use of resources, and sought to achieve this growth in a sustainable and equitable manner.This paper argues that (by 2004) no serious action had been initiated on most of the NAP’s proposals, and blam
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  Climate change in Africa: impacts, adaptation and vulnerability

  United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2001

  Africa is highly vulnerable to the various manifestations of climate change. This paper focuses on a number of variables that will be affected by climate change, including, water resources, food security, ecosystems, natural resources, human health, agriculture and overall vulnerability.
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  Trends and prospects for poverty reduction in rural India: context and options

  Overseas Development Institute, 2003

  This paper lays out the macroeconomic and structural contexts for poverty reduction in India and discusses opportunities and constraints in relation to public investment and service provision that have a bearing on rural livelihoods.
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  Social inclusion: a pre-requisite for equitable and sustainable natural resource management: two experiences in Mali

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2003

  This paper calls for the involvement of all stakeholders in managing of common property resources. The authors suggest that degradation of natural resources is primarily due to the conflict of interest between different stakeholder and base their argument on experiences of programme support to decentralised natural resource management in Mali.
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  Baseline study on the problem of obsolete pesticide stocks

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2001

  Large stockpiles of obsolete pesticides have been accumulated in virtually all developing countries throughout the last four decades. This baseline study provides an overview of the current global situation in relation to obsolete pesticides and reviews the perspective of the various organisations with an interest in the issue.
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  Inherent conditions leading to economic vulnerability of small states of the pacific region and appropriate policy measures to strengthen their economic resilience for sustainable development, with particular emphasis on Papua New Guinea

  Papua New Guinea Institute of National Affairs, 2004

  Papua New Guinea’s (PNG) Human Development Indicators are among the worst in the world and have been declining; it has had three Stuctural Adjustment Programmes between 1990 and 1997.
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  Rural poverty, property rights and environmental resource management in Kenya

  International Centre for Theoretical Physics - Ecological and Environmental Economics Programme, 2004

  This study investigates the relationship between rural poverty, property rights, and environmental resource management in a semi-arid region of Kenya using analysis of survey data. It argues that reduced environmental degradation will increase agricultural productivity, and which will then translate into lower levels of poverty as incomes and consumption expenditures rise.
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  Investing in water for food, ecosystems and livelihoods: blue paper

  2004

  This paper highlights the difficult choices that must be made as mounting pressure from the world’s growing population for more food could lead to greater water consumption and increasing environmental degradation. Globally, agriculture uses between 70 to 90% of developed water supplies and the livelihoods of 70% of the world’s poor depend largely on farming.
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  Ethical trade in African horticulture: gender, rights and participation

  Ethical Trade and Natural Resources Programme, NRI, 2004

  Codes of conduct for ethical trade have been criticised for failing to consider gender issues or extend to temporary workers. In response, this paper explores ways to develop codes that are effective and inclusive of all workers, including female and temporary workers.
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  Bilateral investment agreements: Agents of new global standards for the protection of intellectual property rights?

  GRAIN, 2004

  Developing countries have entered into a large number of bilateral investment treaties (BITs) as well as free trade agreements (FTAs) that include explicit obligations for the protection of intellectual property rights as "investments".

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