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    Meeting the challenge of a new pro-poor agricultural paradigm

    Chronic Poverty Advisory Network, 2012
    Agriculture is a critical sector for poverty reduction. The majority of chronically poor households are engaged in agricultural activities, either as smallholders or labourers.
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    Farming’s climate smart future: placing agriculture at the heart of climate-change policy

    Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, 2011
    This paper places agriculture at the heart of climate change policy stating that climate change is already changing the face of farming. Increases in temperature, changing patterns of rainfall, more extreme droughts and floods, and the shifting distribution of pests and diseases can all be attributed in part to the increase in emissions of greenhouse gases resulting from human activities.
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    Environmental change and maize innovation in Kenya: exploring pathways in and out of maize

    STEPS Centre, Institute of Development Studies, 2009
    Maize is a socially, politically and economically staple crop in Kenya. This paper summarises the findings of the STEPS Environmental Change and Maize Innovation in Kenya project, which utilised maize as a window through which to explore differential responses to climate change.
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    Awareness and use of m-banking services in agriculture: The case of smallholder farmers in Kenya

    AgEcon Search, 2010
    Smallholder farmer access to agricultural finance has been a major constraint to agricultural commercialisation in developing countries, yet ICT revolution in Africa has brought an opportunity to ease that constraint. This study assesses the level of awareness and usage of mobile phone-based money transfer among smallholder farmers in Kenya.
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    Regulating biotechnology in China: the politics of biosafety

    2003
    This working paper looks at the politics of biosafety regulation and risk assessment in China’s growing biotech industry with respect to genetically modified (GM) crops.The central question examined in this study asks who has the authority and legitimacy to make decisions about risks of a new technology such as GM crops.To this purpose, the author explores:
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    Agricultural R&D policy: a tragedy of the international commons

    AgEcon Search, 2008
    Over the past 50 years, public agricultural research has contributed enormously to humanity. Nonetheless, the world has continued to collectively underinvest in agricultural research and development (R&D), and many countries have witnessed declining public support for agricultural R&D.
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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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    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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    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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    World Development Report 2008: agriculture for development

    World Development Report, World Bank, 2007
    Three out of every four poor people in developing countries live in rural areas, and most of them depend directly or indirectly on agriculture for their livelihoods. This year’s edition of the World Bank's World Development Report (WDR) highlights the importance of agriculture for achieving the Millennium Development Goal of halving extreme poverty and hunger by 2015.

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