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October 17, 2005
Agricultural Research for Development - European Commission Strategy Document-
Our objective is to provide simple, practical operational guidelines to assist decision making for the consideration of European Commission (EC) support for Agricultural Research for Development (ARD) in partnership with developing countries. It is a resu ...
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October 3, 2007
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Best practice: Export horticulture – improving smallholder access to supermarket supply chains in Kenya
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The project works with farmer groups, marketing organizations, exporters, small private providers of training and spraying services, a regional certification body and the Fresh Produce Exporters Association of Kenya. The overall aim is to ensure that ...
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October 3, 2007
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Best Practice: National Agriculture and Livestock Extension Programme
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Agriculture extension in Kenya was until the late 1990's based on the traditional understanding of the extension as a ”pipeline” that delivers technological messages to the farmers who are expected to implement them. In 2000, the Kenyan Governmen ...
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October 14, 2005
Agriculture Investment Sourcebook: Agribusiness and Market Development-
The expanding role of the private sector is increasingly realized, as is acceptance that markets are the best vehicle for rural economic growth, and for facilitating specialization and diversification. The increased focus on private enterprise and mark ...
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http://www-esd.worldbank.org/ais/index.cfm?Page=mdisp&m=6&p=0
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January 17, 2006
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Growth and Poverty Reduction: The Role of Agriculture, DFID, Dec 2005
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This paper describes the strong linkages between agriculture and poverty reduction, outlines six principles for agricultural strategies in poor countries and sets seven priorities for agricultural strategies.
Agriculture’s importance ...
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Original Resource Location (Source):
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/pubs/files/growth-poverty-agriculture.pdf
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October 14, 2005
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Better Livelihoods for poor people: The role of agriculture
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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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Gender and Agriculture in the Information Society
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A special report of a CTA meeting in Wageningen, The Netherlands 11-13 September 2002. The Cotonou Agreement provides the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) with a basic gender po ...
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April 29, 2008
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A Time of High Prices: An Opportunity For the Rural Poor?, IATP, April 2008
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Eyes all around the world are turned toward agricultural markets. Climate change, the rising price of oil, biofuels, speculation on financial markets and income growth in emerging economies are some of the factors that have combined over the past two y ...
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October 17, 2005
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Land Policy Guidelines of the EU - Final Report submitted to EU Task Force on Land Tenure
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This report provides a summary analysis of comments received through an electronic consultation on the draft Land Policy Guidelines of the European Union (EU). This consultation was held from 16 February to 12 March 2004, with the goal of widening the ...
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Original Resource Location (Source):
http://webapps.ifad.org/euforum/forum/updates/final_report_submitted_to_eu_task_
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October 10, 2007
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Best Practice: Environmental-oriented Management of Local and Regional Development in Pará and Amapá
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The project followed a two-fold approach: promoting value chains based on biodiversity linking communities and companies in business-partnerships, and promoting the diversification of community income and business opportunities to prevent undesired depend ...
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