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    Climate change: impact on agriculture and costs of adaptation

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2009
    Climate change, together with global population and income growth, is a major threat to food security in the world. This food policy report presents research results which quantify climate change impact, assess the consequences for food security and estimate the investment required to offset the negative effects on human wellbeing.
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    The state of food insecurity in the World 2009

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2009
    This is the tenth progress report on world hunger since the 1996 World Food Summit (WFS). It highlights that the food crisis has twinned with the economic crisis increasing the number of hungry people.
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    The international food system and the climate crisis

    GRAIN, 2009
    This article is about the inability of the global food system to fulfill its most basic function of feeding people while agribusiness corporations that control the food chain are amassing billions of dollars in profits. The world’s governments and international agencies are pushing for more agribusiness, more industrial agriculture and more globalisation, despite calls for change.
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    Are farmers’ organizations a good tool to improve small-scale farmers’ welfare?

    Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2009
    This paper examines the hypothesis that farmers’ organisations act as a tool to improve the living conditions of farmers in poor countries, both by improving their market situation and enhancing the dissemination of information. In this context, the paper estimates the causal effect on small-scale farmers’ income from being member in a farmers’ organisation in Mozambique.
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    Local markets, local varieties: rising food prices and small farmers' access to seed

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2009
    This report provides case-specific responses to key seed policy issues based on the relationship between seed markets and high food prices, which were discussed at the project findings meeting at FAO in May 2008. The paper answers key questions in the country context for India, Kenya, and Mali including whether high food prices will mean higher seed prices and seed insecurity for poor farmers.
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    Tracking results in agriculture and rural development in less-than-ideal conditions

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2009
    While donors and development practitioners still lack a common framework of results indicators to measure the effectiveness of development assistance, this sourcebook sets out a menu of core indicators that can be used to monitor agriculture and rural development (ARD) at the project, national regional and global levels.
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    FAO Diversification Booklets

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2009
    What opportunities are there at farm and local community level to increase the incomes of small-scale farmers? This series of booklets aims to raise awareness and provide decision support information about opportunities for increasing the incomes of small-scale farmers.
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    Agrarian change in Maoist influenced areas of Nepal

    Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2009
    This paper conducts a statistical analysis of agrarian change in Maoist influenced districts of Nepal. The paper analyses land distribution and agricultural wages before and during the Maoist existence. The analysis contributes to the classical debate on whether a political and military revolutionary movement can contribute to the change in basic economic structures and mechanisms.
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    China's growth, world food prices, and developing countries exports

    AgEcon Search, 2009
    This paper explores the consequences of the growth in China's demand for food on prices in the international markets for agricultural products. It focuses on two current debates in the literature related to the impact of China's growth:
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    Agribusiness and Society: Corporate Responses to Environmentalism, Market Opportunities and Public Regulation

    Zed Books, 2004
    How far are agribusiness corporations responding to emerging environmental awareness to play their part in the 'greening' of agriculture and food? Are they developing new environmentally-friendly products, services and production methods?

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