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The paper considers the impact of livelihoods oriented agricultural service provision for smallholder farmers on gender relationships and food security. The paper contents that the democratization and liberalization of agricultural services towards participatory, bottom-up approaches, from the...
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The consequences of climate change for agriculture and food security in developing countries are of serious concern …. Due to their reliance on rain-fed agriculture both as a source of income and consumption, many low-income countries are …
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Following an overview on the fast changing global context of agriculture, and food and nutrition security, this paper … provides a framework for identifying the set of essential international public goods for a well-functioning world agriculture …
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market functioning and policymaking must be addressed. First, governments must reinvest in agriculture with a focus on public …
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Global projections for increasing food demand combined with increasing demand for energy from all sources – including crop-based biofuels – point towards greater stress on food systems and their supporting ecosystems. In many parts of the world, increasing household incomes has translated...
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preferential) trade integration are compared to assess policy reform priorities. Their coherence with the objective of agriculture …
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The role of agriculture in development remains much debated. This paper takes an empirical perspective and focuses on … poverty, as opposed to growth alone. The contribution of a sector to poverty reduction is shown to depend on its own growth … evidence indicates that agriculture is significantly more effective than nonagriculture in reducing poverty among the poorest …
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