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The Debate on Genetically Modified Organisms: Relevance for the South
Overseas Development Institute, 1998Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are at the centre of extraordinary controversy. The implications of these debates must be addressed by policy makers in the South. Concerns about MOs include environmental impact, food safety, the control of agricultural technology, and the direction of agricultural change.DocumentStructure and conduct of major agricultural input and output markets and response to reforms by rural households in Madagascar
International Food Policy Research Institute, 1998Interim reports on adjustment in the input trading sector; price behavior in local markets; and adjustment farm households have been published and are available online.DocumentThe Social Impact of Adjustment in Tanzania in the 1980s: Economic Crisis and Household Survival Strategies
Internet Journal of African Studies, 1996Provides a theoretical discussion of the key issues of the social impact and a brief account of the Tanzanian economy and the various dimensions of the economic crisis of the 1980s. Then discusses the social impact of adjustment programmes in Tanzania with regard to health, nutrition, education, pressure on women, and responses to the crisis and adjustment . [author]DocumentImplications of Climatic Variability for Food Security in The Southern African Development Community
Internet Journal of African Studies, 1997Although it cannot be claimed irrefutably that global changes in climate have already occurred, much of the recent research suggests that the rise in the proportion of "greenhouse gases" in the atmosphere may already have set in train some irreversible changes. Certainly, there seems to be some evidence of increasing climate variability.DocumentThe right to food in theory and practice
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1999FAO (ed), contributions from different authors from UN, academia and NGO-sector. In this publication, the rights related to food are examined from both the human rights and the operational points of view. Distinguished human rights expert A.DocumentWhat Role for Tropical Forests in Climate Change Mitigation? The Case of Costa Rica
Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 1999Land and forestry-based activities could in principle play important roles as climate change mitigation strategies. In practice, however, several questions have been raised about their feasibility. Therefore, understanding the processes and determinants of land use changes is critical.DocumentCountry Profiles of Land Tenure: Africa, 1996
Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1998These Country Profiles represent a new edition of a continent-wide set of profiles prepared and published by the Land Tenure Center in 1986. This new volume reflects a decade of intensive work on the continent by LTC and a very considerable deepening of knowledge and understanding of land tenure issues in Africa.DocumentIndian experience on household food and nutrition security
Gender and Food Security, FAO, 1994Covers the production, availability and consumption of cereals, which are known to contribute around 70 percent of the energy and protein requirement and which happen to be the first objective to be attained by a poor household.DocumentWhat Makes Agricultural Intensification Profitable for Mozambican Smallholders?
Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 1998Summarizes an appraisal of input utilization and marketing in Mozambique, focusing on the following research questions: What are current smallholder yields for major commodities, and what is the potential for increasing yields through the use of improved technologies?DocumentIncentives for Fertilizer Use in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review of Empirical Evidence on Fertilizer Response and Profitability
Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 1998Why is fertilizer not yet fulfilling its potential as a major stimulus to agricultural productivity in SSA?Pages