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  Women, food security and agriculture in a global marketplace: A significant shift

  International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2008

  New directions in development assistance and agricultural investments must recognize and support women's involvement in the full agricultural value chain from production to processing to marketing.
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  Preliminary study of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee on discrimination in the context of the right to food

  UN Human Rights Council, 2010

  This study on discrimination in the context of the right to food was produced for the fourth session of the Advisory Committee of the UN Human Rights Council held in February 2010.
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  Rising demand for livestock products in India: nature, patterns and implications

  AgEcon Search, 2010

  With a large population and recent growth in consumer income, India’s demand for food has increased. This study examines the demand for livestock products by Indian consumers, and discusses its implications. The study shows that:
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  Cash constraints and sticky input expenditures: experimental evidence from Malawi

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 2011

  Malawi has implemented a large-scale agricultural input subsidy program since 2005 after a period with severe food shortages and the program has contributed to increased food availability, higher real wages, economic growth and poverty reduction.
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  Innovative tools to address drought risk in grazing lands

  AgEcon Search, 2011

  The vulnerability of grazing livestock systems with close dependence on silvo-pastoral systems highlights the need for tools to evaluate and mitigate the adverse impacts of drought. The aim of this paper is analyse the potential of index based insurance to address drought risks in Chilean grazing lands, focusing on the Araucanía region.
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  Alert at Maradi: preventing food crises in West Africa by using price signals

  AgEcon Search, 2011

  Countries located in the Sahel region of Africa are repeatedly confronted by episodes of rapid increase in grain prices resulting in food crises. This paper aims at exploiting grain price data to detect the warning signs of looming food crises in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger. The authors identify which markets play a leading role at the national and regional level.
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  Linking small farmers to emerging agricultural marketing systems in India: the case study of a fresh food retail chain in Punjab

  AgEcon Search, 2011

  Linking primary producers with global and national markets through fresh food retail chains is seen as one of the emerging agricultural marketing practices in India to improve small producer’s livelihoods. This paper examines the operations of a fresh food retail chain named ‘Easy Day’ and its interface with farmers in Punjab.
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  Determinants of adoption and extent of agricultural intensification in the central mid-hills of Nepal

  Canadian Center of Science and Education, 2011

  The problems encountered by Nepalese farmers in the adoption of agricultural intensification (AI), and the constraints and complexities of sustainable AI are not thoroughly understood. This study analyses factors influencing the adoption and extent of AI at household level in specific region in the central mid-hills of Nepal.
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  Farmers’ choice and informal credit markets in China

  AgEcon Search, 2011

  Informal credit markets are very active in China. This paper investigates farmers' borrowings in China from both formal and informal sources with higher/lower interest, by looking into both demand and supply of loan. In this context, the document sheds light on lending criteria or the factors underlying the credit-scoring model.
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  The response of consumption to income shocks: evidence from the Indian trade liberalization

  AgEcon Search, 2011

  In the past two decades, India has enacted a number of policies, including a dramatic trade liberalisation, that in part aim to reduce the incidence of both poverty and food insecurity. This study focuses on how households employed in industries exposed to large tariff decreases cope with the negative income shocks caused by the increased import competition.

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