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    Considering the contribution of U.S. food and agricultural policy to the obesity epidemic: overview and opportunities

    Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, 2007
    Nearly one in three American adults are now obese and two-thirds are overweight or obese. These proportions have increased steadily over the past 30 years. Direct and indirect costs of obesity alone have been estimated at $117 billion. This paper explores the relationship between US griculture policy and obesity.
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    Regoverning markets programme: innovative practice series

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2007
    Rapid changes are taking place in agri-food markets in middle and low-income countries and small-scale agriculture, which supports the livelihoods of the majority of rural poor, is poorly prepared for these changes.
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    Connecting small enterprises in ways that enhance the lives of forest-dependent people

    Unasylva, FAO, 2007
    Small and medium forest enterprises are the norm in many developing countries. They have much to offer in terms of poverty reduction. But they are often isolated from structures that might help them make that contribution - from markets, financial and business development service providers, and policy processes.
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    Southern Africa food security outlook: October 2007 to March 2008

    Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2007
    This report summarises the results of a study of the food security outlook for Southern Africa, highlighting the major threats to food security in the period October 2007 to March 2008. It incorporates the findings from six country outlooks, and aims to provide a basis for regional and global resource allocation and contingency planning, as well as in-country planning.
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    Focus on... Agriculture after conflict

    New Agriculturalist, 2007
    The aftermath of war is a reality faced by millions of rural poor around the world, and re-establishing agricultural production, for both subsistence and trade, is an essential part of the rehabilitation process.
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    A value chain task force approach for managing private-public partnerships: Zambia's task force on acceleration of cassava utilisation

    US Agency for International Development, 2007
    Smallholder farmers operate in vertical supply chains, so an understanding of key opportunities and constraints up through the value chain becomes necessary for sustaining smallholder growth. Yet market analysis is of little value unless key private and public sector stakeholders agree to implement necessary reforms.
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    Philippines: Agriculture expenditure review

    World Bank Publications, 2007
    This document presents the Agriculture Public Expenditure Review (AgPER), a document which assesses the ways of increasing the impact of public expenditures on broad-based agricultural growth in the Philippines.
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    The Doha talks and the bargaining surplus in agriculture

    Estey Centre Journal of International Law and Trade Policy, 2007
    The Doha Round has been slow to achieve a reduction in the level of agricultural protection. This remains the case notwithstanding the substantial economic benefits that would arise from a more liberal agricultural trading regime. This paper analyses the political motivations behind this reluctance to reduce agricultural protection through a bargaining model.
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    Local and regional procurement of food aid in Africa: impact and policy issues

    Reliefweb, 2007
    European Commission policy endorses local and regional procurement of food aid commodities (LRP), a practice that is believed to assist in the development of local agriculture and livelihoods in supplying countries. This paper argues that LRP of food aid can make a much larger contribution to the economies of developing countries and poor people in particular.
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    Changes in global value chains of fresh fruit and vegetables: opportunities and challenges for producers in Sub-Saharan Africa

    South Centre, 2007
    The governance of the global value chain in fresh fruit and vegetables no longer consists of an arm’s-length relationship between African (in the context of this document) smallholder producers and retailers with the links along the chain including agents and wholesalers.

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