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  Seed aid for seed security: advice for practitioners

  Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical, Colombia, 2006

  Does seed aid needs to be improved? According to the authors of this publication series, seed-based agricultural recovery is more complex than commonly assumed. This series of practice briefs offers advice on how to sustain and strengthen seed systems during disaster response and recovery periods.
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  GM crops in India: is the government's policy stance justified?

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2006

  In assessing the policy stance taking by the government of India on the issue of GM technology, the author concludes that there is not sufficient economic justification for the government to promote the use of transgenic corps.
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  Anticipating and responding to drought emergencies in southern Africa: lessons from the 2002-2003 experience

  The Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics - Michigan State University, 2005

  The paper suggests that nutritional monitoring needs to be complemented by information on the sustainability of household coping behaviour. Unfortunately, very little such information has become publicly available. Food prices and market impacts varied widely across the region.
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  The top-down global response to bird flu

  GRAIN, 2006

  This report from GRAIN looks at the power politics behind this global response to avian flu and its consequences for the poor.
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  Legislator and livestock: a comparative analysis of pastoralist parliamentary groups in Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda

  Natural Resources Institute, UK, 2005

  This final report synthesises the findings of three case studies carried out under the NRI/PENHA research project on Pastoralist Parliamentary Groups (PPGs) in Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda.Several methodological and substantive issues of importance in analysing the role of the PPGs are identified:uncertainties involved in reconstructing the often controversial histories of the groupsl
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  Urban agriculture in the Gaza Strip, Palestine

  Eldis Document Store, 2006

  Gaza is characterised by a rapid increase of population and expansion of cities and refugee camps. Large-scale, export-oriented agricultural production has reached its limits of land-use availability and, at the same time, is confronted with the socio-economic demands related to food insecurity and the need for income generation.
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  HIV/AIDS and the agricultural sector: implications for policy in Eastern and Southern Africa

  Economic and Social Department, FAO, 2005

  The paper draws upon development economics theory, demographic projections, and empirical evidence to consider the likely consequences of the HIV/AIDS pandemic for the agricultural sector of the hardest-hit countries of Eastern and Southern Africa.It identifies four processes that have been underemphasised in previous analysis:the momentum of long-term population growth ratessubstan
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  Food safety and consumer choice policy

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003

  This working paper identifies policy choices and tradeoffs with respect to agricultural biotechnology for the Southern African region. It analyses the scientific basis for food safety concerns and the way policies of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) do or do not address these concerns.
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  The local politics of land and water: case studies from the Mekong Delta

  Groupe de recherche et d'échanges technologiques, 2005

  This document takes a historical view of the relations between individual and collective actors in local water management in the Mekong Delta in southern Vietnam.
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  Vietnam Red River Delta irrigation management: incomplete recognition of local institutional innovations

  Groupe de recherche et d'échanges technologiques, 2001

  Prepared as part of a study on innovations for irrigation management, this report analyses the history of changes and processes around the de-collectivisation of agriculture in Vietnam in the 1980s.At this time, emerging farming households in the Red River Delta became directly involved in agriculture. New water service requirements arose from de-collectivisation.

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