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Looking ahead: long-term prospects for Africa’s agricultural development and food security
2020 Vision for Food, Agriculture and the Environment, International Food Policy Research Institute, 2005This paper explores and evaluates the consequences of various policies related to food security in Africa based on projections for the year 2025, focusing on agricultural production. Using computer models, the authors show how three different policy scenarios are likely to affect the supply of, demand for, and trade of crops.DocumentOrganic agriculture and poverty reduction in Asia: China and India focus
International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2005The primary goal of this report is to enable a better understanding of organic agriculture in Asia, particularly India and China, and to clarify how organics can serve or hinder poor, small farmers and rural communities.DocumentThe impact of research led agricultural productivity growth on poverty reduction in Africa, Asia and Latin America
Management Centre, Kings College London, 2002This paper quantifies the impact of agricultural productivity growth on the incidence of poverty in the least developed countries, measured by the percentage of the population living on less than $1 per day.DocumentAsset inequality and agricultural growth: how are patterns of asset inequality established and reproduced?
World Bank, 2005This paper reviews the literature on the relationships between inequality and agricultural growth. It emphasises the social and political constructions of inequalities, particularly inequality affects growth which in turn exacerbate and reproduce these inequalities.DocumentNew directions for African agriculture
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005Despite the fact that most of Africa’s poor are rural, and rely largely on agriculture for their livelihoods, African agriculture is slow-growing or stagnating, held back by low yields, poor infrastructure, environmental change, HIV and AIDS and civil conflict. However, this sweeping picture hides some important success stories.DocumentBuilding on the July Framework Agreement: options for agriculture
International Food and Agricultural Trade Policy Council, USA, 2005This issue brief is intended to provide negotiators and other interested stakeholders with an independent analysis of options for elaborating the “July Framework Agreement” as negotiations between WTO members move towards the development of concrete negotiating modalities at the Hong Kong Ministerial in December 2005.DocumentForthcoming changes in the EU banana and sugar markets: a menu ofoptions for an effective EU transitional package
Overseas Development Institute, 2005Preferential access under the EU’s Sugar and Banana Protocols has supported large income transfers to a number of ACP countries. These transfers will be reduced under proposed reforms to the EU’s sugar and banana markets which are due to take place at the end of 2005.DocumentEU sugar reform; the implications for the development of LDCs
Department for International Development, UK, 2005This study argues that the granting of unlimited duty-free access under the EBA (Everything But Arms) Agreement will coincide with reform of the EU sugar regime, which is expected to lead to significant price reductions in the EU market.DocumentAgricultural trade reform and the Doha development agenda
World Bank, 2005This working paper examines the extent to which various regions, and the world as a whole, could gain from multilateral trade reform over the next decade.DocumentSouthern Africa's food and humanitarian crisis of 2001 - 04: causes and lessons
Agricultural Economics Society, UK, 2005This paper outlines the crisis and responses to Southern Africa's food and humanitarian crisis (2001-4), examining both immediate triggers and underlying factors.Pages