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  Smallholder identities and social networks: the challenge of improving productivity and welfare

  Strategies and Analyses for Growth and Access, 2004

  This paper challenges economists’ general neglect of the social and psychological context in which smallholders make agricultural production decisions.
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  Macroeconomic growth, sectoral quality of growth and poverty in developing countries: measure and application to Burkina Faso

  Development Policy Research Unit, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2004

  This paper points out that in spite of economic growth, poverty is still prevalent in Burkina Faso. However, poverty rates vary depending on the poverty measure used. This paper discusses the impact of doing growth-inequality-poverty analysis with two types of data sources, such as National Accounts (NAM) versus Households Surveys (HS).
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  Are Economic Partnership Agreements likely to promote or constrain regional integration in southern Africa?: options, limits and challenges Botswana, Mauritius and Mozambique are facing

  Namibian Economic Policy Research Unit, 2004

  The vast majority of the South African Development Community (SADC) and Common Market of Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) countries belong to the group of African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states. As such they are also members of the Cotonou Agreement which grants Europe’s former colonies preferential, non-reciprocal access to the EU market.
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  Reaching Millennium Goals: How well does agricultural productivity growth reduce poverty?

  International Labour Organization, 2004

  In the context of only modest growth in agricultural output in recent years and current doubts over the achievability of the Millennium Goals on poverty reduction, this ILO paper makes a broad case for reinstating the role of agriculture in the internal poverty reduction strategies of developing countries.The paper sets out to show that agricultural growth is critical for poverty reduction both
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  Analysis of farmers’ preferences for development intervention programs: a case study of subsistence farmers from Eastern Ethiopian highlands

  Development Policy Research Unit, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2004

  The paper looks at farmers’ perception of the relevance of different development intervention programs. It states that that drought, soil erosion and, shortage of cultivable land are high priority agricultural production problems for farmers.
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  Alleviating rural poverty through efficient small holders farming systems in Ethiopia: relevance of macro policies with ground realities

  Development Policy Research Unit, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2004

  The findings from this study, conducted in Ethiopia, demonstrate ways in which farm income may be increased (or rural poverty may be reduced) through an optimal allocation of resources and appropriate choice of enterprise pattern.In reviewing the linkages between poverty related macro policies and strategies, the author draws out the implications of the ground realities of smallholders through
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  India’s national agricultural policy: a critique

  Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2004

  The National Agricultural Policy (NAP) document released by the Government of Indian in 2000 aimed to attain an agricultural output growth rate in excess of 4 percent per annum, based on efficient use of resources, and sought to achieve this growth in a sustainable and equitable manner.This paper argues that (by 2004) no serious action had been initiated on most of the NAP’s proposals, and blam
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  Identifying policy determinants of food security response and recovery in the SADC Region: the case of the 2002 food emergency

  Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2003

  Many southern African countries faced a serious food security crises in mid-2002.
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  Investigating the impacts of climate change on Chinese agriculture

  Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, UK, 2004

  This paper reports on a regional climate change model developed to predict the impacts of climate change of Chinese agriculture. The model, developed by the UK’s Hadley Centre for Climate Change Predication and Research, took into account climate and soil variables, and the influence of higher atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide on plant metabolism.
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  Blood and soil: land, politics and conflict prevention in Zimbabwe and South Africa

  International Crisis Group, 2004

  This report offers a detailed analysis of the different challenges of land reform in both Zimbabwe and South Africa. The report looks at the history of land ownership and policy in both countries.For Zimbabwe, it offers practical policy suggestions for ways forward by identifying the contours of a post-Mugabe land approach.

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