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  Gender inequality, risk and vulnerability in the rural economy: refocusing the public works agenda to take account of economic and social risks

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2011

  Although the gender-specific challenges of women’s largely unequal involvement in agricultural activities are generally well-articulated, social protection policy and programming have not adequately recognised the gendered experiences of poverty and vulnerability and the extent to which gender inequality affects both social protection programme design and outcomes.
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  Agricultural biotechnology research and development in the Philippines: the need for a strategic approach

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2000

  This paper examines the capacity of the Philippines to join and benefit from the biotechnological revolution.
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  Toward the sustainable development of the fisheries sector: an analysis of the Philippine Fisheries Code and the AFMA

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 1999

  The fisheries sector hosts some of the worst environmental problems of the Philippines. Because of this, it is a critical arena in the effort to attain a more sustainable form of development in the country. The search for solutions to the environmental problems in the fisheries sector has been going on for years.
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  Poverty and environmental damage in Philippine agriculture: do trade policies matter?

  2005

  Is there some truth to the common assumption that upland farmers are insulated from and not directly affected by most economic policies? The authors of this brief note otherwise as they uncover the link between trade policies, poverty and environmental damage in Philippine agricul ture in this issue of the DRN .
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  Revisiting RP's Hybrid Rice Program

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2005

  The United Nations General Assembly declared 2004 the International Year of the Rice (IYR). The IYR is a venue to promote improved production and development of sustainable rice-based systems that will contribute to environmental conservation and a better life for present and future generations.
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  The State of Food and Agriculture: social protection and agriculture: breaking the cycle of rural poverty

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2015

  This edition of The State of Food and Agriculture 2015 reviews the effectiveness of social protection interventions in reducing poverty, raising food consumption, relieving household food insecurity and hunger, and promoting longer-term improvements in nutrition. It is argued that social protection programmes are effective at reducing poverty and hunger.
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  The prospect of biogas among small-holder dairy goat farmers in the Uluguru Mountains, Tanzania

  African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development, 2016

  Biogas can be a clean cooking alternative where biomass is the dominant source of cooking energy and where feedstock for anaerobic digestion is available.  By substituting woody biomass for energy, biogas may reduce local deforestation. Tanzania has more than 15.6 million goats. Dairy goats of different breeds are found in the  mid-to high altitudes of the country.
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  Norfund’s Kilombero Plantation in Tanzania: meagre results from a large investment

  Association for International Water Studies, Norway, 2016

  This report set out to analyse water use by Kilombero Plantations Limited (KPL) in  Tanzania  and  its  effect  on  the  people  dependent  on  local  water  resources.
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  Towards an efficient path to food security: The Philippine case

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 1998

  The main focus of this paper is to analyze government’s policy regarding property rights. Public expenditure allocation is also examined to infer how policy and institutional interventions have affected the performance of the agriculture sector. Data analysis shows that improvement on agricultural incentives happens at the expense of efficiencies of resource allocation.
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  Agricultural policy and the WTO Agreement: The Philippine Case

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 1997

  This paper analyzes the changing nature of price intervention and public expenditure policies affecting agriculture in the Philippines, the implications of WTO agricultural agreement on these policies and the factors in the political economy that help shape the nature of agricultural policies.

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