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  More than simply "socially embedded": recognising the distinctiveness of African land rights

  Landrightswatch.net, 2006

  Land tenure reform remains a key policy issue in Africa, given the large proportion of people relying on land and natural resources for their livelihoods. This paper addresses the exclusionary nature of many processes around land, which can lead to social divisions.
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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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  Community based drought management for the pastoral livestock sector in Sub-Saharan Africa

  Livestock, Environment and Development, Virtual Research and Development Centre, 2006

  This paper seeks to inform African policy-makers, and decision-makers in international aid and development organisations, of the urgency of managing drought for the livestock sector, particularly in pastoral and agro-pastoral systems.
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  Making property rights accessible: social movements andlegal innovation in the Philippines

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005

  Today, many rural poor Filipinos are using state law to try to claim land rights. In spite of the availability of a much stronger set of legal resources than ever before, claiming legal land rights remains difficult. Some argue these difficulties are a reason to turn away from state-led land reform and toward a market-assisted land reform (MALR) model.
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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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  Liberalising agricultural trade and developing countries

  2003

  This paper presents the key issues debated at a conference on the liberalisation of agricultural trade and the interests of developing countries which took place prior to the WTO Doha Round negotiations on agriculture.
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  ICTs: transforming agricultural extension?

  Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, 2006

  This summary report provides an outline of the main issues and trends in agricultural extension, as they relate to ICTs, with a special emphasis on improving rural livelihoods. The report draws on the presentations, case studies and discussions from the CTA Observatory.
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  Informal cross border food trade in southern Africa

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2004

  This brief highlights the issue of trade barriers in southern Africa and its impact on informal cross boarder trade in the region. The report shows that while there may be surpluses in neighbouring countries, food deficit countries such as Zimbabwe continue to experience a high grain prices due to import/export restrictions.
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  South Bulletin: Hunger

  South Centre, 2005

  This issue of the South Bulletin focuses on Hunger, with contributions from various Southern leaders including speeches from President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil, President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela and President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe as well as other stakeholders.Hunger is an emergency: President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva argues that hunger needs to be raised as a polit

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