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  Putting rice on the table: rice policy, the WTO, and food security

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2014

  The Philippines has been and shall continue to be a major rice importer. Rice is the country’s major staple, accounting for nearly half of the calorie intake of the population. It is an important source of livelihood for millions of small farmers. Food security is conventionally equated with self-sufficiency in rice.
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  Rice self-sufficiency: is it feasible?

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2012

  Rice self-sufficiency has long captivated public imagination in the Philippines. This Policy Note assesses whether the rice self-sufficiency target can be attained and sustained at reasonable cost. The assessment is based on two approaches: first is comparison with past trends; second is comparison with projections of demand and supply.
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  Policy coordination for food security: the case of the ASEAN Rice Trade Forum

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2012

  Rice is the most important staple crop in Asia. Rice is regarded not merely as a source of food and livelihood, but also a political commodity and barometer of state legitimacy. Intervention in rice markets is therefore the status quo.
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  Impact of agricultural market information systems activities on market performance in Mozambique: Mozambique country report

  Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 2012

  The objective of this paper is to analyse the impact of agricultural market information systems (MIS) activities on market performance in Mozambique.
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  Research briefing: How EMBRAPA catalysed productivity gains in Brazil’s soybean and pulp and paper industries

  International Research Initiative on Brazil and Africa, 2014

  This briefing summarises the main results of an exploratory study on the role of indigenous institutional infrastructures (knowledge related institutions and government policies) in the accumulation of world-leading innovative capabilities (technological catch-up) in latecomer natural resource-related industries.
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  Research briefing: What explains the intensification and diversification of Brazil ́s agricultural production and exports?

  International Research Initiative on Brazil and Africa, 2014

  Since 2000, Brazilian agricultural production and exports have increased enormously. The production of crops rose by over 150%, while exports multiplied eightfold from 1990 to 2012. The authors have undertaken new econometric analysis to understand the factors driving this growth and have found:
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  What explains the intensification and diversification of Brazil’s agricultural production and exports from 1990 to 2012?

  International Research Initiative on Brazil and Africa, 2014

  Agricultural and agro-industrial products typically make up one-third of Brazilian exports, and a wide range of products have been exported. Brazil continues to be the world’s major coffee exporter, but more recently has also been among the top ten exporting countries of products such as soybeans, sugar, pulp, orange juice, and meat.
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  Cereal market dynamics: the Malian experience from the 1990s to present.

  Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 2012

  This paper assesses the role that cereal markets could play in contributing to poverty reduction in both urban areas through reductions in food prices and rural areas through increases in farm incomes, focusing particularly on the Malian experience.
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  Farmers’ production and marketing response to rice price increases and fertilizer subsidies in the Office Du Niger

  Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 2012

  This paper aims to inform the debate about farmers’ response to the Rice Initiative (RI) in Mali and rising rice prices, comparing crop production and marketing before and after the price spikes and the introduction of the RI in 2009.
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  End market analysis for meat / live animals, leather and leather products, dairy products value chains: expanding livestock markets for the small-holder producers

  Agricultural Growth Program, 2013

  Ethiopians have been engaged in livestock production and trade for centuries and much of the business of livestock production is not that much different today than what it has been over the years.

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