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  Anomaly in decision-making under risk: violation of stochastic dominance among farmers in Gujarat, India

  Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2014

  Agriculture is characterised by exposure to numerous risks in the context of natural, institutional, and regulatory environments. Farmers in developing countries tend to be conservative in their resource allocation decisions and allocate their resources to safe, low-risk, low-return activities. Also, in general, risk aversion and adoption of innovations are found to be inversely related.
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  Smallholder Farming and Achieving Our Development Goals

  2014

  A thriving smallholder farm sector can be an engine for rural development that is more equitable, sustainable, and productive than one based on a large-scale farm model. A number of factors need to be considered when assessing the benefits of smallholder farming.
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  Food securities and social conflict

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2014

  Following rising food prices violent ‘food riots’ took place in about 40 countries around the globe in 2007-2008. And at the end of 2010 and the start of 2011, as protests erupted first in Tunisia and then in Algeria, Bahrain, Yemen, Jordan and Egypt, the price of food was widely seen as a significant factor underlying unrest and the train of events of the Arab Spring.
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  Leveraging the private sector to promote agriculture and natural resource-based livelihoods

  Evidence on Demand, 2014

  For the benefit of Livelihoods Advisers in DFID, this Topic Guide sets out the issues arising when stimulating private investment and initiative to the benefit of small-scale and informal farmers, fishers and herders. Four sets of questions are addressed:
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  From research to result: transforming peasant agriculture? Mid-term review of EPINAV Programme, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania. Final report.

  The Norwegian Embassy in Tanzania, 2014

  Norway’s Embassy in Dar es Salaam contracted a mid-term review (MTR) of the Programme "Enhancing Pro-Poor Innovations in Natural Resources and Agricultural Value Chains" (EPINAV), implemented by Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) in collaboration with Norway’s University of Life Sciences (NMBU).
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  Meeting the challenge of a new pro-poor agricultural paradigm: the role of agricultural policies and programmes

  Chronic Poverty Advisory Network, 2012

  Maximising sustained escapes from poverty and preventing impoverishment will accelerate achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This policy guide is designed to show agricultural and other interested policymakers how their policies and programmes can benefit chronically poor people, help poor people move out of poverty and prevent the impoverishment of others.
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  Farming’s climate smart future: placing agriculture at the heart of climate-change policy

  Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, 2011

  This paper places agriculture at the heart of climate change policy stating that climate change is already changing the face of farming. Increases in temperature, changing patterns of rainfall, more extreme droughts and floods, and the shifting distribution of pests and diseases can all be attributed in part to the increase in emissions of greenhouse gases resulting from human activities.
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  Agriculture and climate change: a scoping report

  Meridian Institute, 2011

  This scoping report provides context and analysis for addressing agriculture in international climate negotiations with the aim of informing climate negotiators and other stakeholders of different options and unpacking issues of interest.
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  Mechanisms for agricultural climate change mitigation incentives for smallholders

  Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, 2011

  Smallholder farmers have an important role to play in the prevention of climate change by reducing net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. However, they are not benefitting from international financial mechanisms established as a result of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
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  Poverty, pastoralism and policy in Ngorongoro: lessons learned from the Ereto I Ngorongoro pastoralist project with implications for pastoral development and the policy debate

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2008

  Recent years have seen pastoralist communities in Tanzania becoming increasingly impoverished and vulnerable, due to  livestock diseases, drought, fluctuating market prices and unfavourable policies.

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