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    India's development cooperation with Ethiopia in sugar production: an assessment

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2015
    Ethiopia is one of the few countries in Africa with whom India has enjoyed a long standing partnership in development cooperation. In 2006, India provided a US$ 640 million line of credit to Ethiopia for development of its sugar industry.
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    China Africa in agriculture: a background paper on trade, investment and aid in agriculture

    International Poverty Reduction Center in China, 2010
    This paper investigates China-Africa exchanges in agriculture, which is a relatively small component of the China-Africa trade.
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    Development support monitor 2009: Africa in our hands

    African Monitor, 2009
    Although Africa attracted $43 billion in private capital, $40 billion in remittances and $38 billion in aid in 2008 it still faces a considerable resource gap. Such financial support, some would argue, is needed to ensure progressive mobilisation of Africa’s domestic resources and, in turn, social and economic development.
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    Cereal offenders: how the G8 has contributed to the global food crisis, and what they can do to stop it

    ActionAid International, 2008
    Three years after the G8 pledged to ‘make poverty history’, the current global food crisis has left close to a quarter of the world’s population lacking basic food security. In this policy brief, Actionaid calls on G8 leaders to take bold steps in Hokkaido to prevent world hunger spiralling further out of control.
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    Fertiliser subsidies and sustainable agricultural growth in Africa: current issues and empirical evidence from Malawi, Zambia, and Kenya

    The Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics - Michigan State University, 2008
    The role of input subsidies in stimulating growth and addressing food security and poverty alleviation objectives has re-emerged as an important  debate in agricultural policy.
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    The Malawi fertiliser subsidy programme: politics and pragmatism

    Future Agricultures Consortium, 2008
    Food insecurity in Malawi has become endemic, with around 70-80% of rural households short of self-produced staple foods for four to five months of the year. This Future Agricultures brief reviews the Malawian government's Fertiliser Subsidy Programme (FSP), introduced in 2005/2006 as a means of attempting to tackle the ever-pressing food crisis.
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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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    Forthcoming changes in the EU banana and sugar markets: a menu ofoptions for an effective EU transitional package

    Overseas Development Institute, 2005
    Preferential access under the EU’s Sugar and Banana Protocols has supported large income transfers to a number of ACP countries. These transfers will be reduced under proposed reforms to the EU’s sugar and banana markets which are due to take place at the end of 2005.
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    Policy coherence for development: issues in agriculture

    Trinity College, Dublin, 2005
    This paper surveys a range of issues that arise with respect to the coherence of OECD agricultural policies with the Millennium Development Goals’ objectives of reducing poverty and overcoming hunger in developing countries.Its findings include:the more comprehensive and deeper the liberalisation, the more likely that all countries can gainit makes sense, therefore, to include agric
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    Food aid or hidden dumping?: separating wheat from chaff

    Oxfam, 2005
    This briefing shows how current practices in food aid, especially those of the USA, create substantial adverse side-effects in trade that damage the livelihoods of poor farmers and prevent their economic opportunities from developing.

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