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Water Grows Food : Dry Season Farming, Food Sovereignty, and Integrated Water Resource Management in Burkina Faso
Orlove, Ben; Roncoli, Carla - 2013
Karim could be confused with one of millions of African smallholder farmers who tend small plots of land for their subsistence. He grows three hectares of maize and one hectare of vegetables in a small village in southwestern Burkina Faso. He and his family plow their field with a pair of oxen,...
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Enhancing access to the global food manufacturing value chain : the role of a food safety technical regulation in Ghana
Mensah, Lena Dzifa; Julien, Denyse - In: Journal of international food & agribusiness marketing … 23 (2011) 3, pp. 247-270
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Cooperation in transboundary water sharing under climate change
Bhaduri, Anik; Manna, Utpal; Barbier, Edward; Liebe, Jens - 2009
and downstream country, Burkina Faso and Ghana respectively, where the latter country faces a tradeoff of water use … between the countries sustaining in the event of climate change. Our results indicate that during cooperation, Ghana will have … stromabwärts gelegenen Ghana, das vor der Aufgabe steht, zwischen der landwirtschaftlichen Nutzung des Wassers im Norden und der …
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Global agricultural market trends and their impacts on European Union agriculture
Witzke, Harald von; Noleppa, Steffen; Schwarz, Gerald - 2008
The economic, political and climatic conditions in which farmers around the world have to make their production and investment decisions are changing dramatically. This study analyses the driving forces of changes in agricultural world markets and their implications for European Union...
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India's political economy responses to the global food price shock of 2007 - 08 : learning some lessons
Gulati, Ashok; Saini, Shweta - 2015
India's policy responses to the food price crisis were strong. Exports of basic staples were banned. Domestic support prices of wheat and rice were raised substantially. The urea price increases in global markets were absorbed through enhanced fertilizer subsidies. The government launched the...
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Seeing “invisible water”: challenging conceptions of water for agriculture, food and human security
Swatuk, Larry A.; McMorris, Meghan; Leung, Charmaine; … - In: Canadian journal of development studies 36 (2015) 1, pp. 24-37
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A rights-based food security principle for biomass sustainability standards and certification systems
Mohr, Anna; Beuchelt, Tina; Schneider, Rafae͏̈l; … - 2015
With the shift from petroleum-based to biomass-based economies, global biomass demand and trade is growing. This trend could become a threat to food security. Though rising concerns about sustainability aspects have led to the development of voluntary certification standards to ensure that...
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A common sense approach to the right to food
Hossain, Naomi; Lintelo, Dolfte; Kelbert, Alexandra Wanjiku - 2015
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Fair enough? : food security and the international trade of seafood
Asche, Frank; Bellemare, Marc F.; Roheim, Cathy A.; … - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 67 (2015), pp. 151-160
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