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  How can markets respond better to the 2005/06 food crisis: evidence from Zambia

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

  Despite massive financial contributions towards poverty alleviation, the frequency and severity of sub-Saharan food crises appear to be increasing. Why is this?
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  The future of Norway’s GSP system

  Norwegian Institute for International Affairs, 2005

  This report provides a comprehensive review of the Norwegian Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) system, including options for change.The main recommendations from the report include:for manufacturing, tariffs should be reduced to zero on an MFN basis; i.e.
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  Financial vulnerability of maize growers in Uganda: an evaluation of poverty reduction efforts through economic liberalization policies

  Eldis Document Store, 2005

  Cultivating maize in Uganda is a silent loss-making farming venture.
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  What's keeping the apples away? addressing the market integration issue

  Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2005

  India is a major producer of apples with only bananas and mangos having a larger area under cultivation in the country as a whole. In recent years outside imports of apples have provided real competition to domestic producers.
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  A territorial based approach to agro-enterprise development

  Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical, Colombia, 2005

  Global commodity and consumption trends are increasingly marginalising rural agricultural producers, with particularly negative effects on those distant from markets.
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  Making agricultural trade reform work for the poor

  International Food and Agricultural Trade Policy Council, USA, 2005

  This paper brings together what is known about the link between agricultural trade reform and poverty alleviation, and examines how developing countries can successfully manage to open their economies while reducing poverty. It highlights the channels that link agricultural growth, rural development and poverty alleviation with trade.
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  Conspiracy of silence: old and new directions on commodities

  Oxfam, 2005

  The paper explores the so-called "commodity problem", which is often described as a combination of declining terms of trade and price volatility.
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  Malawi’ s tobacco sector: standing on one strong leg is better than on none

  World Bank in Africa, 2003

  Tobacco plays a central role in Malawi’s economy, accounting for 60% of its exports, 13% of its GDP, and 23% of its total tax base. This paper highlights the challenges facing the tobacco industry and Malawian policy-makers and outlines options for moving forward in addressing those challenges. Tobacco will remain Malawi's dominant instustry in the medium term (i.e.
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  Forthcoming changes in the EU banana and sugar markets: a menu ofoptions for an effective EU transitional package

  Overseas Development Institute, 2005

  Preferential access under the EU’s Sugar and Banana Protocols has supported large income transfers to a number of ACP countries. These transfers will be reduced under proposed reforms to the EU’s sugar and banana markets which are due to take place at the end of 2005.
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  EU sugar reform; the implications for the development of LDCs

  Department for International Development, UK, 2005

  This study argues that the granting of unlimited duty-free access under the EBA (Everything But Arms) Agreement will coincide with reform of the EU sugar regime, which is expected to lead to significant price reductions in the EU market.

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