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The need to grow cash crops has a negative effect on deforestation
30 07 2010 Deforestation arising from conversion of forest areas into agriculture is a serious problem in Malawi. This paper discusses competition for agricultural ...
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Value chain analysis: a standard guideline?
20 07 2010 This paper gives guidelines and presents a methodological strategy for the analysis of agrifood value chains. The guideline aims to provide information ...
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Towards better agricultural production through an accounting framework for green and blue water
20 07 2010 Water scarcity is a critical issue for food production in the poor developing countries because agriculture is the primary consumer of the dwindling freshwater ...
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A training manual on water management in agriculture in Ethiopia
20 07 2010 This training manual on agricultural water management has been prepared with the aim of providing reference and guidance materials on smallholders' ...
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Estimates of WTP for curative veterinary services in three states of India
20 07 2010
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Too many people and inadequate land management is leading to a crisis in pastoralism in Africa
20 07 2010
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Better integrated management of water resources and regulation is needed to manage chronic water scarcity in this region
20 07 2010 This FAO report aims to provide an accurate status of rural water resources management, with a special focus on irrigation, highlighting ...
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Are farmers in Tanzania still using technologies introduced during the TARPII-SUA programme?
20 07 2010 The objectives of this study are to find evidence to what extent farmers still use the technologies that were introduced during the TARPII-SUA programme ...
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Empowering Maasai women in Tanzania
20 07 2010 Maasai women are among the poorest and most marginalised groups in Tanzanian society. A local women-led organisation – the Pastoral Women's ...
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Low productivity in agriculture in Malawi not connected to low levels of labour
20 07 2010 Based on village surveys in diverse regions of Malawi, this study explores the features of labour use in smallholder agricultural production. The study ...
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Does the Malawian tobacco industry help the poorest?
20 07 2010 The economy of Malawi is heavily dependent on tobacco. Tobacco makes up the single-largest portion of Malawi's merchandise exports, generating about ...
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E-learning resources for agricultural information
20 07 2010 IMARK is an e-learning initiative in agricultural information management. It has been developed by FAO and partner organisations. IMARK is being ...
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Is it feasible to model water quality and quantity management?
20 07 2010 Water management in the Pirapama River Basin in northeastern Brazil is affected by both water quantity and water quality constraints. The region is known ...
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Improving the ability of small-scale fisheries in the developing world
20 07 2010 Diagnosis and adaptive management can help improve the ability of small-scale fisheries (SSF) in the developing world. This paper presents a framework ...
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Can Lesotho's households achieve food security by buying food rather than growing it?
20 07 2010 Food insecurity remains a major challenge for Lesotho. This report offers a brief review of strategic issues and options in support for food security ...
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Business as usual as the international food system adds damage to the climate crisis
20 07 2010 This article is about the inability of the global food system to fulfill its most basic function of feeding people while agribusiness corporations that ...
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FAO reporting on global hunger in 2009
20 07 2010 This is the tenth progress report on world hunger since the 1996 World Food Summit (WFS). It highlights that the food crisis has twinned with the economic ...
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Can user associations improve water management?
20 07 2010 In rural areas of Chile, where water is mostly used as an essential farm input via irrigation canals, Comunidades de Agua (CdA), or water communities, ...
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Negotiating agriculture into the climate change agenda
12 10 2009 Negotiations have been underway in advance of the meeting of the 15th Conference of Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) ...
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Participatory farming management methods and their uses
06 10 2009 Central to the use of Participatory Farming Management (PFM) methods is the understanding that the farmer is the decision maker and that he or she ...
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Responding to the threats that trade and trade rules pose to human rights
30 09 2009 This concise and simply-worded guide to the World Trade Organisation (WTO), published by 3D, contains pointers for individuals and groups concerned with ...
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Examining the risks of moving in and out of poverty in Bangladesh
30 09 2009 Poverty reduction will continue to be a principal objective of development policy. Despite the wealth of information on poverty in Bangladesh, rigorous ...
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Is GM a solution to hunger?
16 09 2009 With growing populations and declines in yield growth of basic food crops in the post-Green Revolution era, increasing yield growth is essential ...
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Is food safety policy an obstacle or driver of GM uptake?
16 09 2009 The politics of food safety is a highly contested field. Not only are there disputes about the safety and acceptability of particular products and processes, ...
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GM a solution to the food crisis?
16 09 2009 Transgenic crops are being put forward as a solution to the food crisis. The controversies that dogged their introduction, at least in Europe, are being ...
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