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  Trading up: building cooperation between farmers and traders in Africa

  Royal Tropical Institute, 2008

  Value chains provide potential benefits for both rural producers and urban consumers. This book focuses on the role of traders, which it argues are not the villains that producers often paint them as, but play an equally important role within value chains.
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  Meso-level restructuring of the food industry in developing countries: synthesis report - meso study

  Sustainable Markets Group, IIED, 2008

  Rapid changes are taking place in the structure and governance of national and regional agrifood markets in developing countries, affecting the agricultural sector's ability to contribute to economic growth, poverty reduction and sustainable rural development.
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  Agricultural trade: planting the seeds of regional liberalization in Asia

  United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 2007

  This publication brings together papers prepared for the “Regional Agricultural Trade Liberalization” project, which was implemented by the Asia-Pacific Research and Training Network on Trade (ARTNeT) researchers between May 2005 and December 2006.
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  The time is now: how world leaders should respond to the food price crisis

  Oxfam, 2008

  Global food prices are up 83% compared with three years ago and it is estimated that current food price levels constitute an immediate threat to the livelihoods of around 290 million people. This brief argues that collective action is essential to devise solutions to the global food situation that are equitable and sustainable for the global population as a whole.
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  id21 natural resources highlights 6: Rural livelihoods

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008

  This bi-annual addition of id21 Natural Resources Highlights looks specifically at rural livelihoods. It contains the following three articles:
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  Rising food prices: drivers and implications for development

  Child Rights Information Network, 2008

  Global food prices have risen 83 per cent over the last three years, with significant impacts for the world's poorest people. This briefing paper focuses on what this important change means for international development. It assesses the drivers of rising prices, discusses the implications of higher prices for developing countries, and surveys implications for development policy.
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  Tropical and diversification products: strategic options for developing countries

  International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2008

  This paper aims to provide strategic options for developing countries regarding the liberalisation of tropical products.
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  Regoverning markets programme: innovative practice series

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2007

  Rapid changes are taking place in agri-food markets in middle and low-income countries and small-scale agriculture, which supports the livelihoods of the majority of rural poor, is poorly prepared for these changes.
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  A value chain task force approach for managing private-public partnerships: Zambia's task force on acceleration of cassava utilisation

  US Agency for International Development, 2007

  Smallholder farmers operate in vertical supply chains, so an understanding of key opportunities and constraints up through the value chain becomes necessary for sustaining smallholder growth. Yet market analysis is of little value unless key private and public sector stakeholders agree to implement necessary reforms.
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  Changes in global value chains of fresh fruit and vegetables: opportunities and challenges for producers in Sub-Saharan Africa

  South Centre, 2007

  The governance of the global value chain in fresh fruit and vegetables no longer consists of an arm’s-length relationship between African (in the context of this document) smallholder producers and retailers with the links along the chain including agents and wholesalers.

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