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  Farmers’ suicides in Maharashtra

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2006

  The suicide mortality rate for farmers in the Indian State of Maharashtra has quadrupled in the last decade, according to this research paper. Is agricultural dumping by the United States, declining agricultural investment, and a broader government withdrawal from agriculture driving smallholder farmers into desperation?
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  Chain empowerment: supporting African farmers to develop markets

  Royal Tropical Institute, 2006

  By way of case studies and comparisons, this book aims to show how smallholder farmers can earn more from their crops and livestock by leveraging the value chains they are already part of. Two basic strategies are presented which groups of farmers can use to improve their incomes: vertical and horizontal integration.
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  Agriculture and achieving the Millennium Development Goals

  World Bank, 2006

  This report argues that agriculture and rural development, directly and/or indirectly, play a crucial role for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
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  Public-private partnerships for innovation-led growth in agrichains: a useful tool for development in Latin America?

  International Service for National Agricultural Research, 2005

  Based on a study of 124 public-private partnerships in agricultural innovation in Latin America, this paper suggests that no empirical typology of partnerships can be constructed but that these rather are used to generate agricultural innovations in many different ways.
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  Getting a handle on high value agriculture

  Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical, Colombia, 2005

  This annual report examines the obstacles to, and rewards of, diversifying into higher value crops or growing traditional commodities that have been transformed into money earners through value adding or sales to niche markets. The issues discussed in this report include:how to help small farmers cash in on the global appetite for high-value products.
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  Green revolution in Africa

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2005

  In light of high forecasted population growth rates for Africa over the next decade, this report argues that the need to generate a uniquely African Green Revolution is long overdue. Analysing anticipated development trends in African agriculture, food and nutrition, inputs and natural resource use, the report outlines some challenges and the way forward for African agricultural development.
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  Agroecology and the struggle for food sovereignty in the Americas

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2006

  The authors of this book believe that the search for a more ‘liveable world’ must find alternatives to the corporate capture of food, land, biodiversity and the environment. This needs to build on the potential offered by more autonomous local food systems and organisations.
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  Within, and beyond, territories: a comparison of village land use management and livelihood diversification in Burkina Faso and southwest Niger

  Simon Batterbury, Personal Website, 2005

  This chapter contrasts two cases in which the ‘presence’ and ‘loss’ of international development project assistance in the rural Sahel has had impact on the development of livelihood strategies: the process of village land use management in Burkina Faso supported by an international development donor the process of livelihood diversification in Nig
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  Institutional bottlenecks for agricultural development: a stock-taking exercise based on evidence from sub-Saharan Africa

  OECD Development Centre, 2006

  This paper presents a framework to analyse institutional bottlenecks for agricultural development in sub-Saharan Africa. It identifies key institutional issues for agriculture, and finds that the historically poor performance of African agriculture can be attributed not only to a lack of natural resources and extractive policies, but also fundamental institutional bottlenecks.
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  Anticipating and responding to drought emergencies in southern Africa: lessons from the 2002-2003 experience

  The Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics - Michigan State University, 2005

  The paper suggests that nutritional monitoring needs to be complemented by information on the sustainability of household coping behaviour. Unfortunately, very little such information has become publicly available. Food prices and market impacts varied widely across the region.

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