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  Will China's WTO accession worsen rural poverty?

  Center for Economic Policy Research, Australian National University (ANU), 2004

  Many fear China’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) will impoverish its farmers, via greater import competition in its agricultural markets. Using a numerical simulation model (GTAP), this paper explores the likely changes in agricultural and other product prices as a result of WTO accession.
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  Farm-level timber production: orienting farmers towards the market

  Unasylva, FAO, 2003

  This article explores the potential of farm-level timber production, specifically in non-contracted or open-market situations where farmers produce timber as one component (segregated or integrated) of their farm enterprise and search for markets in an ad hoc manner.
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  Biotechnology policy and regulation in China

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  This paper refutes claims that China has in recent years fundamentally altered its stance on GMOs in response to trade, food safety and environmental biosafety concerns.
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  An integrated economic and social analysis to assess the impact of vegetable and fishpond technologies on poverty in rural Bangladesh

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003

  This study examines the poverty reduction implications of the introduction of three different agricultural technologies by government and NGOs in three rural sites across Bangladesh.The technologies looked at are: new vegetable seeds developed by AVRDC (the Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center) that were introduced in Saturia by a local NGO to women owning small amounts of land, base
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  Malawi's food crisis: causes and solutions

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2003

  This brief report examines the assumptions that the 2001-2003 food crisis in Malawi was the result of poor management of grain reserves, corruption and a severe drought. It argues that these often-cited ‘causes’ are partial explanations at best.
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  Sweet like chocolate?: making the coffee and cocoa trade work for biodiversity and livelihoods

  Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, 2003

  This 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:
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  Agricultural trade

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 1999

  This briefing (3rd in the IDS Trade and Development Background Briefings) explores issues around agricultural trade, focusing on the effects of the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture on developing countries and on key issues for the next round of negotiations.Claims include:the Agreement on Agriculture began the process of establishing a framework of trade rules for agriculture simi
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  Effects of North American Free Trade Agreement on agriculture and the rural economy

  Economics, Statistics and Market Information System, USDA Economics and Statistics System, 2002

  This report evaluates the impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on U.S. agriculture and the rural economy. The report begins with a broad overview of the impact of NAFTA on U.S. agriculture, and follows with a more detailed account of the effects on a number of commodities.Findings include:U.S.
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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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  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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