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    Resource-poor farmers in South India: on the margins or frontiers of globalisation

    World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2006
    It is often argued that an important reason why globalisation may lead to GDP growth but fail to reduce poverty is because the poor are unable to participate in new market opportunities and are thus marginalised.
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    Promoting pro-poor growth: agriculture

    Development Assistance Committee, OECD, 2006
    In most poor countries growth in agriculture tends to be pro-poor, because it increases the value of poor people’s key assets of land and labour. Achieving internationally agreed poverty reduction targets therefore depends on boosting growth in agricultural sector productivity for the majority of countries.
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    Agricultural R&D in the developing world: too little, too late?

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2006
    Are developing countries are at risk of becoming technological orphans?
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    Assessing market distortions affecting poverty reduction efforts on smallholder tobacco production in Tanzania

    Research on Poverty Alleviation, Tanzania, 2006
    Tobacco is one of Tanzania’s most important agricultural export crops as well as being an important source of employment and income in rural areas. However, this study finds that gross inefficiencies in the production-marketing system are distorting markets and reducing the profitability of tobacco production for smallholder farmers.
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    Agriculture and achieving the Millennium Development Goals

    World Bank, 2006
    This report argues that agriculture and rural development, directly and/or indirectly, play a crucial role for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
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    Green revolution in Africa

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2005
    In light of high forecasted population growth rates for Africa over the next decade, this report argues that the need to generate a uniquely African Green Revolution is long overdue. Analysing anticipated development trends in African agriculture, food and nutrition, inputs and natural resource use, the report outlines some challenges and the way forward for African agricultural development.
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    Agroecology and the struggle for food sovereignty in the Americas

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2006
    The authors of this book believe that the search for a more ‘liveable world’ must find alternatives to the corporate capture of food, land, biodiversity and the environment. This needs to build on the potential offered by more autonomous local food systems and organisations.
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    Institutional bottlenecks for agricultural development: a stock-taking exercise based on evidence from sub-Saharan Africa

    OECD Development Centre, 2006
    This paper presents a framework to analyse institutional bottlenecks for agricultural development in sub-Saharan Africa. It identifies key institutional issues for agriculture, and finds that the historically poor performance of African agriculture can be attributed not only to a lack of natural resources and extractive policies, but also fundamental institutional bottlenecks.

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