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Assuring food and nutrition security in Africa by 2020: a way forward from the 2020 Africa Conference
2020 Vision for Food, Agriculture and the Environment, International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004This report is the draft outcome document of the Conference on Assuring Food and Nutrition Security in Africa by 2020 held from 1-3 April 2004.DocumentThe agriculture, nutrition, and HIV/AIDS connections in developing countries
Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2003This essay, invited by USAID, explores the connections between rural poverty, undernutrition, and HIV and AIDS in developing nations and aims to suggest specific cross-sector investment strategies that can be used more effectively to combat the three. It argues that poverty is principally a rural problem, and that undernutrition and HIV and AIDS are closely associated with rural poverty.DocumentEmerging issues in science and technology for food security and sustainable development in Africa
UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2003This paper discusses how current production methods and technologies cannot solve the immense food insecurity problems in Africa even if more land is brought under cultivation.DocumentAgricultural biotechnology development, policy and impacts in China
Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2002China is developing the largest plant biotechnology capacity outside North America and an impressive list of genetically modified (GM) crops under trial. However, underlying these achievements is a growing concern among policy-makers about the impact of the global biotechnology debate on China's agricultural trade.DocumentInnovation and policy process: case of transgenic sweet potato in Kenya
Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2002Biotechnology is being integrated into the existing science and technology policy process in Kenya. This process is embedded in the country's history of agricultural development, characterised by conventional technology, public goods research and centralised and hierarchical organisation.DocumentThe EC traceability and equivalence rules in light of the SPS Agreement: a review of the main legal issues
Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, 2003This study sets forth the major legal issues in connection with the WTO legality of the European Union’s sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) legislation as well as the traceability rules to come into force on 1 January 2005.DocumentStudy of the consequences of the application of sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures on ACP countries
Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, 2003This study examines the European Union’s Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) legislation in order to identify what measures related to consumer health and safety in the area of foodstuffs act as barriers to imports from ACP countries.DocumentSmallholder access to biotechnology: case of Rhizobium inocula in Kenya
Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2002This paper explores the knowledge gap between science and production that the advent of biotechnology has made apparent in the smallholder agriculture.DocumentPolicy research and African agriculture: time for a dose of reality?
Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2004This paper argues that, for the rural poor in Africa, market failure is more the norm than the exception. Despite the growing attention given to market imperfections of the kind highlighted by New Institutional Economics, much policy advice on the agricultural economy in African countries remains based on unrealistic analysis and assumptions.DocumentNon-farm income, household welfare, and sustainable land management in a less-favoured area in the Ethiopian highlands
Department of Economics and Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2004This study looks at the impact of improved access to non-farm income on household welfare, agricultural production, conservation investments and land degradation in form of soil erosion.The results indicate that access to low-wage off-farm income is restricted by lack of employment opportunities since households otherwise would have engaged in more off-farm wage employment than observed.MainPages