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  The political ecology of Chinese investment in Uganda: the case of Hanhe Farm

  SAIS China Africa Research Initiative, 2014

  Hanhe Farm, located in the Nakaseke Administrative District, is the first private Chinese land-based agriculture enterprise in Uganda. This case can be used to examine the political context of land acquisition in Uganda, the ecological impact of land-use changes, and local community experiences and responses to conflicts over access to land and protection of ecological rights.
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  Chinese agricultural engagement in Zambia: a grassroots analysis

  SAIS China Africa Research Initiative, 2015

  Recent focus on large-scale Chinese investments in African agriculture has fueled popular misperceptions of Chinese "land grabs" and has overshadowed another unexplored-and perhaps more significant-phenomenon: the rise of medium-scale private Chinese farmers and rural entrepreneurs.
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  International drivers of Brazilian agricultural cooperation in Africa in the post-2008 economic crisis

  Future Agricultures Consortium, 2015

  Recent international political and economic developments have had an ambiguous impact on the course of and prospects for Brazilian agricultural cooperation in Africa.
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  Impact of the rice trade policy reforms on household welfare in the Philippines

  Philippine Journal of Development, 2010

  The effects of rice trade policy reforms on household welfare, as indicated by changes in consumer and producer prices, are analysed in this paper using nonparametric regression and density estimation. Since many households in the Philippines are consumers and producers of rice, the net benefit ratio (NBR) was used to measure the change in household welfare given changes in prices.
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  Agricultural input subsidies for productivity, farm incomes, consumer welfare and wider growth in low- and middle- income countries: a systematic review

  The Campbell Collaboration, 2013

  Adequate inputs are important to achieving agricultural productivity in developing countries.  But there is a strong concern that the inputs and technologies needed to achieve increased productivity are financially unaffordable or unattractive to many poor farmers.
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  Policy options for agricultural investments and governance of markets: in support of small-scale farmers in Guatemala

  Oxfam, 2014

  Guatemala's farming sector has undergone some major changes over the last 20 years, such as the growth of monocultures and of small-scale farming for export. This trend has been driven by both a general framework of laws offering incentives and international demand, particularly for vegetables, legumes, and substitutes for oil-derived fuels.
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  Rapid Appraisal of the State of Competition in the Rice Value Chain

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2014

  The rapid appraisal is based on the interview of select players in various levels of the palay/rice value chain from Pangasinan and Nueva Ecija to Metro Manila. It finds that the paddy and rice supply chain is multilayered with many competing players in each layer, and with no evidence of any cartel-like behavior in the areas studied.
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  A comparative study on cotton production in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan

  Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung, Bonn, 2014

  Center for Development Research (ZEF) report to evaluate the cotton production sectors in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and to develop potential avenues for improvement.
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  Potential gains by Uganda and India by including coffee in the Duty Free Tariff Preference Scheme

  Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2014

  India is one of the major players in the international coffee market as per its volume of production, domestic consumption and export.
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  Food outlook: biannual report on global food markets: FAO/UNDP

  Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2013

  Food commodity markets are set to be more balanced in 2013/14, in particular cereals. The global food import bill is forecast to reach USD 1.09 trillion in 2013, 13 percent below the record of 2011 but close to the 2012 estimate, as higher bills for fish and livestock products are anticipated to offset lower expenditures on most other commodities, especially sugar.

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