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  A comparison of the social vulnerability of grain farmers in Mexico and Argentina

  Assessments of Impacts and Adaptations to Climate Change, 2006

  This paper focuses specifically on the various factors that differentiate farm enterprises and farm households, both in terms of their sensitivity to climate events and their capacity to adjust to changing climatic and market circumstances.
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  The participation of the poor in supermarkets and other distribution value chains

  International Finance Corporation, 2005

  The study assesses conditions for an increased involvement of the poor in the food value chains driven by supermarkets and other value-adding outlets. The trends of the different distribution chains were analysed through the gathering of secondary data.
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  Informal cross border food trade in southern Africa

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2004

  This brief highlights the issue of trade barriers in southern Africa and its impact on informal cross boarder trade in the region. The report shows that while there may be surpluses in neighbouring countries, food deficit countries such as Zimbabwe continue to experience a high grain prices due to import/export restrictions.
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  The impact of food aid on grain markets in Southern Africa: implications for tackling chronic vulnerability

  Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2006

  This briefing analyses concern that food aid may serve to undermine longer term development, through its disincentive effects on both agricultural production and markets.
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  Rural–urban marketing linkages: an infrastructure identification and survey guide

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2005

  Food supply and distribution systems in most developing countries are undergoing major changes following rapid urban population growth. This guide offers a simple planning methodology and framework to assist policy makers, non-government organisations and farmer groups to respond to these changes and ensure that rural producers have better access to markets for their products.
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  A system of drought insurance for poverty alleviation in rural areas

  Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical, Colombia, 2006

  This report provides tools for the development of crop insurance combined with micro finance to help smallholder farmers break out of the poverty trap. Although insurance is a well-established means to manage risk, crop insurance schemes have only rarely been implemented in the developing country, smallholder context.
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  Enhancing agricultural innovation: how to go beyond the strengthening of research systems

  World Bank, 2006

  How does innovation occur? Describing recent changes in the context of agricultural development, this paper signals a need to better examine how innovation is generated in the agricultural sector.
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  Linking farmers to markets

  Agricultural Support Systems Division, FAO, 2006

  This website/page presents a selection of brief case studies of ways in which small-scale farmers in developing countries have linked with markets, through their own efforts and with assistance from others.
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  Supermarkets, international trade and farmers in developing countries: evidence from Madagascar

  Cornell Food and Nutrition Policy Program, Cornell University, 2006

  Large supermarkets can have an increasing influence on developing countries, through foreign investments and through the imposition of their private standards.
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  Food security in the South Pacific island countries with special reference to the Fiji Islands

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2006

  This paper analyses the status of food security in several South Pacific Island countries, namely Cook Islands, Fiji Islands, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, and Vanuatu.

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