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  FAO Plan of Action for Women in Development

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1999
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  From Prices to Incomes: Agricultural Subsidization without Protection?

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  In theory, moving from price based subsidies for agriculture to less distorted income support programs makes sense.
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  Is growth in Bangladesh's rice production sustainable?

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996

  The current level of per capita production of rice in Bangladesh can be sustained only through increased yields of modern rice varieties.The recent growth of food grain (primarily rice) production in Bangladesh has outpaced population growth largely because of the spread of green revolution technology.
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  How prices and macroeconomic policies affect agricultural supply and the environment

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996

  There is clearly a link between agricultural incentives and the environment, but quantitative data on such topics as soil quality and land use are inadequate for sound analysis.Mamingi studies the literature on how agricultural prices and macroeconomic policies affect agricultural supply and how that supply affects the environment.
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  Child Labour in commercial agriculture in Africa

  International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, 1999

  This paper seeks to review briefly the available evidence on the extent and types of child labour in the commercial agriculture sector in the Africa region. Information and data are included from case-studies carried out on the child labour situation in commercial agriculture in Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, United Republic of Tanzania and Zimbabwe.
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  Targeting assistance to the poor and food insecure: a literature review

  The Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics - Michigan State University, 1995

  This report is a comprehensive review of the literature and summary of “targeting” programs that deliver food assistance to the poor and food insecure. It provides definitions, ra-tionales for targeting, analysis of benefits and costs (political and administrative) of various targeting mechanisms, and descriptions of targeting methods.
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  Promoting food security in Rwanda through sustainable agricultural productivity : meeting the challenges of population pressure, land degradation, and poverty / Daniel C. Clay ... [et al.]

  The Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics - Michigan State University, 1996

  The objective of this technical paper is to shed insights on ways of reversing the spiraling decline of the land and the economy in rural Rwanda, with focus on the forces behind productivity decline in the Rwandan agricultural sector.
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  United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa: full text of Convention

  Convention to Combat Desertification, 1994

  Full text of the Convention to Combat Desertification, which was elaborated by the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INCD) and signed in June 1994.Also available from the CCD WWW site in French and English
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  The green revolution and the growth of the informal sector in Bangladesh

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1996

  This paper is the first in a series of papers on a restudy of a village in the Barind tract of northern Bangladesh. At the time of the original study in 1975/76 boro cultivation was negligible, due to lack ofirrigation facilities. There were few job opportunities outside agriculture in the village and in the neighbouring small town.
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  The determinants of the national position of Brazil on climate change : empirical reflections

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1997

  International negotiations on the Framework Convention on Climate Change have been characterized by severe polarization between developed and developing countries. The G77, led by major countries such as Brazil, India, and China, illustrated a remarkable capacity to manifest its importance in the final text of the Convention.

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