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  Report of the proceedings of the first International Coffee Organisation conference

  International Coffee Organization, 2001

  This document provides a summary of all of the papers at the fist conference of the International coffee organisation (ICO).
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  Are intellectual property rights stifling agricultural biotechnology in developing countries?

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2000

  This summary of research from IFPRI addresses the issue of balancing corporations increasing desire to seek IP protection for biotech. products against concerns that developing countries will not have access to these new developments.
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  Potential carbon mitigation and income in developing countries from changes in use and management of agricultural and forest lands

  Essex University, 2001

  This paper explores the opportunities for mitigating atmospheric carbon emissions and generating development income in developing countries through a combination of sustainable agricultural practices on existing lands, slowing tropical deforestation, and reforesting degraded lands.The analysis shows that over the next ten years, forty-eight major tropical and subtropical developing countries ha
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  New technologies for rural applications

  International Telecommunication Union, 2002

  This comprehensive synthesis of a focus group process begins by considering the characteristics of rural areas.
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  Market institutions, transaction costs, and social capital in the Ethiopian grain market

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2001

  Looks at how brokerage institutions minimize the transaction costs and facilitate exchange within the liberalized grain market in Ethiopia.
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  HIV/AIDS and rural livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa

  Natural Resources Institute, UK, 2000

  This paper describes a literature survey of existing research into HIV/AIDS and rural livelihoods.
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  Managing the invisible hand

  WTO Watch Trade Observatory, IATP, 2002

  Agriculture and trade are important development tools. However, trade liberalisation does not necessarily fulfil the developmental objectives that should be at the basis of WTO and most of the multilateral agreements.Multilateral negotiations for agriculture are crossing a particularly delicate phase.
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  Rural land management in Zambia: the need for institutional and land tenure reforms

  Land Rights in Africa, Oxfam, 2002

  This study contends that Zambia cannot develop if it neglects policy for the efficient utilization of its natural resources.
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  CIPR final report: integrating intellectual property rights and development policy

  Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, 2002

  This, the final report of the Commission on Intellectual Property Rights set up by the UK government in 2001 and consisting of members representing a range of views on all aspects of IPRs.The Commission was asked to consider:how national IPR regimes could best be designed to benefit developing countries within the context of international agreements, including TRIPS;how the internat
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  Land restitution and redistribution: providing opportunities for broad-based rural development

  Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000

  This case study deals with the South African government policies for restitution and redistribution of land to people in rural areas who were deprived of it due to racially discriminatory laws and practice. Its main focus is on how the interactions between civil society and the state in the several phases of land reform through the 1990s reflect some key issues of governance, eg.

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