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  International drivers of Brazilian agricultural cooperation in Africa in the post-2008 economic crisis

  Future Agricultures Consortium, 2015

  Recent international political and economic developments have had an ambiguous impact on the course of and prospects for Brazilian agricultural cooperation in Africa.
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  Situating Tian Ze’s role in reviving Zimbabwe’s flue-cured tobacco sector in the wider discourse on Zimbabwe- China cooperation: will the scorecard remain win-win?

  Future Agricultures Consortium, 2015

  The milestone 1998 land reform conference convened by Zimbabwe and major donors ended in a stalemate on how the country was to proceed thereon. In the aftermath of that landmark event, Zimbabwe proceeded unilaterally in implementing a fairly radical land reform programme that saw land owned by almost all white large scale commercial farmers being redistributed among indigenous people.
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  Emerging seed markets: the role of Brazilian, Chinese and Indian seeds in African agriculture

  Future Agricultures Consortium, 2014

  In recent years, three of the largest emerging powers, Brazil, China and India, have all brought about incredible agricultural revolutions and seeds have played a big part in that story. Nowadays, their seed markets are all within the world’s top ten in terms of value and their companies are eager to expand into new markets, particularly in Africa.
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  Impact of the rice trade policy reforms on household welfare in the Philippines

  Philippine Journal of Development, 2010

  The effects of rice trade policy reforms on household welfare, as indicated by changes in consumer and producer prices, are analysed in this paper using nonparametric regression and density estimation. Since many households in the Philippines are consumers and producers of rice, the net benefit ratio (NBR) was used to measure the change in household welfare given changes in prices.
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  Agricultural input subsidies for productivity, farm incomes, consumer welfare and wider growth in low- and middle- income countries: a systematic review

  The Campbell Collaboration, 2013

  Adequate inputs are important to achieving agricultural productivity in developing countries.  But there is a strong concern that the inputs and technologies needed to achieve increased productivity are financially unaffordable or unattractive to many poor farmers.
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  Incorporating Regional Rice Production Models in a Simulation Model of Rice Importation: A Discrete Stochastic Programming Approach

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2009

  In the Philippines, importation has remained as one of the most feasible options for the government to meet the growing demand for rice. It is thus imperative for the government to develop a strategy that would ensure adequate supply and minimum importation costs. One of the critical factors in import decisionmaking is rice production.
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  Policy options for agricultural investments and governance of markets: in support of small-scale farmers in Guatemala

  Oxfam, 2014

  Guatemala's farming sector has undergone some major changes over the last 20 years, such as the growth of monocultures and of small-scale farming for export. This trend has been driven by both a general framework of laws offering incentives and international demand, particularly for vegetables, legumes, and substitutes for oil-derived fuels.
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  Rapid Appraisal of the State of Competition in the Rice Value Chain

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2014

  The rapid appraisal is based on the interview of select players in various levels of the palay/rice value chain from Pangasinan and Nueva Ecija to Metro Manila. It finds that the paddy and rice supply chain is multilayered with many competing players in each layer, and with no evidence of any cartel-like behavior in the areas studied.
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  The ASEAN Economic Community Blueprint: Implementation and Effectiveness Assessment for Philippine Agriculture

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2012

  The ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) Blueprint outlines the plan of countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to unify into a single market and production base. A priority focus for integration is the enhancement of trade among ASEAN member-countries and long-term competitiveness of food and agriculture products produced within ASEAN.
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  The Potential Impacts of a Free Trade Agreement with the European Union on the Philippine Fisheries Sector

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2014

  This study assessed the likely economic, distributional, and fisheries resource impacts of a potential free trade agreement (FTA) between the Philippines and European Union (EU) on the fisheries sector of the former. The study used secondary data from institutional sources and results and findings of past studies.

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