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  Agricultural production and soil nutrient mining in africa: implications for resource conservation and policy development

  International Fertilizer Development Center, 2006

  Agricultural development is vital to Africa’s economic growth, food security, and poverty alleviation.
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  State intervention for food price stabilisation in Africa: can it work?

  Programme of Advisory and Support Services to DFID, 2005

  This paper discusses the options for the stabilisation of the prices of staple foods principally in Eastern and Southern Africa. It addresses three broad questions: Why is the stabilisation of food prices desirable? What is technically feasible?
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  Missungwi income and food security project: final report of the mid-term evaluation

  CARE International, 2004

  This report presents the findings of the mid-term review of the Missungwi Income and Food Security (MIFOSE) project, in Tanzania.
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  Institutional innovations and water management in Office du Niger (1910-1999) : the long failure and new success of a big irrigation scheme

  Groupe de recherche et d'échanges technologiques, 2002

  Can economic liberalisation boost irrigation production and on which conditions? This report takes the case of the Mali ‘Office du Niger’ irrigation scheme, and analyses how it was transformed from a technical and financial failure to a modern success story.The gravity-fed Office du Niger irrigation scheme was created in 1932.
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  Does policy research matter?: a farewell lecture

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2005

  Consensus on the value of agriculture in development has varied significantly over the last several decades. Is this a due to new theory and scientific evidence, or instead a series of ad hoc responses to a changing world?
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  Indigenous knowledge of edible tree products: the Mungomu Tree in central Mozambique

  LinKS Project: Gender, Biodiversity and Local Knowledge Systems for Food Security, FAO, 2005

  What role can a traditional tree crop play in food and nutrition security in arid regions? This joint study reviews and documents the local knowledge base on the Mungomu tree in the district of Macossa, Mozambique, and establishes whether it varies according to gender, socio-economic status and generational differences.
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  Agricultural innovation in Latin America: Understanding the private sector's role

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2006

  Conventional thinking has it that private sector investment in agricultural innovation is not sufficient to stimulate new knowledge and technologies that contribute to rural development and poverty alleviation in Latin America.
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  Land tenure reform and gender equality

  United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2005

  This brief explores the reform of land tenure institutions which re-emerged in the 1990s, and asks if these reforms are any more gender sensitive than those of the past?The paper highlights that a focus of the recent reforms has been on land titling, designed to promote security of tenure and stimulate land markets.
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  Status of food security and prospects for agricultural development in Africa

  African Union, 2005

  This review of the African agriculture sector reveals the unchallenged prominence of the sector in the economies of most African countries, in terms of its contribution to GDP, export earnings and employment. Accelerating agricultural growth in African countries is crucial not only for achieving food security and reducing hunger but also for generating employment and trade.
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  Agricultural workers and their contribution to sustainable agriculture and rural development

  Sustainable Development Department, FAO SD Dimensions, 2005

  This report on agricultural workers and their contribution to sustainable agriculture and rural development focuses on the 450 million women and men who are employed as waged agricultural workers, and who are at the very heart of the food production system. This workforce is disadvantaged in many respects.

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