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  Joint forest planning and management in the eastern plains of Karnataka: a rapid assessment

  Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Environment and Development, Bangalore, 2005

  Joint Forest Management (JFM) has become the key concept through which forest generation activities are being implemented in most parts of India.
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  Constraints and opportunities of horticulture production and marketing in Eastern Ethiopia

  Drylands Coordination Group, Norway, 2007

  What are the major opportunities and constraints to improving horticultural production and . marketing in Ethopia?
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  Reclaiming policy space: lessons from Malawi’s fertiliser subsidy programme

  Future Agricultures Consortium, 2007

  This case study argues that political context matters in agricultural development issues using the fertiliser subsidy scheme in Malawi as an example.
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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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  Another silver bullet for Africa?: Bill Gates to resurrect the Rockefeller Foundation's decaying green revolution

  GRAIN, 2006

  Here GRAIN explores the debates around a ”Green Revolution” for Africa in light of recent announcements by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation and the World Food Programme.
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  Indigenous knowledge on the South African landscape: potentials for agricultural development

  Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa, 2006

  Development needs to start with what people know and build on their knowledge and experiences.
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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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  Agricultural science and technology policy for growth and poverty reduction

  International Service for National Agricultural Research, 2005

  Examining public-private partnerships, the authors speculate that these may become a dominant mode of funding for agricultural research in Latin America.
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  Green revolution in Africa

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2005

  In light of high forecasted population growth rates for Africa over the next decade, this report argues that the need to generate a uniquely African Green Revolution is long overdue. Analysing anticipated development trends in African agriculture, food and nutrition, inputs and natural resource use, the report outlines some challenges and the way forward for African agricultural development.
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  Agroecology and the struggle for food sovereignty in the Americas

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2006

  The authors of this book believe that the search for a more ‘liveable world’ must find alternatives to the corporate capture of food, land, biodiversity and the environment. This needs to build on the potential offered by more autonomous local food systems and organisations.

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