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    Inclusive business in agrifood markets: evidence and action

    Regoverning Markets Programme, 2008
    This report brings together issues discussed at an international conference on “Inclusive Business in Agrifood Markets: Evidence to Action in 2008.The conference sought to answer the following questions:
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    The rural finance landscape. A practitioner's guide

    Network Learning, 2009
    Rural finance refers to financial services such as savings, lending, insurance and remittance services provided by a variety of actors. These actors can be friends, relatives, shopkeepers, traders, money lenders, traditional savings and lending groups, microfinance programmes or banks.
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    Agricultural R&D policy: a tragedy of the international commons

    AgEcon Search, 2008
    Over the past 50 years, public agricultural research has contributed enormously to humanity. Nonetheless, the world has continued to collectively underinvest in agricultural research and development (R&D), and many countries have witnessed declining public support for agricultural R&D.
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    Perking up the economy: coffee in Rwanda

    Mercatus Center, George Mason University, 2007
    This policy brief focuses on the recent developments in the Rwandan coffee industry. It says while the highly regulated conditions of the past stifled the industry, recent market policies have given a boost to the sector.
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    Linking international agricultural research knowledge with action for sustainable poverty alleviation: what works?

    Center for International Development, Harvard University, 2008
    How can knowledge better contribute to poverty reduction?
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    India’s agrarian crisis and smallholder producers’ participation in new farm supply chain initiatives: a case study of contract farming

    Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2007
    This paper focuses on the socio-economic implications of corporate-led initiatives in agriculture, mainly contract farming, in the Indian state of Punjab, which has more experience in contract farming compared to other states.
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    Biofuels - at what cost? Government support for biodiesel in Malaysia

    International Institute for Sustainable Development, 2008
    Focusing on government support policies, this report examines the history and status of the biofuel industry in Malaysia. It forms part of a multi-country effort by the Global Subsidies Initiative (GSI) to characterise and quantify government subsidies and other support for biofuel production, distribution and consumption.
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    New Agriculturalist focus on Potato

    New Agriculturalist, 2008
    This edition of New Agriculturist focusses on the potato, examining the challenges and opportunities facing producers worldwide. Among the articles includes in the edition are a report from Bolivia looking at efforts to improve access for rural potato growers to high-value urban markets, and the work to conserve the vast genetic diversity of potato in the highlands of Peru.
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    Import/export parity price analysis

    Famine Early Warning Systems Network, 2008
    This manual focuses on the role parity prices play in food security and early warning analysis. Parity prices are used to compare prices of a commodity in two different locations, when the two locations are in different countries.
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    When disaster strikes: a guide to assessing seed system security

    Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, 2008
    Intervening in seed systems is serious business. Seed systems are at the heart of agricultural production and determines what farmers grow and whether they will have a harvest. Badly designed and poorly implemented seed aid during a crisis harms farmers, making them even more vulnerable to uncertainties.

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