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fund for sudden or certain “losers” in globalization, who face loss of livelihood and recruitment to violence when cash …
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"We explore how globalization, broadly conceived to include international humanrights norms, humanitarianism, and … relationships between (1) conflict and food insecurity, (2) conflict and globalization, and (3) globalization and food insecurity … hunger and poverty. We conclude by exploring implications for agricultural development, trade, and human rights policies …
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impacts on growth and development. The global impact of malaria on human health, productivity, and general well-being is … world and assist in preparing a tool kit for capacity development on agriculture and malaria." from authors' abstract …
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"The current global agreement governing food aid—the Food Aid Convention (FAC)—will expire in 2007. It has come under heavy criticism as has the diffuse set of broader food aid governance institutions that has emerged in the last 50 years. These institutions are characterized by overlapping...
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"For 30 years, U.S. food and nutrition scientists and policymakers concerned with food and nutrition have explored the possibility of making the human right to food (HRF) the moral and legal cornerstone of U.S. domestic and international initiatives in this area. The U.S. government has...
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"Trade liberalization is expected to act positively on world economic development and poverty alleviation, both of … on assessing the expected benefits of trade liberalization on development. The main empirical tools for these assessments … implementation. This trade reform would be development-friendly, as it entails a larger growth rate of real income for developing …
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Since the publication of the World Development Report 2008, two related strands of research have emerged—one on the … validity of smallholder-led development strategy and the other on agricultural intensification under population pressure. The … former casts doubt about the role of agriculture in economic development in smallholders dominated countries and the later …
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Despite a wide range of reform initiatives in agricultural extension in India in the past decades, the coverage of, access to, and quality of information provided to marginalized and poor farmers is uneven. This paper aims to ascertain why farmers are not accessing information and where...
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producing countries and the key constraint of the sector remains its lack of innovation. Current production technology in the … concerns about the incentives and policies required to promote and sustain technological innovation in the sector." from text …
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