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    Plant variety protection in developing countries: A tool for designing a Sui Generis plant variety protection system: An alternative to UPOV 1991

    2015
    A new tool to assist developing countries in designing a “custom made” plant variety protection suitable for the seed and agricultural systems that prevail in developing countries has been published by an international group of NGOs.   It was presented on the occasion of the Sixth Meeting of the Governing Body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food
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    The effects of exchange rate policy on Cameroon’s agricultural competitiveness

    African Economic Research Consortium, 1996
    This paper analyses the effects of trade and exchange rate policies on Cameroon's agriculture, providing theoretical models and formulas for empirical analysis.
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    Common futures: India and Africa in partnership

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2015
    Africa with its 54 countries is over ten times the size of India but has roughly the same population -- just over one billion people. The demographic structures are also very similar. In India more than fifty percent of the population is below the age of twenty five and in most African states, half or more of thepopulation is under twenty five years of age.
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    Chinese agricultural investment in Africa: motives, actors and modalities

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2015
    The agricultural link between China and Africa can be traced back to the late 1950s when China started to provide agricultural aid to Africa. Agricultural aid has remained an integral part of Chinese African aid and constitutes a significant component of China’s contemporary, more diversified agricultural engagement with the continent.
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    An estimation of tariff pass-through in Tunisia

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2015
    It is important to evaluate the net welfare effects of liberalisation policies in specific countries, yet a first step to accomplish this task is to analyse the extent to which changes in trade barriers are transmitted to changes in domestic prices.
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    Benefiting commercially from untapped plant natural resources: caper as a case study

    AgEcon Search, 2015
    Syria is considered an important natural habitat for wildlife plants and animals. This paper addresses one of the most agricultural sub-sectors that are still lacking adequate exploitation in Syria, which is the wild plants, focusing particularly on caper as a case study.
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    Realising the promise of agriculture for Africa’s transformation

    Small Island Economies - CTA Brussels, 2014
    The transformation of the African agri-business sector is a key challenge to achieve food security and economic development. A differentiated approach to partnerships, based on the development of competitive local private sectors, is essential to boosting agricultural development in Africa.
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    Fighting against illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU): successes from ACP countries

    Small Island Economies - CTA Brussels, 2014
    Combatting illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing (IUU) has emerged as a regional and national priority in the European Union and the ACP, and is increasingly the subject of collaboration in the context of both EU and ACP relations, and intra-regional or bilateral relations between countries.
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    Building resilience of SIDS through agricultural trade and agribusiness development

    Small Island Economies - CTA Brussels, 2014
    Small islands face a greater risk of marginalisation due to the combined adverse consequences of their small size, remoteness from large markets and high economic vulnerability to economic and natural shocks beyond domestic control. This reader gives an overview of the main challenges and opportunities for agribusiness development in SIDS.
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    Agricultural transformation in Africa: building on successes

    Small Island Economies - CTA Brussels, 2014
    Agriculture remains the major sector in African economies. Even if accounting for only about one-fifth of African GDP, a great number of Africans make their living out of the primary sector. Agriculture in Africa is characterized by an high degree of diversity where big exploitation co-exist with a large share of small scale producers.

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