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  Resource-poor farmers in South India: on the margins or frontiers of globalisation

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2006

  It is often argued that an important reason why globalisation may lead to GDP growth but fail to reduce poverty is because the poor are unable to participate in new market opportunities and are thus marginalised.
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  Promoting pro-poor growth: agriculture

  Development Assistance Committee, OECD, 2006

  In most poor countries growth in agriculture tends to be pro-poor, because it increases the value of poor people’s key assets of land and labour. Achieving internationally agreed poverty reduction targets therefore depends on boosting growth in agricultural sector productivity for the majority of countries.
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  Towards effective and sustainable seed relief activities

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2004

  This report is the outcome of a FAO workshop on "Effective and Sustainable Seed Relief Activities", convened 26–28 May 2003. The aim of the workshop was to improve the effectiveness of seed relief interventions and the contribution they can make to sustainable improvements in seed, food and livelihood security.
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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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  Food retailing, supermarkets and food security: highlights from Latin America

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2006

  With the advent of supermarkets in urban centres in many developing countries, the question of their impact on access to food and food security for the urban poor has arisen.
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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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  Policies and strategies to address the vulnerability of pastoralists in Sub-Saharan Africa

  2006

  This paper makes a case for increased policy attention to pastoralists in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).
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  Land rights reform and governance in Africa

  United Nations Development Programme, 2006

  The main argument of this paper is that insecurity of land tenure is a socio-political condition that can be made and unmade. This discussion paper focuses on customary land rights, particularly in the African context.

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