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  The Eastern African ecoregion: towards sustainable and equitable fisheries access agreement in the western Indian Ocean region

  WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2005

  The document reports on a fisheries access agreements workshop that was conducted in June 2005 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. This workshop was the fourth in a series designed to promote sustainable access agreements and regional collaboration.
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  Promoting pro-poor growth: agriculture

  Development Assistance Committee, OECD, 2006

  In most poor countries growth in agriculture tends to be pro-poor, because it increases the value of poor people’s key assets of land and labour. Achieving internationally agreed poverty reduction targets therefore depends on boosting growth in agricultural sector productivity for the majority of countries.
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  Towards effective and sustainable seed relief activities

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2004

  This report is the outcome of a FAO workshop on "Effective and Sustainable Seed Relief Activities", convened 26–28 May 2003. The aim of the workshop was to improve the effectiveness of seed relief interventions and the contribution they can make to sustainable improvements in seed, food and livelihood security.
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  Quality and safety in the traditional horticultural marketing chains of Asia

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2006

  This paper examines what is done within horticultural supply chains in Asia to promote safety and quality. Processes of production, handling and transport are all considered in order to identify risks.
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  The fast track initiative: an assessment of a public-private partnership process on developing the fertiliser value chain in Tanzania

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2006

  This document aims to facilitate the establishment of a public/private partnership (PPP) in the fertiliser supply chain for Tanzania. Commissioned by Norad, the report assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the value chain, examines the input and output markets for agricultural commodities, and develops a proposal for planning a PPP at local level.
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  The Millennium Villages Project: a new approach to ending rural poverty in Africa?

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2006

  The Millennium Villages Project (MVP), an initiative of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, is an attempt at an integrated and bottom-up approach to getting African villages out of the poverty trap. It involves massive injections of capital targeted at, presently, a handful of villages, combining agricultural support with health, infrastructure and education interventions.
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  Food retailing, supermarkets and food security: highlights from Latin America

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2006

  With the advent of supermarkets in urban centres in many developing countries, the question of their impact on access to food and food security for the urban poor has arisen.
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  The many paths of cotton sector reform in Eastern and Southern Africa: lessons from a decade of experience

  The Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics - Michigan State University, 2006

  Cotton is a rare economic success story in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), generating cash incomes for millions of smallholder households and allowing the continent to capture a rising share of world trade in the crop.
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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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  Assessing market distortions affecting poverty reduction efforts on smallholder tobacco production in Tanzania

  Research on Poverty Alleviation, Tanzania, 2006

  Tobacco is one of Tanzania’s most important agricultural export crops as well as being an important source of employment and income in rural areas. However, this study finds that gross inefficiencies in the production-marketing system are distorting markets and reducing the profitability of tobacco production for smallholder farmers.

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