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  The relationship between trade and sustainable development of agriculture in Central America

  Heinrich Boell Foundation, 2003

  This summary document highlights the main aspects of a study characterising the evolution of the agricultural sector in Central America over recent years and exploring ways to remove the negative environmental consequences and to promote conservation.Characteristics of the Central American agricultural sector include: the products that have demonstrated the most dynamism were based on t
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  Livestock production: the twenty first century's food revolution

  Livestock Research for Rural Development, 2004

  This paper discusses the donor community's role in securing a poverty oriented commercialisation of livestock production in the developing world.The author notes that the global food market is undergoing major changes, especially in the developing world.
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  Community integrated pest management in Indonesia: institutionalising participation and people centred approaches

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2003

  This report assesses the extent to which community integrated pest management (IPM) has been institutionalised in Java, Indonesia, by examining three areas of change, namely:policy reforms at national and local levelssocial and environmental impacts of community IPM in a variety of local settingsorganisational changes within government bureaucracies, FAO and other support agencies.
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  Bangladeshi farmers benefit from integrated pest management

  US Agency for International Development, 2003

  This report details how integrated pest management (IPM) technologies have affected vegetable crop productivity in Bangladesh. The author finds that overall, IPM technology, adopted in January 2001 by a number of Bangladeshi farmers, has proven highly successful.The IPM technology programme was implemented in Bangladesh by IPM CRSP, an international development agency from the United States.
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  Ecologically-based participatory implementation of integrated pest management and agroforestry in Nicaragua and central America

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2004

  This report details the implementation of an integrated pest management and agroforestry (IPM-AF) program, developed in response to the weakening of the extension function within national agricultural systems in Nicaragua and Central America.
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  The environmental costs of agricultural trade liberalisation: Mexico-U.S. maize trade under NAFTA

  Heinrich Boell Foundation, 2004

  This paper examines the environmental implications of tripling US maize exports to Mexico, following massive tariff reductions under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
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  Is environmentally-friendly agriculture less profitable for farmers?: evidence on integrated pest management in Bangladesh

  World Bank, 2004

  This paper applies the latest survey data on rice production in Bangladesh to assess the net economic, health and environmental benefits of switching to Integrated Pest Management (IPM).The author assessed the net economic benefits of IPM adoption in three productivity comparisons, using input ratios, standard production functions and stochastically-estimated production frontiers.The author fin
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  Philippine onion farmers profit from integrated pest management technology

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2003

  This paper discusses the impact of integrated pest management (IPM) technology on onion farmers in the Philippines.
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  Pastoralism on the margin

  Minority Rights Group International, 2004

  This report focuses on the sustainability of pastoralism in the lowlands of the Great Rift of East Africa and the Horn, arguing that pastoralism as a mode of production and a way of life has entered a phase of decline, often accompanied by conflict, drought, famine and flooding.The report details the historic evolution and chief characteristics of pastoralism, discussing the eras of colonialism
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  Are rural women disadvantaged in asset ownership and business relations in the Kyrgyz Republic?

  BASIS Collaborative Research Support Program, 2004

  This paper examines how, over the past 10 years, Kyrgyzstan has privatised most of its agricultural land and distributed it to individual households. These households either farm alone or join together and farm cooperatively. This research seeks to examine whether women have been adversely affected in the process of privatisation, asset ownership, or business development.

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