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Searching with a thematic focus on Technology and innovation in agriculture, Agriculture and food, Food and agriculture markets

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  Selling Suicide: farming, false promises and genetic engineering in developing countries

  Christian Aid, 1999

  Experience shows that large gaps between rich and poor, ownership of resources concentrated in too few hands, and a food supply based on too few varieties of crops, are the classic preconditions for hunger and famine. New technologies are taking us further down this ill-advised farm track.
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  Zambia’s Credit Management Services: micro-credit schemes for women entrepreneurs

  Africa Region Findings, World Bank, 1999

  Credit Management Services Limited (CMS) was established in 1992 as a subsidiary of Molver and Company, a Zambian accounting company.
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  Listening to farmers: Participatory assessment of policy reform in Zambia’s agriculture sector

  Africa Region Findings, World Bank, 1998

  Short summary of case for using participatory evaluation methods
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  Green revolution technology takes root in Africa: the promise and challenge of the Ministry of Agriculture/SG2000 experiment with improved cereals technology in Ethiopia

  Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 1999

  Examines economic benefits of introducing new technologies for maize and teff growing in Ethiopia, based on experimental projects.
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  Seed fairs and the case of Marambo village, Nachingwea District, Tanzania: implications of local informal seed supply and variety

  Agricultural Research and Extension Network, 2000

  Report assessing the indigenous systems of seed flow and variety development (especially seed fairs), and public agricultural development organisation perceptions of it.Outcomes and conclusions:indications of the existence of a dynamic informal culture of seed procurement, testing, and exchange among smallholder farmers in south east Tanzaniafarmers attended the seed fairs, t
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  Biotechnology and the changing public / private sector balance: developments in rice and cocoa

  OECD Development Centre, 1992

  This study examines the potential impact of changes in the public/private sector balance for biotechnology development and diffusion in developing country agriculture. It focuses on biotechnology related to two important developing country crops: rice and cocoa.
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  Agricultural productivity and economic policies: concepts and measurements

  OECD Development Centre, 1992

  This study develops a conceptual framework for analysing the ways in which changes in the economic environment modify factor productivity. It focuses on the technology actually used in production - implemented technology - rather than the generation of technology.
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  Structural adjustment and the institutional dimensions of agricultural research and development in Brazil: soybeans, wheat and sugar cane

  OECD Development Centre, 1992

  Structural adjustment, liberalisation and the pressures of technological change are having major impact on the institutional organisation of the agro-industrial sector. In industrialised countries, the private sector is positioned to play the vanguard role in the next generation of agricultural technologies.
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  Biotechnology Policy for Development Country Agriculture

  OECD Development Centre, 1997

  Biotechnology offers the potential for more environmentally-friendly agriculture but the conditions for developing countries to take advantage of that potential should be created. Policy intervention is needed to ensure that biotechnology responds to the priorities set for agriculture.
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  Biotechnology and sustainable crop production in Zimbabwe

  OECD Development Centre, 1995

  This case study of Zimbabwe has examined developments in biotechnology against the background of a well-developed national agricultural research, plant breeding and seeds system.

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