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  Food for assets - adapting programming to an HIV/AIDS context

  Consortium for Southern Africa Food Security Emergency, 2004

  This report from the Consortium for Southern Africa Food Security Emergency (C-SAFE) reviews a variety of Food for Assets (FFA) projects with the aim of identifying better practices in FFA programming. It examines the shift from Food for Work approaches, which focused on employment generation, to FFA, which emphasises community managed assets, including the development of human capital.
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  Differentiation between developing countries in the WTO

  Swedish Board of Agriculture, 2004

  This paper analyses ways to differentiate between developing countries in the WTO, with special relevance to discussions on special and differential treatment and the ongoing multilateral trade negotiations on agriculture in the Doha Development Round.The author argues that differentiation between the developing countries within the WTO is almost the rule, rather than the exception and emphasis
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  Agricultural price policy for developing countries

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 1989

  This book, recently made available free online, focuses on agricultural price policy in the context of economic growth, specifically in relation to technological change.
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  The wrong ointment: why the EU's proposals for free trade with Africa will not heal its scar of poverty

  Catholic Fund for Overseas Development, 2004

  This paper argues that the UK Government's positive focus on poverty reduction in Africa is being seriously undermined by the inequitable bilateral free trade agreements currently being negotiated between the Europe Union and African countries.The paper highlights that the European Union is asking African countries to liberalise 90% of their markets over 10 years whilst at the same time refusin
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  Poverty reduction strategies and relevant learning in higher agricultural education: case studies from Ethiopia, Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2003

  This paper analyses agricultural higher education in relation to poverty reduction strategies in four African countries: Ethiopia, Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda.The paper addresses three key issues in the four African countries:how the PRSPs are reflected in official policies, implementation plans and fund allocations to agricultural educationhow case study countries agricultural educ
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  Gender budgeting analysis: a study in Maharashtra’s agriculture

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2004

  This paper analyses the impact that state budgets of Maharashtra, India had on women in agriculture between 1998 to 2002.
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  Better technology, better plots or better farmers?: identifying changes in productivity and risk among Malagasy rice farmers

  Poverty, inequality and development research at Cornell University, 2004

  This paper highlights the difficulty in determining the extent to which observed agricultural output gains are due to a new technology itself, rather than to the skill of the farmer or the quality of the plot on which the new technology is tried.This paper introduces a method for attributing productivity and risk changes among new production methods, farmers and plots by controlling for farmer
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  Agricultural research and extension funding levels required to meet the Anti-Hunger programme objectives

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2004

  This paper provides an overview of levels and trends in agricultural research and extension investments.
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  Breaking new ground: livelihood choices, opportunities and tradeoffs for women and girls in rural Bangladesh

  IDL Group, 2004

  This report discusses the type and nature of changes that Bangladeshi rural women and girls perceive as the most important. The report, based on field analysis, finds that women and girls are participating in and in many cases driving changes in rural areas of Bangladesh.The report highlights the fact that significant changes are taking place in rural life throughout Bangladesh.
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  Reaching the rural poor: a renewed strategy for rural development

  World Bank, 2003

  The "Reaching the Rural Poor" strategy is a follow-up approach to the World Bank's "From Vision to Action" rural development strategy launched of the 1990s. This new strategy stresses practice, implementation, monitoring, and empowerment of the people it is designed to help.

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