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    Organic certification schemes: managerial skills and associated costs

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2007
    Certification is critical in organic markets as it enables organic producers to access new export and domestic market opportunities and premium prices due to the fact that organic quality adds value to products. Whilst in developed countries, economic incentives and enabling policies and regulations have
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    Suicide seeds? biotechnology meets the developmental state

    Center for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania, 2008
    This article examines the biotechnology debate in India focusing on transgenic seeds. The author presents the rifts and battles in this sector, highlighting the influence of farmers, journalists, environmental activists, government officials, and the international community.
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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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    OECD agricultural trade reforms: impact on India's prices and producers' welfare

    2007
    This paper examines the possible impact of liberalisation of agriculture trade on small holder farmers in India. The paper analyses the impacts of removing agriculture subsidies in the European Union and United States and of import trade tariffs in India.
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    Structural shift in demand for food: projections for 2020

    Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 2006
    Over the past two decades, even the poor in India have shifted their consumption away from cereals towards other foods. What are the implications of this for India’s future food security? This study reviews trends in per capita consumption of cereals and non-cereals to identify the factors that affect changes in cereal consumption, and compares future demand with supply projections.
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    Resource-poor farmers in South India: on the margins or frontiers of globalisation

    World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2006
    It is often argued that an important reason why globalisation may lead to GDP growth but fail to reduce poverty is because the poor are unable to participate in new market opportunities and are thus marginalised.
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    Agricultural R&D in the developing world: too little, too late?

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2006
    Are developing countries are at risk of becoming technological orphans?
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    Farmers’ suicides in Maharashtra

    Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2006
    The suicide mortality rate for farmers in the Indian State of Maharashtra has quadrupled in the last decade, according to this research paper. Is agricultural dumping by the United States, declining agricultural investment, and a broader government withdrawal from agriculture driving smallholder farmers into desperation?
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    Migration and home gardens in the Brahmaputra Valley, Assam, India

    Journal of Ecological Anthropology, 2005
    Based on household surveys conducted in 37 villages in northeast India, this paper compares home garden productivity and economic return among residents and immigrants of different ethnic groups. It explores the hypothesis that residents had an advantage over immigrants in maximising gains from home gardens resources.
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    What's keeping the apples away? addressing the market integration issue

    Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2005
    India is a major producer of apples with only bananas and mangos having a larger area under cultivation in the country as a whole. In recent years outside imports of apples have provided real competition to domestic producers.

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