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    Agricultural R&D in the developing world: too little, too late?

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2006
    Are developing countries are at risk of becoming technological orphans?
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    Enhancing agricultural innovation: how to go beyond the strengthening of research systems

    World Bank, 2006
    How does innovation occur? Describing recent changes in the context of agricultural development, this paper signals a need to better examine how innovation is generated in the agricultural sector.
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    Farmers’ suicides in Maharashtra

    Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2006
    The suicide mortality rate for farmers in the Indian State of Maharashtra has quadrupled in the last decade, according to this research paper. Is agricultural dumping by the United States, declining agricultural investment, and a broader government withdrawal from agriculture driving smallholder farmers into desperation?
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    Green revolution in Africa

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2005
    In light of high forecasted population growth rates for Africa over the next decade, this report argues that the need to generate a uniquely African Green Revolution is long overdue. Analysing anticipated development trends in African agriculture, food and nutrition, inputs and natural resource use, the report outlines some challenges and the way forward for African agricultural development.
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    Agroecology and the struggle for food sovereignty in the Americas

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2006
    The authors of this book believe that the search for a more ‘liveable world’ must find alternatives to the corporate capture of food, land, biodiversity and the environment. This needs to build on the potential offered by more autonomous local food systems and organisations.
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    Revaluing peasant coffee production: organic and fair trade markets in Mexico

    Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University, 2005
    The emergence of significant new markets for organic and “fairly traded” products has been hailed as an important part of the effort to address the chronic poverty suffered by many small-scale coffee producers in the developing world.
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    Helping small farmers think about better growing and marketing

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2004
    Small farmers can benefit from understanding farming as a business and, as a result, improve their livelihoods through the identification of viable and profitable enterprises.
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    Understanding the issues: what's the matter with trade?

    Norwegian Church Aid, 2005
    This is a set of papers that address the questions: do equal rules really allow poor producers to receive a fair share of the trade wealth and does the current free trade system represent equal rules at all?
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    Off-farm employment, factor market development and input use in farm production: a case study of a remote village in Jiangxi Province, China

    Department of Economics and Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2005
    The objective of this paper is to analyse the impact of off-farm employment on village factor market development, and estimate the effects of off-farm employment on input use in farm production (especially inputs related to the change of land production capacity).The paper identifes four household groups which at group level show large differences in terms of household size, number of labourers
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    Organic agriculture and rural poverty alleviation: potential and best practices in Asia

    Poverty and Development Division, UNESCAP, 2002
    This document studies the rapidly developing organic farming sector in Asia. It looks at concepts and practices, export potential, market developments and, first and foremost, success cases where small and marginal farmers in the rural areas were able to increase their livelihood through organic agriculture.

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