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  The maze of maize: improving input and output market access for poor smallholders in southern African region: the experience of Zambia and Malawi

  Department of Economics and Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2003

  This study evaluates the causes of the 2001-3 food crisis in Zambia and Malawi, looks at existing policies and makes recommendations to avoid future crises.The study differentiates causes of the crisis (the maize harvest shortfall in 2001, as well as to why the shortfall caused a food emergency) between: immediate causes, such as reduced plantings due to low food prices the p
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  The adoption and impact of agricultural biotechnology innovations in South Africa

  Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development, University of Pretoria, 2002

  South Africa is one of the few developing countries and probably the only one in Africa that has adopted some new biotechnology inputs, largely maize and cotton seeds, but what research is being performed to investigate the effects?
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  BT cotton in South Africa: adoption and the impact on farm incomes amongst small-scale and large scale farmers

  Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development, University of Pretoria, 2002

  South Africa is one of few developing countries, and the only one in Africa that has adopted genetically modified crops for commercial production, so why has this policy been pursued, and with what effects?
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  Agricultural technology adoption: major steps to development and market access

  Global Development Network, 2003

  Is agricultural technology able to lead to economic development through more productive techniques and can small-scale farmers efficiently and significantly improve their production, feed themselves and enter into competition in a free market?
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  Reciprocity in the FTAA: the roles of market access, institutions and negotiating capacity

  2003

  Latin American countries can benefit from the FTAA through improved access to the region’s markets, and enhanced growth prospects through strengthening basic economic institutions.
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  Capacity development in Ghana’s plant genetic resources centre: an evaluation

  Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, 2003

  This study evaluated capacity development results and processes at the Plant Genetic Resources Centre (PGRC) in Ghana and examined the roles of various external agents in that development, particularly the International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI) and the Genetic Resources Network for West and Central Africa (GRENEWECA).
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  Poverty and environmental degradation in the drylands: an overview of problems

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2003

  This paper seeks to analyse some of the problems of degradation persisting in the dryland regions with particular reference to Sub-Saharan Africa, and describe the processes that aim to tackle them.It identifies the threat to dryland regions as a complex mixture of degrading soils, continuous exposures to frequent droughts and political and economic marginalisation which is putting poor people
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  Conservation farming in Zambia

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003

  Examines the effectiveness of the ‘conservation farming (CF) system’, a package of agronomic practices for smallholders introduced to Zambia in 1996 and advocated by a range of stakeholders from donors, government and private sector.The system involves:dry-season land preparation using minimum tillage methods retention of crop residue from the prior harvest (no burning)planting
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  Ensuring food security via improvement in crop water productivity

  Challenge Program on Water and Food, 2003

  This first background paper from the CGIAR Water for Food Program seeks to identify research needs to increase crop water productivity, such that food security can be ensured and farmers’ livelihoods enhanced without increasing water diverted for agriculture.The paper proposes a number of priority topics for research on crop water management in the challenge Program on Water and Food, which wi
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  Globalisation and the developing countries: emerging strategies for rural development and poverty alleviation

  International Service for National Agricultural Research, 2002

  This on-line book reviews the impact of globalisation on a range of issues, including the effects of changing global rules and regulations on the economies of developing countries in general, and their agricultural sectors in particular. The book divides into four main sections, and includes chapters by various authors.Part I: globalisation from the perspective of the South.

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