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    Turning high prices into an opportunity: what is needed?

    WTO Watch Trade Observatory, IATP, 2008
    Over the past two years commodity prices have risen unexpectedly. This paper argues that high prices are likely to remain high and volatile. To some extent, this is a development opportunity as it might increase incomes and reduce poverty. In the short term, however, import expenses are rising while inefficient agricultural sectors prevent poor countries from benefiting from high prices.
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    Globalisation, labour markets and inequality in India

    International Development Research Centre, 2008
    Analysing unit-level data on poverty, inequality and employment in post-reform India, this book finds that:
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    Organic certification schemes: managerial skills and associated costs

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2007
    Certification is critical in organic markets as it enables organic producers to access new export and domestic market opportunities and premium prices due to the fact that organic quality adds value to products. Whilst in developed countries, economic incentives and enabling policies and regulations have
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    What will higher global food prices mean for poor consumers and small farmers in southern Africa?

    Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2008
    Rising food prices present a very real threat to ongoing efforts to combat poverty and hunger in southern Africa. However, this brief produced by the Regional Hunger & Vulnerability Programme (RHVP), argues that this is not necessarily the full picture.
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    id21 natural resources highlights 6: Rural livelihoods

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    This bi-annual addition of id21 Natural Resources Highlights looks specifically at rural livelihoods. It contains the following three articles:
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    Rising food prices: drivers and implications for development

    Child Rights Information Network, 2008
    Global food prices have risen 83 per cent over the last three years, with significant impacts for the world's poorest people. This briefing paper focuses on what this important change means for international development. It assesses the drivers of rising prices, discusses the implications of higher prices for developing countries, and surveys implications for development policy.
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    Sustainability standards and coffee exports from Tanzania

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 2008
    One of the key trends characterising the agro-food trade in the last two decades has been the increasing complexity of public and private standards that are applied to imports into developed countries. This paper aims to identify critical areas to facilitate compliance with sustainability standards in coffee, which is the major traditional export crop for Tanzania.
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    South Africa and China: the agricultural and fisheries trading relationship

    Trade Law Centre for Southern Africa, 2008
    A feature of world trade over the last ten years has been the dramatic growth of China's trade with the world.  This paper examines the agricultural component of Chinese trade with South Africa, which it aims to place in broader perspective of China's global trading relationships.
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    Sudan food assistance transition study

    Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project, 2007
    This study provides an assessment of the key issues related to the impact that the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) has had on the most insecure food and nutritionally vulnerable areas and people in southern Sudan and the Three Areas - Abyei, Nuba Mountains and the Blue Nile.The objectives of the report are:
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    Suicide seeds? biotechnology meets the developmental state

    Center for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania, 2008
    This article examines the biotechnology debate in India focusing on transgenic seeds. The author presents the rifts and battles in this sector, highlighting the influence of farmers, journalists, environmental activists, government officials, and the international community.

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