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  Biotechnology policy and regulation in China

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  This paper refutes claims that China has in recent years fundamentally altered its stance on GMOs in response to trade, food safety and environmental biosafety concerns.
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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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  How does stronger protection of intellectual property rights affect seed supply?: early evidence of impact

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1999

  Is there evidence to indicate that early benefits have, in fact, been gained by the world s main biotechnology and seed companies? What will be the consequences for developing countries? Will IPR legislation result in better varieties becoming available more quickly? Will it encourage local plant breeding or will IPR predominantly strengthen the market position of foreign seed companies?
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  Situation and prospects for forest conservation and development: FAO State of the World's Forests 1997: Part 1

  State of the World's Forests, FAO, 1999
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  Growth and poverty in rural India

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  Higher agricultural yields reduced absolute poverty in rural India, both by raising smallholder productivity and by increasing real agricultural wages. But gains to the poor were far smaller in the short run than in the long run.Unlike most developing countries, consistent poverty measures for India can be tracked over a long time.
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  Explaining Agricultural and Agrarian Policies in Developing Countries

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  What explains differences in agricultural and agrarian policies across countries and over time? Why do countries adopt, and maintain, policy regimes that reduce efficiency and increase rural poverty? What are the conditions for countries to initiate equity and efficiency enhancing policy reforms and for these reforms to be maintained? These are the questions pursued in this literature review.
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  Is Agricultural Intensification Profitable For Mozambican Smallholders? An Appraisal of the Inputs Subsector and the 1996/97 DNER/SG2000 Program

  Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 1998

  Summarizes an appraisal of input use and marketing in Mozambique focusing on the following research questions: (1) what are current smallholder yields for major commodities and what is the potential for increasing yields by using improved technologies? (2) to what extent are improved technologies already being used by smallholders, and are they profitable?
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  Mainstreaming Public Participation in Economic Infrastructure Projects

  Overseas Development Institute, 1998

  In the last ten years, participation has become central to the social development sectors of official development assistance – smallholder agriculture, community forestry, health care, education, urban sanitation, small-scale water supplies, etc.
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  Macro Trends and Determinates of Fertilizer Use in Sub-Saharan Africa

  Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 1999

  Reviews the the dynamics of fertilizer use in Africa, specifically with regards to the trends in fertilizer consumption at the continental, regional and country level and the factors associated with changes in fertilizer use.Finds that:On trends in fertilizer useAggregate figures for fertilizer consumption in SSA show a steady increase, measured in terms of both absolute levels (metr
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  Agriculture and the policy environment: Zambia and Zimbabwe: political dreams and policy nightmares

  OECD Development Centre, 1992

  The paper examines the effect of differing policies in the post-independence period on the agricultural and overall economic performance of Zambia and Zimbabwe. It focuses on the interaction between macroeconomic and agricultural policy reforms. It shows that macro and micro reforms need to be closely linked and that both are critical to sectoral performance.

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