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  Recognising the diversity of smallholder farmers in Latin America: a new era in rural development

  Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2014

  Smallholder farming is the predominant sector in the rural economy of Latin America where it is characterised by large heterogeneity and represents an important source of rural employment and food security.
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  Afar Resilience Study

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2015

  This paper has been prepared in conjunction with a project for resilience building in Afar National Regional State, Ethiopia under the auspices of the Afar Region Disaster Prevention, Preparedness and Food Security Coordination Office and the Agriculture Knowledge Learning Documentation and Policy Project (AKLDP), Ethiopia which is implemented by the Feinstein International Center, Tufts Univer
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  Who owns the world's land? A global baseline of formally recognized indigenous and community land rights

  2015

  In recent years, there has been growing attention and effort towards securing the formal, legal recognition of land rights for Indigenous Peoples and local communities. Communities and Indigenous Peoples are estimated to hold as much as 65 percent of the world’s land area under customary systems, yet many governments formally recognize their rights to only a fraction of those lands.
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  Benefiting commercially from untapped plant natural resources: caper as a case study

  AgEcon Search, 2015

  Syria is considered an important natural habitat for wildlife plants and animals. This paper addresses one of the most agricultural sub-sectors that are still lacking adequate exploitation in Syria, which is the wild plants, focusing particularly on caper as a case study.
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  Food security in a climate perspective: what role could the private sector play regarding investment in smallholder agriculture in Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2014

  The purpose of this study is to discuss different ways of implementing the "Food Security in a Climate  Perspective  strategy 2013-15" in  relation  to  support  to  private  sector  development and  public-private  partnership  (PPP)  as  regards  agriculture,  climate  change  and  food se
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  Climate change impacts on livestock

  Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2015

  This working paper summarizes projected climate change impacts on livestock across Africa.
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  Irresponsible investment: AGRICA's broken development model in Tanzania

  The Oakland Institute, 2015

  Kilombero Plantations Ltd (KPL) is a 5,818 hectare (ha) rice plantation located in the heart of the fertile Kilombero Valley, Tanzania. In addition to developing a large-scale rice farm, KPL works with local smallholder farmers through an outgrower model based on System of Rice Intensification (SRI) technologies.
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  The role of producer organisations in rural advisory services

  2015

  This Position Paper was written to raise awareness of the roles of producer organisations in rural advisory services, and to contribute to discussions about how their effectiveness in these roles can be increased so that they contribute to improved livelihoods and
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  The impact of crop raiding by wild animals in communities surrounding the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania

  Academic Journals, 2014

  Crop damage is a serious source of conflict in communities adjacent to protected areas. Data on crop raiding were collected through questionnaires in villages at different distances from the Serengeti National Park in northern Tanzania.
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  Social capital and the decision to adopt new technology among rice farmers in the Philippines

  Philippine Journal of Development, 2010

  Conventional models predict that a rational farmer, given information of higher profits from a new technology relative to the old, would shift to the new technology. However, evidence abounds to the contrary.

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