Search
Searching with a thematic focus on Agriculture and food, Agricultural policy, Trade Policy
Showing 51-60 of 148 results
Pages
- Document
Building on success in African agriculture: are Kenya's horticultural exports a replicable success story?
International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004Summarising a background paper presented at the 'Successes in African Agriculture: Building for the Future' conference, this brief examines some of the factors that have contributed to the over six percent growth in Kenyan horticulture exports over the last 30 years.DocumentAssuring 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 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.DocumentBalancing interests
Syngenta Foundation, 2003This paper examines the overall process of change in the global regulation of plant genetic resources.DocumentFair and equitable benefit-sharing within the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture: the view of the Berne Declaration
Syngenta Foundation, 2003This paper presents the NGO viewpoint on how the benefit-sharing provisions of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (IT) should be practically applied for all parties concerned and what the main ingredients for the determination of the term “fair and equitable” with respect to benefit-sharing would be.The main argument of the paper is that it is erroneousDocumentEconomic development in Africa: trade performance and commodity dependence
United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2003This report examines the reasons for Africa’s poor performance and its declining share in world trade. It reviews the structure and composition of Africa’s trade, along with the associated problems of commodity dependence, and it discusses the factors influencing both Africa’s ability to diversify into more market-dynamic sectors and its competitiveness.DocumentThe world economic and social survey 2003
Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, 2003The World Economic and Social Survey is an annual analysis of the state of the world economy and emerging policy issues.DocumentThe effect of WTO and FTAA on agriculture and the rural sector in Latin America
International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004This paper examines two alternative versions of further trade liberalisation; one representing free trade world wide, the World Trade Organization (WTO), and the other a Western hemisphere free trade bloc, Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA).DocumentSweet like chocolate?: making the coffee and cocoa trade work for biodiversity and livelihoods
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, 2003This paper studies the cases of cocoa and coffee to assess whether their systems of production and trade meet the needs and aspirations of poor rural populations in the developing world, and minimize environmental damage. Findings include:Pages