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  Biofuels, agriculture and poverty reduction

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2007

  The development of biofuels has generated vigorous debate on economic and environmental grounds. This paper assesses the potential impacts of biofuels on poverty reduction. It argues that the potential is large, whether through employment, wider growth multipliers or energy price effects.
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  Land in Africa: market asset or secure livelihood?

  Human Settlements Programme, 2004

  This document summarises the proceedings from a conference organised by International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) , Natural Resource insitute (NRI) and the Royal African Society in November 2004.The conference brought together a wide range of interest groups including, African policy makers, academics and civil society representatives, as well as representatives of the private
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  Constraints and opportunities of horticulture production and marketing in Eastern Ethiopia

  Drylands Coordination Group, Norway, 2007

  What are the major opportunities and constraints to improving horticultural production and . marketing in Ethopia?
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  Biofuels for transportation: global potential and implications for sustainable agriculture and energy in the 21st Century

  Worldwatch Institute, 2006

  This paper explores the potential of biofuels in reshaping agricultural development and addressing climate change.
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  Livestock, disease, trade and markets: policy choices for the livestock sector in Africa

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006

  Seen for many years as a poor investment for development, livestock production issues are increasingly back on Africa's development agenda.
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  Resource-poor farmers in South India: on the margins or frontiers of globalisation

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2006

  It is often argued that an important reason why globalisation may lead to GDP growth but fail to reduce poverty is because the poor are unable to participate in new market opportunities and are thus marginalised.
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  Towards effective and sustainable seed relief activities

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2004

  This report is the outcome of a FAO workshop on "Effective and Sustainable Seed Relief Activities", convened 26–28 May 2003. The aim of the workshop was to improve the effectiveness of seed relief interventions and the contribution they can make to sustainable improvements in seed, food and livelihood security.
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  The fast track initiative: an assessment of a public-private partnership process on developing the fertiliser value chain in Tanzania

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2006

  This document aims to facilitate the establishment of a public/private partnership (PPP) in the fertiliser supply chain for Tanzania. Commissioned by Norad, the report assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the value chain, examines the input and output markets for agricultural commodities, and develops a proposal for planning a PPP at local level.
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  The Millennium Villages Project: a new approach to ending rural poverty in Africa?

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2006

  The Millennium Villages Project (MVP), an initiative of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, is an attempt at an integrated and bottom-up approach to getting African villages out of the poverty trap. It involves massive injections of capital targeted at, presently, a handful of villages, combining agricultural support with health, infrastructure and education interventions.
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  The many paths of cotton sector reform in Eastern and Southern Africa: lessons from a decade of experience

  The Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics - Michigan State University, 2006

  Cotton is a rare economic success story in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), generating cash incomes for millions of smallholder households and allowing the continent to capture a rising share of world trade in the crop.

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