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    2013 Global Food Policy Report

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2014
    This report aims to provide insight into the major developments in food policy during 2013 and their implications for future food and nutrition security. It discusses the post-2015 development agenda, the year’s food policy successes and setbacks, and suggests how to advance policies that will improve the food situation for people living in poverty.
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    Modernizing Extension and Advisory Services (MEAS)

    MEAS is a Center of Excellence that seeks to promote and support endeavors to change extension systems in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and Central America to effectively serve the fo
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    A critical assessment of the G-20 food security agenda

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2013
    As part of the Global Economic Governance project undertaken by the South African Institute of International Affairs in collaboration with the International Development Law Unit at the University of Pretoria, a critical assessment was recently undertaken to evaluate how effectively Africa’s interests and concerns are directly and indirectly addressed in the Group of Twenty (G-20) processe
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    The G20 development agenda: insights from Mexico

    Oxfam Mexico, 2012
    When Mexico took over the G20 Presidency in December 2011,  expectations were raised for a transcendent summit to the world’s poor. President Felipe Calderon presented a somewhat assertive development agenda that prioritised three key elements: infrastructure, food security and green growth.
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    Strategy for Sustainable Agriculture

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2011
    The food price crisis of the last decade provided an impetus to the discussions on sustainable development of agriculture. What has since emerged is the belief that agricultural policies need to be revamped to meet the growing demands for food and fibre in most countries.
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    G-20 food security in Africa: measures to strengthen the G-20 agenda

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2013
    Africa is the continent where most of the world’s food insecure people live. Yet, when South Africa became the first African country to join the G-20, there were hopes that this might lead to stronger representation of Africa’s interests on an influential global platform.
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    The Southern African sugar sector

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2013
    The sugar industry has the potential to play a key developmental role in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region. The current paper illustrates that the sugar industry in Southern Africa is extensive, making up slightly more than half of the continent’s sugar production.
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    Food security in a world of natural resource scarcity: The role of agricultural technologies

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2014
    This book is aimed at policymakers in ministries of agriculture and national agricultural research institutes, as well as multilateral development banks and the private sector and provides guidance on various technology strategies and which to pursue as competition grows for land, water, and energy across productive sectors and even increasingly across borders.
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    Climate change and adaptation in fisheries and aquaculture: Compilation of initial examples

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2014
    This document contains a selection of current and recent climate change adaptation activities and measures in the fisheries and aquaculture sector. Some of the highlighted activities are specifically targeted at addressing climate change impacts in fisheries or aquaculture, and others address related areas (e.g.
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    Agricultural productivity seminar notes

    Evidence on Demand, 2013
    As these seminar notes argue, agriculture is once again high on the development agenda, There are huge opportunities but also challenges in agriculture; and that while increased productivity is the ultimate goal – the nuances of what is meant by productivity in relation to poverty reduction and food security must be teased out.

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