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Trade and poverty: background briefing
Department for International Development, UK, 2002The reduction in barriers to international trade can increase and create incomes for the poor and provide more resources to fight poverty.This paper:describes the impact of liberalisation on household and individual income levels identifies three channels through which trade reform affects poverty, that is prices, enterprise and government revenueanalyses how policy-making decisDocumentImpact of HIV/AIDS on agriculture and the private sector in Swaziland: the demographic, social and economicimpact on subsistence agriculture, commercial agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture and Co-operatives and business
TAT Health Services, Swaziland, 2002This study attempts to determine the impact of HIV/AIDS on agriculture and the private sector, obtain vital information on vulnerability of agriculture and the private sector to HIV/AIDS related morbidity and mortality; and identify strategies that can be implemented to prevent and control the epidemic. A key finding of the paper is that HIV/AIDS has not affected the profitability and productDocumentLearning to beat Cochrane's treadmill. Public policies, markets, and social learning in Chile's small scale agriculture
International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2002An analysis of the small farming development strategy followed in Chile since the early 1990’s, suggests that in the context of increasingly liberalised economies open to international competition, success and sustainability of local development initiatives depends on interaction between: market characteristics and signals; reformist public policies, and; approaches used to facilitate social learnDocumentProtect knowledge to feed the world?: the application of intellectual property rights in international agriculture today and tomorrow
Agricultural Information and Documentation Service for Development Cooperation, 2002After a brief conceptual definition of property and intellectual property (IP), this paper argues that IP neither helps nor harms the interests of the poor. IP rights systems (IPRs) have only an indirect effect on the poor that is determined through policy decisions, particularly as related to access.DocumentBenefits and shortcomings of intellectual property rights for small scale farmers in developing countries
Agricultural Information and Documentation Service for Development Cooperation, 2002Rafael Mariano from the Peasant Movement of the Philippines presents his case arguing that intellectual property rights, and more broadly science, have been co-opted by business interests (supported by the US) to strengthen their control over agricultural production and to open up new markets at the expense of small farmers and developing countries.In particular he argues: The 1991 ActDocumentEurope's double standards: how the EU should reform its trade policies with the developing world
Oxfam, 2002The European Union has made much benefit to developing countries, but there is still a lot to do for reaching economic development and poverty eradication.This paper points out the worst features of EU trade policy, including:spending $41 billion a year on agricultural subsidies, regardless the negative effects that they can exert on developing countries economiesfailing to allow deDocumentStructural damage: the causes and consequences of Malawi’s food crisis
World Development Movement, 2002This report from WDM details IMF enforced policies which it claims have undermined Malawi’s ability to feed its people.DocumentBiotechnology and sustainable livelihoods: findings and recommendations of an international consultation
International Service for National Agricultural Research, 2002This paper, using a sustainable livelihoods framework, analyses various approaches and discusses case studies regarding the socioeconomic impact of biotechnology on the poor in developing countries.DocumentAfrican hunger and GM maize
SciDev.Net, 2002This short editorial from SciDev.Net explores the issues around the decision by Zimbabwe and Zambia to reject US food aid because it contains some genetically modified grain.The author briefly discusses the perceived health risks, the economic implcations in terms of trade and the political issues which inform this debate and pinpoints a number of lessons which should be learned.