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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...
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"Good health and productive agriculture are both essential in the fight against poverty. In a rapidly changing world … new (globalization, environmental degradation, problems of maintaining production in conflict situations). At the same … arsenal of effective interventions. And as the world becomes more integrated, so do the agricultural and health problems the …
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This 2012 Global Food Policy Report is the second in an annual series that provides an in-depth look at major food policy developments and events. Initiated in response to resurgent interest in food security, the series offers a yearly overview of the food policy developments that have...
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dualistic game of voracious property types. In exporting this game world wide through privatization, international agreements … implications of such voracious property for biodiversity. " Author's Abstract …
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products, including underutilized species and commodities in several regions of the world. This paper explores how the theory … development of poor communities that manage agricultural biodiversity." authors' abstract …
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are important to maintaining biodiversity and to human welfare; failing to recognize them presents dangers. The case study …
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"Biodiversity provides essential components of healthy environments and sustainable livelihoods. One key component of … biodiversity is agrobiodiversity—that is, the cultivated plants and animals that form the raw material of agriculture, the wild …
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"In Mali, liberalization of seed markets for sorghum and millet, the staple food crops, has not advanced at the same rate or with the same measurable success as liberalization of grain markets. Most seed of these crops is uncertified and continues to be supplied to farmers by farmers, according...
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stronger intellectual property rights, investments in crop research and the landscape of plant transformation research have …
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security in maize. However, the sustainability of the milpa system has been threatened by off-farm employment opportunities …
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