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  Structure and conduct of major agricultural input and output markets and response to reforms by rural households in Madagascar

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 1998

  Interim reports on adjustment in the input trading sector; price behavior in local markets; and adjustment farm households have been published and are available online.
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  Understanding the determinants of structural change in world food markets

  Global Trade Analysis Project, 1998

  Uses a modified version of the GTAP model to analyze the relative role of different forces underlying the compositional changes in world agriculture and food trade in the last 15 years. Attempts to isolate the effects of supply and demand factors as well as changes in transportation costs and trade policy.
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  Agriculture, food and nutrition for Africa: A resource book for teachers of agriculture

  Food and Nutrition Division, FAO, 1997

  Resource book for use in sub-Saharan Africa by teachers of agriculture who wish to introduce into their training programmes aspects of the food chain that are related to food consumption and to nutrition. Designed for use by trainers in preparing their teaching material, it is not intended for direct use by students.
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  Failed Magic or Social Context?: Market Liberalization and the Rural Poor in Malawi

  Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 1996

  One of the key questions in the debates swirling around structural adjustment programs in Africa is their effects on the poor. Have these programs "benefited ... the rural poor disproportionately", as concluded in Adjustment in Africa (World Bank 1994)? The answer for rural families studied over a period of years in Malawi is no.
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  Can China feed itself?: A System for Evaluation of Policy Options

  International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, 1999

  Decision-support application for planners and policymakers.
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  The environmental and social impacts of economic liberalization on corn production in Mexico

  Oxfam, 2001

  Examines Mexico’s effort to liberalise and “modernise” its agricultural sector, and in particular its domestic production of corn.Conclusions:liberalisation has failed to achieve the environmental and social improvements it promised.
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  Evaluation of EC food aid, food security policy, food aid management and programmes in support of food security

  European Commission Directorate-General for Development, 2000

  This reports on an evaluation of EC food aid, food security policy, and food aid management.Summary of main findings:the Regulation stipulates the policy of the European Commission as far as it concerns its food aid (other than for humanitarian and emergency reasons) and the Food Security Programme. This policy is defined within the international policy environment on food security.
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  Trends in real food prices in six sub-Saharan African countries

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1996

  The objectives of this research were to assess the direction and magnitude of food prices since the implementation of food sector policy reforms, to identify the major factors affecting such changes, and to assess the resulting effects of food system reforms on household-level food security in East Africa, Southern Africa, and West Africa.The report highlights several conclusions: grain and gra
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  Effects of market reform on access to food by low-income households : evidence from four countries in Eastern and Southern Africa

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1996

  This report highlights conclusions from the study which have broader implications for targeting vulnerable groups. There appear to be major opportunities to promote household food security through the use of self-targeting.
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  Urban maize meal consumption patterns: strategies for improving food access for vulnerable urban households in Kenya

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1995

  This report examines maize consumption patterns in response to policy changes in Kenya and the implications for urban food security. It is based on empirical evidence from a household survey. The researchers’ five conclusions challenge conventional assumptions about fixed consumer tastes and preferences in relation to agriculture policy.

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