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EPIC Policy Brief No. 4
Policy brief, 2015
This brief summarizes the results of analyses of Shan tea and Arabica coffee value chains in the Northern Mountainous Region of Viet Nam in order to better understand how they are affected by climate change...
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Policy brief, 2015
In recent years, government's investments in agriculture have focused on increasing land under irrigation, subsidizing inputs, strengthening the agricultural extension service and reforming agricultural sector institutions through the privatization of a number of parastatals. Although...
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Policy brief, 2015
In Senegal, the government has given great importance and priority to the development and promotion of national rice production to achieve self-sufficiency by 2017. Besides, emphasis has been placed on risk management with the creation...
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Debating India’s national food security law
Country case study, 2015
This book provides an overview of the most important debates which ensued in the four and a half years of the official writing and consideration of the India’s National Food Security Act food law, which...
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Policy brief, 2015
The government of Burundi has timidly decreased State involvement in strategic value chains, with a view to open the market, enhance effectiveness, and reduce the fiscal deficit. With regards to social protection, no specific national...
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ESA Working Paper 15-02
Working paper, 2015
Climate variability, associated with farm-income variability, is recognized as one of the main drivers of livelihood diversification strategies in developing countries. Analysing determinants of livelihood diversification choices, to better understand household strategic behaviour in the...
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Manual/guidelines, 2015
Contract farming, broadly understood as agricultural production and marketing carried out under a previous agreement between producers and their buyers, supports the production of a wide range of agricultural commodities and its use is growing...
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Information product, 2015
This brief explains the FIRST programme, an outcome of the partnership between FAO and the EU. The main purpose of the FIRST programme is to strengthen the enabling environment for food and nutrition security and...
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Information product, 2015
The Programme aims at providing technical and analytical as well as capacity development support to relevant regional institutions and national government institutions involved in food and nutrition security, and resilience analysis for policy and programming...
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Policy brief, 2015
Uganda is putting significant efforts toward addressing the constraints responsible for its low agricultural productivity, which affects farmers’ incomes and therefore, their food security. The biggest developments are being seen in improving the added value...
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