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Delivering Genetically Engineered Crops to Poor Farmers

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Small-scale, resource-poor farmers in developing countries face daily stresses, including poor soils, drought, and lack of inputs. Ongoing trends such as climate change and population growth will likely exacerbate binding stresses. A new generation of genetically engineered (GE) crop research aims to alleviate these pressures through the improvement of subsistence crops—such as cassava, sorghum, and millet—that incorporate traits such as tolerance to drought, water, and aluminum in soils as more...

Added by Zunia on March 19, 2010

A Rapid Seed Assessment in the Southern Department of Haiti

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This report summarizes the results from a CRS conducted rapid seed assessment in the South Department in Haiti between February 12 and March 1, 2010. The purpose of this assessment was to understand broadly the impacts of the January 12th earthquake on seed security in the South Department, including related production and food security impacts. The survey focused on immediate seed availability and household access for principal food security crops as well as basic production needs for improved more...

Added by Zunia on March 18, 2010

Enjeux du commerce dans le secteur des oléagineux pour les pays ACP

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Note de synthèse mise à jour - Janvier 2010 Table des matières1 Principaux enjeux dans le secteur des oléagineux2 Derniers développements et implications pour les ACP 2.1 Le marché international des oléagineux 2.1.1 Production 2.1.2 Consommation 2.1.3 Commerce 2.2 Evolutions du marché more...

Added by dukhan nathalia on March 17, 2010

Enjeux du commerce dans le secteur du coton pour les pays ACP

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Note de synthèse mise à jour - Mars 2010Table des matières1. Contexte et principaux enjeux du commerce dans le secteur du coton2. Derniers développements et implications pour les ACP 2.1 Le secteur cotonnier aujourd’hui : quels enjeux ? 2.1.1 Production cotonnière 2.1.2 Consommation 2.1.3 Flux more...

Added by dukhan nathalia on March 17, 2010

Enjeux des négociations commerciales (APE) entre l'Union Européenne et l'Afrique Centrale

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NOTE DE SYNTHESE MISE A JOUR - Mars 2010Table des matières1 Mise en perspective des négociations APE Afrique centrale-UE.2 Les avancées des négociations en 2009-2010. 2.1 L’APE Cameroun-UE: les premières suppressions de barrières tarifaire... 2.2 Les négociations pour un APE régional suspendues depuis février 2009. 2.2.1 Désaccord sur le degré de libéralisation et le more...

Added by dukhan nathalia on March 17, 2010

Enjeux des négociations commerciales (APE) entre l'Union Européenne et l'Afrique de l'Ouest

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NOTE DE SYNTHESE MISE A JOUR: Négociation de l'Accord de partenariat économiqueFévrier 2010; Table des matières:1. Mise en perspective des négociations APE entre l’UE et l’Afrique de l'Ouest2. Enjeux et défis des négociations APE en 2008/2009 2.1 Principaux faits marquants 2.1.1 La dimension régionale fragilisée 2.1.2 Les implications de la signature d’un APEI en Côte d’Ivoire et au... more...

Added by dukhan nathalia on March 17, 2010

News Update Agritrade. March 2010. Information and analysis of ACP-EU agricultural trade issues.

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CONTENT EPA negotiations: News * New trade commissioner sets out his viewsEPA negotiations: West Africa * EPA under increased scrutiny in west AfricaEPA negotiations: Central Africa * Disappointment continues to plague IEPA negotiationsEPA negotiations: Eastern and Southern Africa * EU urges EAC to sign IEPAMarket access and market developments * EU farmers’ organisation warns of dangers of retailer price warsCAP reform * New agriculture commissioner’s views welcomedWTO more...

Added by dukhan nathalia on March 17, 2010

Ghana Strategy Support Program

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The Ghana Strategy Support Program (GSSP) aims to build the capacity of agricultural stakeholders in Ghana to develop and implement agricultural and rural development policy reforms. This summary outlines findings from an IFPRI‐commissioned assessment of the GSSP’s performance from 2005 to 2008, which examined such factors as awareness of and comprehension of the program and its goals among intended beneficiaries, policy changes and other outcomes resulting from the program, and lessons more...

Added by Zunia on March 17, 2010

Agricultural growth, poverty, and nutrition in Tanzania

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Rapid economic growth has failed to significantly improve poverty and nutrition outcomes in Tanzania. This raises concerns over a decoupling of growth, poverty, and nutrition. We link recent production trends to household incomes using a regionalized, dynamic computable general equilibrium and micro simulation model. Results indicate that the structure of economic growth—not the level—is currently constraining the rate of poverty reduction in Tanzania. Most importantly, agricultural growth more...

Added by Zunia on March 17, 2010

The Impact of Shallow Tubewells and Boro Rice on Food Security in Bangladesh

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This paper traces the development of minor irrigation in Bangladesh and its impact on the country’s rice production and food security.

Added by Zunia on March 16, 2010

Technical and Environmental efficiencies and Best Management Practices in Agriculture

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An input distance function (IDF) is estimated to empirically evaluate and analyze the technical and environmental efficiencies of 210 farms located in the Chaudière watershed (Quebec), where water quality problems are particularly acute because of the production of undesirable outputs that are jointly produced with agricultural products.

Added by Zunia on March 16, 2010

Green and Blue Water Accounting in the Limpopo and Nile Basins

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This paper analyzes alternative water futures using a combined green and blue water accounting framework embedded within the water simulation components of IFPRI’s International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade (IMPACT). This analysis highlight the importance of green/blue water accounting and presents a wider range of agricultural science and technology policy options for increasing global crop productivity across a span of potential futures.

Added by Zunia on March 16, 2010

California Farm Water Success Stories

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This report analyzes successful examples of sustainable water policies and practices to demonstrate how innovative growers and irrigation districts are already beginning to move California toward more equitable and efficient water management and use. These practices are making a difference and there are steps, both in policy and on-the-ground, that can to help further them. Viable alternatives to traditional approaches can help California meet today’s water management challenges.

Added by Zunia on March 16, 2010

International Food Prices and Poverty in Indonesia

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This paper argues that recent increases in international food prices worsened poverty incidence in Indonesia, even though many poor farmers benefited. This conclusion is based on the application of a multi-sectoral, multihousehold general equilibrium model of the Indonesian economy.

Added by Zunia on March 14, 2010

Smart Investments in Sustainable Food Production: Revisiting Mixed Crop-Livestock Systems

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Farmers in mixed crop-livestock systems produce about half of the world’s food. In small holdings around the world, livestock are reared mostly on grass, browse, and nonfood biomass from maize, millet, rice, and sorghum crops and in their turn supply manure and traction for future crops. Animals act as insurance against hard times, and supply farmers with a source of regular income from sales of milk, eggs, and other products. Thus, faced with population growth and climate change, small-holder more...

Added by Zunia on March 14, 2010

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