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  Gender and sustainable development in drylands: an analysis of field experiences

  Gender and Development, FAO Sustainable Dimensions, 2003

  With an estimated 40 percent of people in Africa, South America and Asia living in drylands, land degradation poses a significant threat to food security and survival. This report looks at the relationship between gender and dryland management based on an analysis of field experiences in Africa and Asia.
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  The profits of famine: Southern Africa's long decade of hunger

  Institute for Food and Development Policy, 2002

  This article explores the causes of famine and chronic malnutrition in Southern Africa.
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  In-kind transfers and household food consumption: implications for targeted food programs in Bangladesh

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002

  This paper examines the impact of wheat transfers and cash incomes on wheat consumption and wheat markets. It uses data from a 1998/99 survey of rural households in Bangladesh to econometrically estimate marginal propensities to consume (MPCs) out of wheat transfers in several distribution programs.
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  The maze of maize: improving input and output market access for poor smallholders in southern African region: the experience of Zambia and Malawi

  Department of Economics and Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2003

  This study evaluates the causes of the 2001-3 food crisis in Zambia and Malawi, looks at existing policies and makes recommendations to avoid future crises.The study differentiates causes of the crisis (the maize harvest shortfall in 2001, as well as to why the shortfall caused a food emergency) between: immediate causes, such as reduced plantings due to low food prices the p
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  The adoption and impact of agricultural biotechnology innovations in South Africa

  Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development, University of Pretoria, 2002

  South Africa is one of the few developing countries and probably the only one in Africa that has adopted some new biotechnology inputs, largely maize and cotton seeds, but what research is being performed to investigate the effects?
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  Domesticating global policy on GMOs: comparing China and India

  Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2003

  This IDS working paper compares the way in which two leading developing countries in the global debate on biotechnology have sought to translate policy commitments contained in international agreements on trade and biosafety into workable national policy. It is a complex story of selective interpretation, conflict over priorities and politicking at the highest levels of government.
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  Impacts of agricultural research on poverty: findings of an integrated economic and social analysis

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003

  This paper examines how agricultural technologies influence and are influenced by the diverse livelihood strategies, vulnerability context, relations of gender and power, and other conditions of the poor. It reports findings of a CGIAR research project including seven case studies of different types of agricultural research:
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  Ensuring food security via improvement in crop water productivity

  Challenge Program on Water and Food, 2003

  This first background paper from the CGIAR Water for Food Program seeks to identify research needs to increase crop water productivity, such that food security can be ensured and farmers’ livelihoods enhanced without increasing water diverted for agriculture.The paper proposes a number of priority topics for research on crop water management in the challenge Program on Water and Food, which wi
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  Impact of trade liberalisation on lives and livelihood of mountain communities in the northern areas of Pakistan

  South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics & Environment, 2002

  This paper examines the impacts of economic liberalisation, in particular the Agreement on Agriculture and TRIPs on mountain communities in northern Pakistan. It examines a) how these create new opportunities and threats affecting farmers rights, and b) what coping strategies have been developed in response.
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  Institutional learning and change in the CGIAR

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003

  This report summarizes papers presented and the discussions that took place at the workshop on Institutional Learning and Change in the CGIAR.

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