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  Agricultural policies in OECD countries: monitoring and evaluation 2002

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2002

  Agricultural trade policy is at the centre of debate. The WTO is now re-negotiating the Agreement of Agriculture (AoA), while the European Union is working at the reform of the Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) which should be implemented by 2006.
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  Policy, national regulation, and international standards for GM foods

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003

  The adoption of biotechnology and the introduction of GM foods into the international marketplace has exacerbated an already difficult area of trade policy. As biotechnology increases productive capacity in various products, it also increases the need to trade. But diverging national regulations are increasingly impeding trade in these products creating market distortions.
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  Global research on underutilized crops: an assessment of current activities and proposals for enhanced cooperation

  Bioversity International, 2002

  This report has been produced to provide a succinct overview of the global research activities on underutilized crops. It is aimed at policy-makers, funding agencies and research administrators but it is hoped that it will also be of use to the scientific community. It finds that the number of countries with dedicated research programmes on underutilized crops is very small.
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  ICTs and rural development: review of the literature, current interventions and opportunities for action

  Overseas Development Institute, 2002

  This is a discussion paper on the role that ICTs potentially have to play in rural areas of the developing world. Its stated aim is to look beyond the current ‘digital divide’ debate which focuses on information disparities to assess the potential role of ICTs in the context of current rural development paradigms.
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  Farmer processes of experimentation and innovation: a review of the literature

  Participatory Research and Gender Analysis Program, CGIAR, 2002

  There is much contention over whether the actual process of farmer innovation is similar or different to formal science.
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  Food crops or cash crops in the northern communal areas of Namibia: setting a framework for a research agenda

  Namibian Economic Policy Research Unit, 2001

  Namibia is characterised by a dualistic agriculture sector with a strong commercial cash crop sector existing alongside a communal food crop sector, so which should be encouraged?
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  Trading out of poverty: WTO agreements and the West African agriculture

  The Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics - Michigan State University, 2002

  The interdependence between domestic, regional and foreign agricultural production and trade policies now plays a central role in the development of the agricultural sector in West Africa, and elsewhere in Africa.This report:studies WTO agreements and their implications for the West African economiesreviews the positions of West African countries on various WTO issuescompares th
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  Pathways of poverty reduction, rural development and transmission mechanisms in the Philippines

  Asian Development Bank Institute, 2001

  This paper reviews the experience of Philippine rural development. It specifically examines the influence of government policies and institutional arrangements on rural welfare outcomes.
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  Milking the CAP: how Europe's dairy regime is devastating livelihoods in the developing world

  Oxfam, 2002

  EU surpluses of milk and milk products are dumped on world markets using costly export subsidies, which destroy people’s livelihoods in some of the world’s poorest countries.Dairy dumping is a worrying problem because milk producers in developing countries cannot compete effectively with European milk producers who are heavily subsidised by their governments.
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  Technology and poverty reduction in Asia and the Pacific

  Asian Development Bank Institute, 2002

  This publication arises from the Seventh International Forum on Asian Perspectives. The Forum was jointly organized by the Asian Development Bank and the OECD Development Centre on 18-19 June 2001 in Paris with the theme "Technology and Poverty Reduction in Asia and the Pacific."The book brings together the papers and speeches presented at the Forum.

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