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    How important are market access issues for developing countries in the Doha agenda?

    Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade, Nottingham, 2002
    The aim of this paper is that of going "back to basics", focusing on the importance of market access issues for developing countries in the WTO negotiations begun in Doha in 2001.The paper attempts to address the following questions:will developing countries gain from further reducing their applied rates in agriculture?Would be in their interest adding industrial goods among the sec
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    Gender and agriculture in the information society

    International Service for National Agricultural Research, 2002
    Briefing paper on gender and ICT applications in agricultural and rural development in developing countries. Looks briefly at key issues and identifies main international initiatives in this area
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    Improving agricultural research at universities in Sub-Saharan Africa: a study guide

    International Service for National Agricultural Research, 2003
    Universities in sub-Saharan Africa have been widely criticized for being too academic and remote from the practical needs of the societies that they are supposed to serve. Yet these universities often include among their faculty a great proportion of their country’s most highly trained researchers, and some of the best research facilities.
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    U.S. dumping on world agricultural markets: can trade rules help farmers?

    WTO Watch Trade Observatory, IATP, 2003
    Dumping, the practice of selling products at prices far below their production costs, is a serious distortion for developing countries’ markets, because it threatens their food security, rural livelihood, poverty reduction and trade.This happens essentially for two reasons:imports of dumped products can drive developing country farmers out of their businessagricultural producers who
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    Measuring impacts of HIV/AIDS on rural livelihoods and food security

    Sustainable Development Department, FAO SD Dimensions, 2003
    The main purpose of this paper is to examine general patterns of the impacts of HIV/AIDS on rural livelihood assets and to propose a set of indicators to measure these impacts. A related objective is to identify indicators for evaluating the effectiveness of mitigation efforts.
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    Implementation issues of the Agreement on Agriculture and its implications for developing countries

    Economic Research Foundation, India, 2001
    The Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) was an attempt to impose discipline on global agricultural trade by removing trade distortions resulting from unrestricted use of production and export subsidies and import barriers, both tariff and non-tariff.
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    Climatic variability and cooperation in rangeland management: a case study from Niger

    CGIAR System-wide Program on Property Rights and Collective Action, 2002
    The purpose of this paper is to develop an empirical model that incorporates the impact of both rainfall variability and costly cooperation on land use, land allocation and herd mobility decisions, and to apply the model to data collected in southwest Niger. The paper concludes that:stock densities in sample communities do not support a conclusion of universal over- exploitation of pas
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    Cooperation, collective action and natural resources management in Burkina Faso: a methodological note

    CGIAR System-wide Program on Property Rights and Collective Action, 2002
    This paper presents a detailed description of the applied methodology used to study collective action in natural resource management (NRM).
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    The agreement on agriculture

    ActionAid International, 2002
    Agricultural trade is of vital importance for developing countries, accounting for a large share of GDP and being primary source of employment, livelihoods and basic food for the majority of population.
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    Food and trade: the WTO development challenge

    Canadian Council for International Co-operation, 2002
    In 1994 WTO members introduce agriculture into the multilateral trade negotiations in order to foster free trade in agricultural products and eliminate three types of trade barriers, such as domestic support, market access and export competition.

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