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  Another silver bullet for Africa?: Bill Gates to resurrect the Rockefeller Foundation's decaying green revolution

  GRAIN, 2006

  Here GRAIN explores the debates around a ”Green Revolution” for Africa in light of recent announcements by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation and the World Food Programme.
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  The Millennium Villages Project: a new approach to ending rural poverty in Africa?

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2006

  The Millennium Villages Project (MVP), an initiative of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, is an attempt at an integrated and bottom-up approach to getting African villages out of the poverty trap. It involves massive injections of capital targeted at, presently, a handful of villages, combining agricultural support with health, infrastructure and education interventions.
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  The many paths of cotton sector reform in Eastern and Southern Africa: lessons from a decade of experience

  The Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics - Michigan State University, 2006

  Cotton is a rare economic success story in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), generating cash incomes for millions of smallholder households and allowing the continent to capture a rising share of world trade in the crop.
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  Development, planning, and agricultural knowledge on the central plateau of Burkina Faso

  Simon Batterbury, Personal Website, 2005

  This chapter discusses efforts by the farmers in Burkina Faso’s Central Plateau to plan their own agricultural systems, and the role of development actors in this process.
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  Growing green: the challenge of sustainable agricultural development in Sub-Saharan Africa

  International Policy Network, 2006

  Agriculture is the dominant economic sector in most Sub-Saharan nations and Africans depend almost entirely on domestic production for their food, but agriculture has not performed well over the past two decades.
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  Indigenous knowledge on the South African landscape: potentials for agricultural development

  Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa, 2006

  Development needs to start with what people know and build on their knowledge and experiences.
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  Agricultural R&D in the developing world: too little, too late?

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2006

  Are developing countries are at risk of becoming technological orphans?
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  The distribution of relief seed and fertilizer in Zimbabwe: lessons derived from the 2003/04 season

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2004

  This analysis summarises the results of three major farm surveys designed to assess the distribution of seed and fertiliser inputs following the 2002/03 season drought in Zimbabwe.
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  Enhancing agricultural innovation: how to go beyond the strengthening of research systems

  World Bank, 2006

  How does innovation occur? Describing recent changes in the context of agricultural development, this paper signals a need to better examine how innovation is generated in the agricultural sector.
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  Linking small farmers to the formal research sector: lessons from a participatory bean breeding programme in Honduras

  Overseas Development Institute, 2005

  This paper discusses the improvement of bean varieties as a joint activity between Honduran hillside farmers and regional scientists.

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