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  Intellectual property rights, biotechnology and food security

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  This paper examines the relationship between food security, agricultural biotechnology and intellectual property rights (IPRs), particularly for developing countries and poorer groups within those countries.Main findings include:for low income developing countries, the costs of strengthening IPRs may well outweigh the gainspro-IPR industry representatives and trade officials, with p
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  Contexts for regulation: GMOs in Zimbabwe

  Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2003

  This paper looks at the regulation of biotechnology in Zimbabwe.
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  Food security and the millennium development goal on hunger in Asia

  Overseas Development Institute, 2003

  This paper provides an overview of food security issues in relation to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, China, Indonesia, Cambodia and Vietnam.It identifies the key issues relating to food security in Asia, setting out progress and the prospects for achieving the MDG on hunger and analysing how these issues are likely to develop in 10 to 25 years time, in par
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  An integrated economic and social analysis to assess the impact of vegetable and fishpond technologies on poverty in rural Bangladesh

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003

  This study examines the poverty reduction implications of the introduction of three different agricultural technologies by government and NGOs in three rural sites across Bangladesh.The technologies looked at are: new vegetable seeds developed by AVRDC (the Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center) that were introduced in Saturia by a local NGO to women owning small amounts of land, base
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  Malawi's food crisis: causes and solutions

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2003

  This brief report examines the assumptions that the 2001-2003 food crisis in Malawi was the result of poor management of grain reserves, corruption and a severe drought. It argues that these often-cited ‘causes’ are partial explanations at best.
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  Gender and sustainable development in drylands: an analysis of field experiences

  Gender and Development, FAO Sustainable Dimensions, 2003

  With an estimated 40 percent of people in Africa, South America and Asia living in drylands, land degradation poses a significant threat to food security and survival. This report looks at the relationship between gender and dryland management based on an analysis of field experiences in Africa and Asia.
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  The profits of famine: Southern Africa's long decade of hunger

  Institute for Food and Development Policy, 2002

  This article explores the causes of famine and chronic malnutrition in Southern Africa.
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  In-kind transfers and household food consumption: implications for targeted food programs in Bangladesh

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002

  This paper examines the impact of wheat transfers and cash incomes on wheat consumption and wheat markets. It uses data from a 1998/99 survey of rural households in Bangladesh to econometrically estimate marginal propensities to consume (MPCs) out of wheat transfers in several distribution programs.
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  Poverty, institutions, peasant band conservation investment in Northern Ethiopia

  Department of Economics and Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2003

  This PhD thesis provides an econometric analysis of various aspects of the rural economy in Northern Ethiopia.The thesis consists of five papers:an in-depth analysis of poverty, its distribution, dynamics and its correlates within the framework of the role of economic reforms on poverty reduction in a remote, unstable and environmentally troubled regionlooks at the issue of the effi
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  The maze of maize: improving input and output market access for poor smallholders in southern African region: the experience of Zambia and Malawi

  Department of Economics and Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2003

  This study evaluates the causes of the 2001-3 food crisis in Zambia and Malawi, looks at existing policies and makes recommendations to avoid future crises.The study differentiates causes of the crisis (the maize harvest shortfall in 2001, as well as to why the shortfall caused a food emergency) between: immediate causes, such as reduced plantings due to low food prices the p

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