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    Women entrepreneurs – key players in ACP agribusiness development

    Small Island Economies - CTA Brussels, 2015
    Research has found strong reasons to emphasise women’s economic empowerment in developing programs: firstly, economic empowerment is one of the most powerful routes for women to achieve their potential and advance their rights; secondly, since women make up the majority of the world’s poor, meeting poverty-reduction goals requires addressing women and their economic empowerment; thirdly, discri
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    Dirty cotton - a research on child labour, slavery, trafficking and exploitation in cotton and cotton seed farming in India

    Global March Against Child Labour, 2012
    The introduction of genetically modified or BT cotton in India has increased the demand for cheap labour.  Recognising the need to understand and address the growing concern over the engagement of children in the cotton industry in India, this study examines the issue of child labour in four cotton and cotton seed growing states in – Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka and Maharashtra
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    Preliminary study of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee on discrimination in the context of the right to food

    UN Human Rights Council, 2010
    This study on discrimination in the context of the right to food was produced for the fourth session of the Advisory Committee of the UN Human Rights Council held in February 2010.
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    Agrarian change in Maoist influenced areas of Nepal

    Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2009
    This paper conducts a statistical analysis of agrarian change in Maoist influenced districts of Nepal. The paper analyses land distribution and agricultural wages before and during the Maoist existence. The analysis contributes to the classical debate on whether a political and military revolutionary movement can contribute to the change in basic economic structures and mechanisms.
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    SARD and agricultural workers

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2006
    This is a policy brief that summarises the barriers to well being faced by agricultural workers and provides policy options based on International Labour Organization (ILO) conventions and international agreements.
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    The demographic profile of the Arab countries: ageing of rural populations

    Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, 2007
    This report highlights the course of fertility and mortality transitions, and examines trends in rural and urban populations in the 22 countries of the Arab region for the period 1980-2050.
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    Fueling disaster: a community food security perspective on agrofuels

    Community Food Security Coalition, 2007
    As the United States’ appetite for agrofuels continues to grow and other countries join this trend, the ecological and social footprint of agrofuel consumption will be increasingly felt throughout the world.
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    Globalisation, labour markets and inequality in India

    International Development Research Centre, 2008
    Analysing unit-level data on poverty, inequality and employment in post-reform India, this book finds that:
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    Agribusiness in South Asia: a fact sheet

    Make Trade Fair Campaign, Oxfam International, 2007
    This paper reviews the nature, profile and functioning of South Asia’s agribusiness sector which has been undergoing rapid changes in the wake of globalisation. Its principal focus is the impact of agribusiness corporations, supermarket chains and such agencies on primary producers and rural poverty reduction.
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    Rural employment and migration: in search of decent work

    Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2007
    A further 106 million will have joined the rural labour force in the developing world between 2005 and 2015, but what work will they find, and where? This paper argues that new thinking on rural employment is needed to create more and better rural jobs.

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