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  The limits of success: the case of the dairy sector in Kenya

  Future Agricultures Consortium, 2007

  This case study briefly explores the politics of the policy process behind the dairy sector in Kenya by examining the underlying policy narratives and the changing actors and networks associated with different interests.
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  Baseline survey of the 21 ISRDP and URP nodes

  Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2006

  This report is the third in a sequence that gives qualitative and quantitative data from socio-economic and demographic baseline studies in 21 South African areas (nodes) making up the Integrated Sustainable Rural Development Programme (ISRDP) and Urban Renewal Programme (URP).
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  Food aid in southern Africa: the WTO and beyond

  Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2006

  How can the countries of Southern Africa reduce the "dumping" effects of food aid on local markets while also ensuring its availability in emergencies?
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  Biofuels for transportation: global potential and implications for sustainable agriculture and energy in the 21st Century

  Worldwatch Institute, 2006

  This paper explores the potential of biofuels in reshaping agricultural development and addressing climate change.
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  Concentrated market power and agricultural trade

  WTO Watch Trade Observatory, IATP, 2006

  Much of the discussion of competition policy reflects a preoccupation with protecting consumers against the power of organised production. However, this paper argues that in agriculture, the dominance of major corporations enables them to undermine proper market functioning, with deleterious effects on farmers.
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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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  Livestock, disease, trade and markets: policy choices for the livestock sector in Africa

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006

  Seen for many years as a poor investment for development, livestock production issues are increasingly back on Africa's development agenda.
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  A note on local and regional procurement of food aid and its potential for transforming African grain markets

  Natural Resources Institute, UK, 2006

  When emergency food aid needs to be distributed, where should it come from?
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  Global agriculture and the Doha Round: market access is the key

  Economic Research Service, USDA, 2006

  Agricultural tariffs have proved one of the most difficult areas under World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations but, the Economic Research Service argues here, tariff reductions that improve market access are key to achieving the benefits of trade liberalisation.
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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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