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Agricultural Policy in Africa: Understanding Decision-Making and ImplementationDanielle Resnick and Regina Birner In recent years, there has been renewed emphasis on promoting agricultural production and food security in sub...
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Realizing the Right to Food in South AsiaBasic human rights recognize the intrinsic value of freedom, only not for the value of freedom itself, but also for its instrumental role enabling an individual to choose a bundle of commodities and wellbeing. The role of food, a basic necessity of...
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Revisiting the Global Food ArchitectureThe 2008 episode of food price explosion, political turmoil, and human suffering revealed important flaws in the current global food architecture. This paper argues that to safeguard the strengths of the current system, four failures in market...
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Climate Change Impacts on Moroccan Agriculture and the Whole EconomyThe paper provides estimates of economic impacts of climate change, compares these with historical impacts of drought spells, and estimates the extent to which the current Moroccan agricultural development and investment strategy, the Plan Maroc Vert...
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Getting Serious About Food
Luc Christiaensen Senior Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER At the G8 July summit in Aquila, Italy, US$ 20 billion was pledged to support farmers in poorer...
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Distributional Impacts of the 2008 Global Food Price Spike in VietnamAgriculture and food cultivation production remains a key sector in the Vietnamese economy in terms of productive activities, income generation, and national export earnings. Higher world market prices should therefore in principle have a beneficial...
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The Food Problems of BangladeshOur aim in this paper was to seek illumination on three questions pertaining to the food problems of Bangladesh: first, what are the processes perpetuating the food deprivation of great majority of the masses; secondly, has Bangladesh achieved over...
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Liberalized and Neglected?Food marketing is one of the fields where structural adjustment has been implemented throughout the Sub-Saharan Africa. This study analyses the impact of reform on the functioning and efficiency of food marketing. It is based on a comparative...
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The Liberalization of Food Marketing in Sub-Saharan AfricaLiberalization of food marketings has been implemented as a part of structural adjustment programmes in Sub-Saharan Africa. In this study we assess the i) the aims of the reform policy, ii) the implementation of specific reform measures, iii) the...
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Food Deprivation and Undernutrition in Rural BangladeshAfter the devastating famine of 1974, Bangladesh has successfully avoided any further disaster of its kind, surviving two close calls in 1979 and 1984 and a succession of floods in the recent years. Welcome as it, this success raises for the analyst...
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Food Security in the South Pacific Island Countries with Special Reference to the Fiji IslandsThis paper analyses the status of food security in selected South Pacific Island countries, namely Cook Islands, Fiji Islands, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, and Vanuatu at the national and household levels during the period 1991...
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Does the WTO Agreement on Agriculture Endanger Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa?The paper examines the state of food security in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), based on an analysis of a selection of indicators of food security and nutritional wellbeing during the period 1990-2002 within the context of the WTO Agreement on Agriculture...
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Agricultural Support Measures of Advanced Countries and Food Insecurity in Developing CountriesMany developing nations, especially the least developed countries, are subjected to recurrent spells of food insecurity. In order to understand food insecurity in these countries it is necessary to consider not only immediate or trigger-causes of...
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Analysis of the Potential Impact of the Current WTO Agricultural Negotiations on Government Strategies in the SADC RegionThis study aims to help identify how the Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) could potentially constrain government action to achieve food security in the Southern African Development Community (SADC). The paper considers the proposed tariff and subsidy...
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Agrarian Reform, Land Redistribution, and Small-farm PolicyPart of Book The Prevention of Humanitarian Emergencies
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Transition from Collective Farms to Individual Tenures in Central and Eastern EuropePart of Book Access to Land, Rural Poverty, and Public Action
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Realizing the Right to Food in South AsiaPart of Book Food Insecurity, Vulnerability and Human Rights Failure
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Food Security in the South Pacific Island Countries with Special Reference to the Fiji IslandsPart of Book Food Insecurity, Vulnerability and Human Rights Failure
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Does the WTO Agreement on Agriculture Endanger Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa?Part of Book Food Security
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Agricultural Support Measures of Advanced Countries and Food Insecurity in Developing CountriesPart of Book Food Security
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An Analysis of the Potential Impact of the Current WTO Agricultural Negotiations on Government Strategies in the SADC RegionPart of Book Food Security
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Food SecurityWhat are the implications of the WTO's Agreement on Agriculture for food security in poor countries? Are economic reforms and high growth rates in some countries protecting the well-being of the poor by improving the status of nutrition? Are we...
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