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    Food reserves in developing countries: trade policy options for improved food security

    International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2011
    The food security debate is often posed as a choice between trade and stocks. This paper argues that this approach is misleading since the two strategies can be complementary.
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    Reforming agricultural trade for developing countries: volume two: quantifying the impact of multilateral trade reform

    2007
    Among the many reasons that agricultural trade reforms are important, two stand out: the importance of agriculture in developing countries and the slow growth of agricultural trade from developing countries to developed countries.
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    Global financial and food crisis: a Malysian perspective

    Institute of Strategic and International Studies, Malaysia, 2009
    High food prices from 2007 through mid-2008 spawned serious implications for food security, macroeconomic stability and even political stability in many countries, especially developing ones.
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    Agriculture, food security, and poverty in China

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2009
    This report outlines the growth success registered by China over the past decades. It states that China’s rapid economic growth would not have been possible without successful growth in the agricultural sector.
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    Agricultural export restrictions: welfare implications and trade disciplines

    International Food and Agricultural Trade Policy Council, USA, 2009
    Export restrictions are often imposed as a mean to promote domestic food security. Although they may bring some short-term relief to domestic consumers, economic analysis shows that their overall impact on the domestic economy as well as on the rest of the world is negative.
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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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    Getting out of the food crisis

    GRAIN, 2008
    The current food crisis is focusing attention on the way food reaches some of the most disadvantaged people in the world. In this edition of GRAIN's Seedling magazine, a collection of articles highlight the less discussed aspects of the food crisis and responses to it.
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    The time is now: how world leaders should respond to the food price crisis

    Oxfam, 2008
    Global food prices are up 83% compared with three years ago and it is estimated that current food price levels constitute an immediate threat to the livelihoods of around 290 million people. This brief argues that collective action is essential to devise solutions to the global food situation that are equitable and sustainable for the global population as a whole.
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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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    Food outlook: global market analysis

    Economic and Social Department, FAO, 2008
    FAO's Food Outlook is a biannual publication (June and November) focusing on developments affecting global food and feed markets and providing comprehensive assessments and forecasts on a commodity by commodity basis.

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