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    The world food situation: new driving forces and required actions

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2008
    The world food situation is being rapidly redefined, as income growth, climate change, high energy prices, globalisation, and urbanisation transform food consumption, production, and markets. This paper provides an overview of the the key forces driving these changes, and considers what policy responses are required to address the challenges ahead.
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    A tale of two countries spatial and temporal patterns of rice productivity in China and Brazil

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2008
    Increasing population growth and scarcity of land suitable for rice production suggest that China and Brazil need to further increase rice productivity if they hope to continue meeting the increasing demand for food. This paper examines differences in the spatial and temporal variations of rice yields in both China and Brazil.
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    Tropical and diversification products: strategic options for developing countries

    International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2008
    This paper aims to provide strategic options for developing countries regarding the liberalisation of tropical products.
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    Collective action for innovation and small farmer market access: the Papa Andina experience

    CGIAR System-wide Program on Property Rights and Collective Action, 2007
    The Andean highlands are home to some of the poorest rural households in South America. Native potato varieties and local knowledge for their cultivation and use are unique resources possessed by farmers in these areas.
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    Distinguishing community forest products in the market: industrial demand for a mechanism that brings together forest certification and fair trade

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2008
    Using cases from Mexico, Guatemala, Brazil and Papua New Guinea, this report looks at the demand for mechanisms that bring together forest certification and fair trade. It particularly focuses on the gap in detail about industrial demand to distinguish community forest products in the market.
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    Contract farming in the world’s poultry industry

    GRAIN, 2008
    This paper examines contract farming in the poultry sectors of Brazil and Thailand. It explores the benefits and problems that small farmers face as a result of large company control over the poultry industry. The authors also discuss the environmental impact of increased meat production.
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    Agribusiness in South Asia: a fact sheet

    Make Trade Fair Campaign, Oxfam International, 2007
    This paper reviews the nature, profile and functioning of South Asia’s agribusiness sector which has been undergoing rapid changes in the wake of globalisation. Its principal focus is the impact of agribusiness corporations, supermarket chains and such agencies on primary producers and rural poverty reduction.
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    Rating the impact of AIDS

    Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2004
    This project from the Food, Agriculture and Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN) aims to measure the social and financial effects of the HIV epidemic on households and communities. FANRPAN developed a computerised tool to measure a household’s vulnerability to HIV/AIDS using three broad classifications: coping, acute and emergency.
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    Food security: vulnerability despite abundance

    Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2008
    This paper provides an overview of current thinking on food security, identifies the major food security challenges that lie ahead and makes detailed recommendations for tackling these challenges.
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    Farmer Participatory Research in Northern Tanzania

    Farm Africa, 2007
    This document reviews the demand-led participatory model of farmer research and extension implemented by FARM-Africa Tanzania in their Babati Rural Development Research project (2000–2005).

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