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  Copenhagen Consensus: hunger and malnutrition

  Copenhagen Consensus, 2004

  This paper examines the economic aspects of chronic hunger and malnutrition arguing that better nutrition can both reduce the economic drain on poor societies and help them become wealthier by increasing individuals' productivity.The paper begins be reviewing the scale and nature of the problem, for example by examining the numbers of people being affected as well as the socio-economic breakdow
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  Making co-ownership work?: helping land reform beneficiaries access land and financial resources through equity sharing in South Africa

  BASIS Collaborative Research Support Program, 2004

  This brief paper argues that through co-ownership, co-operatives offer a significant pathway for poor beneficiaries to secure land, wealth and financial resources - with benefits being augmented through sound institutions, human capital development and grant support. In reviewing Farm Worker Equity Share (FWES) schemes the authors recommend a combination of institutional practices that can be
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  Shifting paradigms in international animal health standards: the need for comprehensive standards to enable commodity-based trade

  Institutional and Policy Support Team, AU, 2004

  According to international standards on animal health, many developing countries have been trying to eradicate important livestock diseases and thereby improve access to global markets for animals and animal products. But is the eradication of these diseases really feasible in countries with scarce resources?
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  Perspectives on agricultural transformation: a view from Africa

  Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa, 2004

  This book provides a predominantly African perspective on the nature of the agricultural development crisis, and the challenges posed by globalisation, biotechnology, policy reform, and widespread poverty.
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  Informal employment in Siberian villages

  Economic Sociology Electronic Journal, Russian Federation, 2001

  The decade of agrarian reforms in the post-Soviet Russia has failed to develop an efficient multilayered structure of the agricultural sector and has also led to the deterioration of living standards of most agrarian workers.
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  Financing agricultural marketing: The Asian experience

  Agricultural Marketing, FAO, 2004

  Reporting an exploratory study, this paper looks at how traders and processors of grains and horticultural produce in Asia finance their marketing activities and how they use that finance.The paper concludes that lack of working capital is probably not a major constraint to the functioning of agricultural marketing systems in Asia.
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  Building on success in African agriculture: are Kenya's horticultural exports a replicable success story?

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004

  Summarising 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.
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  Assuring 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, 2004

  This 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.
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  The world economic and social survey 2003

  Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, 2003

  The World Economic and Social Survey is an annual analysis of the state of the world economy and emerging policy issues.
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  Organic agriculture and rural poverty alleviation: potential and best practices in Asia

  Poverty and Development Division, UNESCAP, 2002

  This document studies the rapidly developing organic farming sector in Asia. It looks at concepts and practices, export potential, market developments and, first and foremost, success cases where small and marginal farmers in the rural areas were able to increase their livelihood through organic agriculture.

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