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Gender, Agricultural Development and Food Security in Amhara, Ethiopia: The...

While women take an active role in agricultural production and processing and marketing of food products their identity as farmers is highly contested within the agricultural development framework in...

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Costs of Agricultural Adaptation to Climate Change

Climate change will have large, but still uncertain, effects on agriculture. This report provides estimates of the impacts on human well-being through effects on agricultural production, prices, and...

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Leveraging Private Sector Investment in Developing Country Agrifood Systems

This policy paper describes and analyzes private-sector investment in sustainable food security. Tags: 2011, agriculture, Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Document, Economic Development, Food...

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Cattle Raiding in Karamoja: A Conflict and Market Assessment

This report offers a combined conflict and market assessment looking at the relationship between cattle raiding and economic development in the Karamoja region of Uganda. Tags: 2011, agriculture,...

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Enabling Agricultural Extension for Peacebuilding

Feature Description:  Andrew Robertson explains how agricultural extension systems could help farming communities in post-conflict regions. Tags: 2012, agriculture, Colombia, Congo, Democratic Republic...

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Africa is Wide Awake But Still Hungry

In this paper from Oxfam, Ricardo Fuentes-Nieva and Richard King explain several reasons to be optimistic about Africa despite the fact that hunger remains pervasive. I Tags: 2012, Africa...

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Is My Fair Trade Coffee Really Fair? Trends and Challenges in Fair Trade...

Feature Description:  Kimberly Elliott of the Center for Global Development discusses the realities and challenges of global fair trade. Tags: 2012, agriculture, Document, Economic Development, Fair...

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Connecting the Drops: An Indus Basin Roadmap for Cross-Border Water Research...

This report from the Stimson Center explains the results of a recent cross-border dialogue between Indian and Pakistan to asses the growing stresses on their common water resources. Tags: 2013,...

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The Impact of the National Agricultural Advisory Services Program on...

Tags: 2013, agriculture, Document, Economic Development, Public Private Partnerships, Uganda, Vulnerable Populationsread more

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The Growing Battle between Mining and Agriculture

Written by Keith Slack, Extractive Industries Global Program Manager, Oxfam AmericaTags: agriculture, Conflict Prevention, Extractive Industries, Food Security, Natural Resource Managementread more

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Promises, Power, and Poverty: Corporate Land Deals and Rural Women in Africa

In this paper from Oxfam, an assessment of the impact of rapid land investment in Africa is having on women’s land-use options, on their livelihoods, on food availability and the cost of living, and,...

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Advancing Global Food Security: The Power of Science, Trade, and Business

This report from The Chicago Council on Global Affairs urges the U.S. government to focus its global food security strategy on prioritizing science, increasing trade flows for agriculture and food,...

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Long-Term Drivers of Food Prices

This World Bank paper examines the relative contribution of various sector and macroeconomic drivers to price changes of five food commodities. Tags: 2013, agriculture, Document, Economic Development,...

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Managing Price Risk in Local Food Reserves: Analyzing the Prospects for a...

Feature Description:  This Oxfam report analyzes a way to help local food reserves overcome their vulnerability to price cycle inversions. This research report from Oxfam analyzes the possibility of...

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Policy Options for Agricultural Investments and Governance of Markets: In...

This research report from Oxfam examines the role of policy in influencing corporate investment in agricultural land, production and primary processing. Tags: 2013, agriculture, Document, Economic...

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Revisiting the Quality of Agricultural Official Development Assistance

This policy brief finds that the quality of official development assistance (ODA) varies widely, with multilateral donors generally doing better on average than bilateral donors. Tags: 2013,...

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Stability and the Economy: Cooperative Game Theoretic Implications for...

How does the structure of the economy affect the possibility for societal stability? This paper employs a cooperative game theory lens to explore possibilities for cooperation and chaos under various...

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Subsidizing Farmers and Biofuels in Rich Countries: An Incoherent Agenda for...

Feature Description:  This CGD paper highlights several incoherent rich-world agriculture policies and concludes with reform recommendations. The CGD paper highlights a few areas where...

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