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    The impact of HIV/AIDS on farming households in the Monze District of Zambia

    Centre for Development Studies, Bath University, 1997
    This paper focuses on how HIV/AIDS undermines household responsiveness to cope with crises, such as new agricultural policy reforms, HIV/AIDS, years of drought, and death of cattle. It uses a collection of 32 household case-studies. It investigates how caring for a chronically ill family member impinges on household production and alters labour allocation between genders and generations.
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    Business development, social security or patronage? Zambia’s Agricultural Credit Management Programme.

    Centre for Development Studies, Bath University, 1997
    The government that took power in Zambia in 1991 faced the challenge of fulfilling its promise to liberalise the economy while at the same time preventing any further increase in poverty and consolidating its hold on power. Part of its response was the launch, in 1994, of the Agricultural Credit Management Programme (ACMP).
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    Economic and social components of migration in two regions of Southern Province, Zambia

    Centre for Development Studies, Bath University, 1997
    Paper addresses the migration process in the Zambia's Southern Province. Until recently when droughts and cattle diseases have begun to plague the area, Southern Province was known for its ideal farming conditions.
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    Agricultural change under structural adjustment and other shocks in Zambia

    Centre for Development Studies, Bath University, 1997
    The agricultural sectors of many economies in Sub-Saharan Africa have been profoundly affected by policy changes comprising part of the wider process of structural adjustment. Government controls on exchange rates, interest rates, farm inputs and crop output prices have been liberalized.
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    Climatic Uncertainty and Natural Resource Policy: What Should the Role of Government Be?

    Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1998
    Recent concern about the consequences of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) has focused attention on how policy implications are interpreted and acted upon, and the role government has in monitoring and disseminating predictions of weather patterns.
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    Commercial Financing of Seasonal Input Use by Smallholders in Liberalised Agricultural Marketing Systems

    Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1998
    Paper reviews recent experience in providing seasonal credit, arguing that economic liberalisation leaves many questions unanswered, especially given the reluctance of commercial banks to provide this service, and weak private trading sectors in many countries.
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    Indonesia and the 1997-98 El Niño: Fire Problems and Long-Term Solutions

    Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1996
    The 1997-98 El Nino is among the strongest recorded and low rainfall in Indonesia set the conditions for widespread fires. At the same time, it is clearer during this particular El Niño than it has been in the past that many fires are being deliberately set.
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    Land Tenure and Food Security: A Review of Concepts, Evidence, and Methods

    Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1998
    Builds on a conceptual analysis of both land tenure and food security to set these various links in a dynamic framework that captures both the effects of access to resources on food security and the effects of food security on access to and use of resources.
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    Investing in Destruction: The World Bank and Biodiversity

    GRAIN, 1997
    The World Bank has been one of the most powerful forces behind genetic erosion around the world for the last 30 years. Here we review the impact of the Bank’s operations on biodiversity over that time, with an emphasis on agrobiodiversity, assess its current approach to biodiversity issues and where it is headed in the future. In particular, we look in detail at its agricultural vision.
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    Biopiracy, TRIPS and the Patenting of Asia's Rice Bowl: A collective NGO situationer on IPRs on rice

    GRAIN, 1998
    Nearly all Asian countries are committed to the WTO TRIPs treaty. This means that by the year 2000, Asian governments have to make intellectual property titles on seeds completely legal. This will favor transnational corporations who want to control agriculture and the world's food system through genetic engineering.

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