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October 14, 2005
Better Livelihoods for poor people: The role of agriculture-
This paper on Agriculture looks at a subject that can play an important part in tackling poverty and hunger. This is because three quarters of the world’s poorest people (the 1.2 billion living on less than a dollar a day) live in rural areas with t ...
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October 14, 2005
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State of the World's Forests
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The State of the World’s Forests reports every two years on the status of forests, recent major policy and institutional developments and key issues concerning the forest sector. This is the fifth edition of the publication, the purpose of which is ...
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October 14, 2005
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State of-World Fisheries and Aquaculture
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Table of contents:
Part 1 World review of fisheries and aquaculture
Part 2 Selected issues facing fishers and aquaculture
Part 3 Highlights of special FAO studies
Part 4 Outlook Part 5 Fisheries activities of country groupi ...
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October 14, 2005
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e-ForAll: A poverty reduction strategy for the information age
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Pervasive poverty and inequality amidst plenty is the major threat to prosperity, stability and peace at the dawn of the 21st Century. Notwithstanding extensive discourse about the digital divide, most information and communication technology (ICT) initia ...
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October 14, 2005
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Fisheries Sub-Sector Strategy Paper
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The main feature of this policy is to be focussed on the rural dweller. Unlike what has been done in the past, where the priority was given to the product (being export crops or food crops for the sake of “national food self-sufficiency”) the ...
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October 14, 2005
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Lifestock Sub-Sector Strategy Paper
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In 1999, the European Commission launched, with the support of the Member States, a process aiming at defining their policy to support rural development in developing countries. The main feature of this policy is to be focussed on the rural dweller. Unlik ...
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October 14, 2005
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Fighting Rural Poverty
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With poverty reduction as the central objective of EC development policy, there is a need to address more systematically and in a more comprehensive manner rural development concerns. In fact, (i) poverty and hunger are mainly rural problems, (ii) environ ...
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October 14, 2005
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Agriculture and poverty reduction: Unlocking the Potential - A DFID policy paper
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The UK is committed to supporting agriculture as a means of reducing poverty and achieving the Millennium Development Goals. This Paper shows why agriculture is important, summarises what we are already doing, and outlines our plans to overcome the fac ...
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October 14, 2005
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Making Agricultural Trade Liberalization Work for the Poor
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It has become a cliché that we live in an interconnected world, but cliché or not, globalization in its many and complex dimensions is one of the defining facets of our times. To make economic globalization work smoothly, sovereign countries ...
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October 14, 2005
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Beyond the City: The Rural Contribution to Development in Latin America and the Caribbean
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The development of rural economic activities and communities is pivotal for national well being. In Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) history, rural societies have been at the centre of both the origins of prosperity and of social upheaval. Rural communi ...
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