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coordination to reduce food price volatility, including establishing strategic emergency food reserves, ensuring open trade, and …
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help government, industry and communities to identify priority actions to deliver trade, food safety and security and …
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ASEAN is host to seven of the world’s 25 biodiversity hotspots. Failure of governments and their peoples to protect and conserve the region’s rich biodiversity is one of the greatest threats to the over 500 million people of ASEAN. As in other areas of the developing world, biodiversity...
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Biodiversity is the basis for agriculture and for a sustainable future. More than 1.9 million living species have been described; millions more have gone extinct, including major branches of the tree of life. The distribution of this biological diversity is variable in space and time, although it...
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significant threat to sustainable production and trade. During the past decade, disease has devastated prawn farming in Asia and … growing trade in live aquatic animals, inevitably resulting in trans-boundary spread of disease and subsequent imposition of … trade barriers. Solutions to the growing disease menace lie in improved methods for rapid disease diagnosis and pathogen …
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selecting good candidate species for restoring and enhancing stocks in the wild, (2) making fish trade, development assistance … trade, and (3) managing natural fisheries resources to restore them and make them sustainable. …
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The world has observed an unprecedented rise in production, consumption and trade of fish during last three decades …. Developing countries as a whole supply nearly 75% of the fish, and represent 50% of the value of global fish trade. At a time … trade, and investigates the impact of fisheries practices on the natural environment, the crucial role of technology, and …
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There is a new and increasing emphasis on poverty alleviation and livelihoods improvement in forestry, representing both a challenge and an opportunity. This paper briefly reviews the evolution of the ‘livelihoods’ issue, analyses the concept of ‘poverty alleviation’ and discusses means...
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This talk reflects on the proceedings of the Crawford conference and provides a way forward in policy thinking. Effective food and agriculture policy decision-making requires clearer differentiation of countries by their stage of development. Operationally, it implies different approaches at the...
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investment and creative approaches. The Water-Efficient Maize for Africa (WEMA) project, a five-year public–private partnership …, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda are developing, testing and disseminating drought-tolerant maize. Efforts involve … withstand the increasing impacts of climate change in Africa. WEMA varieties under development have been licensed to AATF for …
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