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Structural change and market opening in agriculture: Turkey towards EU accession
Economic Research Center, Middle East Technical University, Turkey, 2004The purpose of this study is to identify major elements in the pre-accession period through a description of the agricultural environment in Turkey, together with the possible effects of accession on agriculture.DocumentLooking ahead: long-term prospects for Africa’s agricultural development and food security
2020 Vision for Food, Agriculture and the Environment, International Food Policy Research Institute, 2005This paper explores and evaluates the consequences of various policies related to food security in Africa based on projections for the year 2025, focusing on agricultural production. Using computer models, the authors show how three different policy scenarios are likely to affect the supply of, demand for, and trade of crops.DocumentBuilding an international legal framework on animal genetic resources: can it help the drylands and food-insecure countries?
Forum Umwelt & Entwicklung [German NGO Forum on Environment & Development], 2005This article discusses the case for an international treaty on animal genetic resources, confirming that one-third of the world’s livestock breeds are now endangered.DocumentThe impact of research led agricultural productivity growth on poverty reduction in Africa, Asia and Latin America
Management Centre, Kings College London, 2002This paper quantifies the impact of agricultural productivity growth on the incidence of poverty in the least developed countries, measured by the percentage of the population living on less than $1 per day.DocumentNew directions for African agriculture
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005Despite the fact that most of Africa’s poor are rural, and rely largely on agriculture for their livelihoods, African agriculture is slow-growing or stagnating, held back by low yields, poor infrastructure, environmental change, HIV and AIDS and civil conflict. However, this sweeping picture hides some important success stories.DocumentThe impact of trade liberalization on agricultural biological diversity: domestic support measures and their effects on agricultural biological diversity
Convention on Biological Diversity, 2005This study provides an in-depth analysis of the potential implications for biodiversity of a reduction in and reform of agricultural support activities.DocumentImperfect labour mobility, urban unemployment and agricultural trade reform in Chile
Banco Central de Chile / Central Bank of Chile, 2005Agricultural trade policy reform raises a number of concerns. First, the presence of significant rural-urban income divergence resulting in rural-urban migration caused faster urban population growth and the emergence of high levels of urban unemployment.DocumentAgricultural trade reform and the Doha development agenda
World Bank, 2005This working paper examines the extent to which various regions, and the world as a whole, could gain from multilateral trade reform over the next decade.DocumentExploring ecological and socio-economic issues for the improvement of area enclosure management: a case study from Ethiopia.
Drylands Coordination Group, Norway, 2005Land degradation is a severe problem across sub-Saharan Africa, and Ethiopia is among the most affected countries.DocumentRegional cooperation for poverty alleviation and food security in South Asia
Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2004The proposed trade integration in South Asia through SAFTA raises some pertinent issues in the context of trade and food security debate in the region. The challenges in terms of loss of livelihood security and fall in the commodity prices in the agriculture sector are some of the apprehensions being raised at various fora, especially civil society organisations.Pages