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    India's FTAs with East and SE Asia: impact of India-Malaysia CECA on the edible oil value chain

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2015
    This paper formulates an analytical framework to assess the impacts of India's Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) on commodity value chains. Existing academic literature have relied on examining Balance of Payments (BoP) to assess the impact of FTAs. The paper views such methodology as reductionist, and instead others alternative lenses of the impacts on the commodity value chain.
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    Women entrepreneurs – key players in ACP agribusiness development

    Small Island Economies - CTA Brussels, 2015
    Research has found strong reasons to emphasise women’s economic empowerment in developing programs: firstly, economic empowerment is one of the most powerful routes for women to achieve their potential and advance their rights; secondly, since women make up the majority of the world’s poor, meeting poverty-reduction goals requires addressing women and their economic empowerment; thirdly, discri
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    India's development cooperation with Ethiopia in sugar production: an assessment

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2015
    Ethiopia is one of the few countries in Africa with whom India has enjoyed a long standing partnership in development cooperation. In 2006, India provided a US$ 640 million line of credit to Ethiopia for development of its sugar industry.
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    Trade and Environment Review 2013: Wake up before it is too late: Make agriculture truly sustainable now for food security in a changing climate

    United Nations, 2013
    This report argues that the world needs a paradigm shift in agricultural development: from a ‘green revolution’ to a ‘truly ecological intensification’ approach.
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    Making economic corridors work for the agricultural sector

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2014
    In times of economic crisis, development models that help create jobs, generate wealth, mobilise public and private resources and stimulate key economic sectors sustainably are more important than ever. While there are no universal solutions, a development tool that seems to be gaining ground is the so-called “economic corridor”.
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    Food price spikes and poor, small economies: What role for trade policies?

    2015
    Upward spikes in international food prices lead some food-surplus countries to raise export barriers and some food-deficit countries to lower their import restrictions on staple foods – and conversely when prices slump. When many countries so respond, their actions in aggregate exacerbate the international price spike, making adjustment even more difficult for other countries.
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    Chinese agricultural entrepreneurship in Africa: case studies in Ghana and Nigeria

    SAIS China Africa Research Initiative, 2015
    Agriculture is an important area of Chinese economic engagement in Africa. Since the 1960s, China has provided aid, sent experts, and trained African farmers. However, there is still little empirical research on recent Chinese agribusiness investments in Africa.
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    Neither ‘land grab’ nor ‘friendship farm:’ Chinese agricultural engagement in Angola

    SAIS China Africa Research Initiative, 2015
    Chinese-Angolan agricultural cooperation can be divided into two phases, beginning in 2004.l n the first period, from 2004 to 2008, Chinese engagement focused on infrastructure construction. Since 2008, cooperation has centered on the development of comprehensive farm projects supported by credit from the China Development Bank.
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    The political ecology of Chinese investment in Uganda: the case of Hanhe Farm

    SAIS China Africa Research Initiative, 2014
    Hanhe Farm, located in the Nakaseke Administrative District, is the first private Chinese land-based agriculture enterprise in Uganda. This case can be used to examine the political context of land acquisition in Uganda, the ecological impact of land-use changes, and local community experiences and responses to conflicts over access to land and protection of ecological rights.
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    Chinese agricultural engagement in Zambia: a grassroots analysis

    SAIS China Africa Research Initiative, 2015
    Recent focus on large-scale Chinese investments in African agriculture has fueled popular misperceptions of Chinese "land grabs" and has overshadowed another unexplored-and perhaps more significant-phenomenon: the rise of medium-scale private Chinese farmers and rural entrepreneurs.

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