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  The state of agricultural commodity markets 2004

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2004

  The economies of many developing countries depend on commodity exports for a substantial portion of their export earnings.
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  Rural non-farm employment in India: access, income and poverty impact

  National Council of Applied Economic Research, India, 2002

  This paper attempts to assess the contribution of non-farm incomes to the total incomes of different sectors of the Indian rural population; examines the factors associated with employment in the non-farm sector; and studies the direct impact of the sector on agricultural wage rates.
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  Agroindustrialisation – an antidote to rural poverty?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Agroindustralisation – the transition towards more commercialised agriculture systems – has potential to provide the poor with off-farm employment, stimulate economic growth and promote security. However, there is a crucial need to provide poor rural people with appropriate skills and to overhaul currently inadequate systems of agricultural education and training (AET).
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  Informalisation of labour in South Africa’s fruit export industry

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  South Africa’s export fruit sector is buoyant but growers are under pressure from government legislation and standards imposed by international supermarket chains. The fruit industry is offering less permanent employment and using more temporary contract labour.
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  Food safety and agricultural health standards: challenges and opportunities for developing country exports

  World Bank, 2005

  The report summarises the findings of a World Bank research program on sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures, which was designed to improve understanding of an emerging set of policy and commercial issues in the area of food safety and agricultural health.Key findings presented in the report include:developing countries facing the challenges of rising health and food safety standard
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  Halving hunger: it can be done

  Millennium Project, 2005

  This final report of the UN Millennium Project Task Force on Hunger sets out it’s recommendations and interventions for achieving the millennium development goal of halving world hunger by 2015. The report initially examines progress to date with achieving the goal before defining the strategic approach which informs their plans to meet the targets by 2015.
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  The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2004

  Economic and Social Department, FAO, 2004

  Hunger and malnutrition cause tremendous human suffering, kill more than five million children every year, and cost developing countries billions of dollars in lost productivity and national income, according to the 2004 FAO annual hunger report.SOFI 2004 argues that the resources needed to effectively prevent this human and economic tragedy are minuscule when compared to the benefits and that
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  The TDCA, EPAs and Southern African regionalism

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004

  This paper looks at the potential problem that EPAs (Economic Partnership Agreements) may create a division in the Southern African region.
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  Are wealth transfers biased against girls?: Gender differences in land inheritance and schooling investment in Ghana's western region

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004

  This study attempts to analyse changing patterns of land transfers and schooling investments by gender over three generations in customary land areas of Ghana's Western Region.The authors find: that although traditional matrilineal inheritance rules deny landownership rights to women, women have increasingly acquired land through gifts and other means, thereby reducing the gender gap in
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  Lessons learned on trade and sustainable development

  Trade Knowledge Network, 2004

  Drawing on six years of research from the Trade Knowledge Network (TKN), this paper provides an analysis of the subset of the issues touched on by the TKN research.

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