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    The global drylands imperative: pastoralism and mobility in the drylands

    Drylands Development Centre, UNDP, 2003
    This document outlines the necessity of formulating development policies specifically targeted at pastoralists and their livelihoods. The author reports that pastoralists have generally been ill-served by development policies and actions because of myths suggesting that pastoralists were 'backward'. Previous policies focused on changing pastoralists into something more ‘modern' or progressive.
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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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    Down on the farm: the impact of nano-scale technologies on food and agriculture

    Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration formerly RAFI, 2004
    This report examines applications of nanotechnology to food and agriculture, which have the potential to revolutionise and further consolidate power over the global food supply.
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    Farmers' rights in India: a case study

    Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 2006
    India is among the first countries in the world to have passed Farmers’ Rights and plant variety protection legislation. This study analyses the achievements, barriers and limitations of India’s approach so far.
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    Tanzania: focus on impact of agricultural subsidies

    Tanzania Online, 2005
    This press release examines the impact of subsidies to farmers in the North on the development of local markets and industries in Tanzania.The findings include:heavy cotton subsidies in the US make it difficult for Tanzanian producers to competethe beef, wheat, dry products, and non-traditional markets like spices have also suffered from subsidies abroadthe markets have become m
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    Political economy of agrarian distress

    Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2006
    This paper examines the structural and economic changes of the political domain over the past five decades to see how the changed nature of politics and policy priorities have exacerbated agrarian distress in various Indian states, characterised by a rise in farmers’ suicides.The author attributes the agrarian distress in India to:a disjuncture between farmers’ interests and the prefere
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    Agricultural science and technology policy for growth and poverty reduction

    International Service for National Agricultural Research, 2005
    Examining public-private partnerships, the authors speculate that these may become a dominant mode of funding for agricultural research in Latin America.
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    Water management, livestock and the opium economy: opium poppy cultivation in kunduz and balkh

    Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2006
    This report draws together an initial set of field observations and working arguments in relation to the drivers of opium poppy cultivation in Kunduz and Balkh, Afghanistan.The authors note that Kunduz is valuable as a research location because of the current general absence of opium poppy cultivation, while in contrast, Balkh, with comparable conditions to Kunduz, is an area of expanding opium
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    Decentralisation in the agricultural sector in Malawi: policies, processes and community linkages

    Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2006
    The government of Malawi instigated a decentralisation programme in 2001 which involved devolving power and resources to local assemblies, with the District Assembly level playing a paramount role.
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    Farmers’ suicides in Maharashtra

    Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2006
    The suicide mortality rate for farmers in the Indian State of Maharashtra has quadrupled in the last decade, according to this research paper. Is agricultural dumping by the United States, declining agricultural investment, and a broader government withdrawal from agriculture driving smallholder farmers into desperation?

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