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    Adding new spices to development cooperation. Brazil, India, China and South Africa in health, agriculture and food security

    Research Institute for Work and Society, KU Leuven, 2013
    In recent years, the four so-called emerging powers or economies - Brazil, India, China and South Africa (the BICS) - have gained considerable academic, policy and media attention for their activities in development cooperation. Some authors argue that these countries employ innovative and alternative approaches to development cooperation than the traditional, i.e. OECD-DAC donors.
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    G-20 food security in Africa: measures to strengthen the G-20 agenda

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2013
    Africa is the continent where most of the world’s food insecure people live. Yet, when South Africa became the first African country to join the G-20, there were hopes that this might lead to stronger representation of Africa’s interests on an influential global platform.
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    The Southern African sugar sector

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2013
    The sugar industry has the potential to play a key developmental role in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region. The current paper illustrates that the sugar industry in Southern Africa is extensive, making up slightly more than half of the continent’s sugar production.
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    Land tenure reform and gender equality

    United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2005
    This brief explores the reform of land tenure institutions which re-emerged in the 1990s, and asks if these reforms are any more gender sensitive than those of the past?The paper highlights that a focus of the recent reforms has been on land titling, designed to promote security of tenure and stimulate land markets.
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    Unlimited companies: the developmental impacts of an investment agreement at the WTO

    ActionAid International, 2003
    This paper presents Actionaids response to the issues surroundings the Cancun Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), to be held in September 2003.ActionAid is concerned that an investment agreement negotiated at the WTO could inflict lasting damage on the livelihoods of poor people in developing countries.