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Comparative analysis of the national biosafety regulatory systems in East Africa:
Jaffe, Gregory - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006
"This paper analyzes the current and proposed biosafety systems in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda using a set of components and characteristics common to functional and protective biosafety regulatory systems. It also assesses how those systems take into account the major international legal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004996680
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Seeds of contention: World hunger and the global controversy over genetically modified crops
Pinstrup-Andersen, Per (contributor);  … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
The authors assess the role various strategies can play in augmenting global food supplies and combating hunger.They attempt to defuse the contentious debate surrounding the development and spread of genetically modified (GM) foods, which, they argue, can help meet the needs of the poor.The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010752693
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Understanding the links between agriculture and health:
Hawkes, Corinna; Ruel, Marie T. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006
CONTENTS: 1.Overview / Corinna Hawkes and Marie T. Ruel; 2. Agriculture, Food, and Health: Perspectives on a Long … Relationship / Tim Lang; 3. Agricultural Technology and Health / Michael Lipton, Saurabh Sinha, and Rachel Blackman; 4. Agriculture … and Nutrition Linkages: Old Lessons and New Paradigms / Corinna Hawkes and Marie T. Ruel; 5. Agriculture, Food Safety, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004996502
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Overview: understanding the links between agriculture and health
Hawkes, Corinna; Ruel, Marie T. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006
"Good health and productive agriculture are both essential in the fight against poverty. In a rapidly changing world …, agriculture faces many challenges, both old (natural resource constraints, extreme weather conditions, and agricultural pests) and … new (globalization, environmental degradation, problems of maintaining production in conflict situations). At the same …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004996899
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Agriculture, food, and health perspectives on a long relationship: understanding the links between agriculture and health
Lang, Tim - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006
"Agriculture produces food fundamental for human health. It therefore seems obvious that agriculture, food, and health … are related! Agriculture affects whether people have enough food to eat, whether it is of sufficient nutritional value … different ways of looking at the relationships between agriculture, food, and health. Agricultural connections to food and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004996953
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Agriculture, food safety, and foodborne diseases: understanding the links between agriculture and health
Todd, Ewen C. D.; Narrod, Clare - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006
"To improve the ability of farmers in developing countries to reduce the burden of foodborne illness, government agencies need to take the following steps: (1) Implement a farm-to-table approach to agricultural health by focusing efforts on the prevention of potential food safety and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004996967
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Aligning public expenditure for agricultural development priorities under rapid transformation: The case of China:
Yu, Bingxin; Chen, Kevin Z.; Zhang, Haisen - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
. China shifted away from taxing agriculture to supporting agriculture in the mid-2000s, but the sector faces mounting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114782
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Strategies to control aflatoxin in groundnut value chains:
Florkowski, Wojciech J.; Kolavalli, Shashidhara - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
Groundnuts, which are widely consumed in West Africa, are prone to contamination by aflatoxin during production and storage. Although aflatoxin plays a role in many of the important health risks in developing countries, individuals and governments ignore the risks because their health effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132655
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Firm heterogeneity in food safety provision: Evidence from aflatoxin tests in Kenya:
Moser, Christine; Hoffmann, Vivian - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2015
The lack of a reliably safe food supply in developing countries imposes major costs on both public health and market performance. This paper addresses the question of whether and why food processing firms voluntarily invest in food safety in the absence of effective regulatory enforcement. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011200215
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Agriculture and HIV/AIDS: understanding the links between agriculture and health
Gillespie, Stuart - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006
"Agriculture is the main source of livelihood of the majority of people affected by HIV and AIDS globally, and it is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004996995