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Étude de cas par pays, 2006
The latest major international development concerning the right to food took place in FAO in November 2004 when its Council unanimously adopted the Voluntary Guidelines on the Progressive Realization of the Right to Adequate Food...
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Étude technique, 2005
The purpose of this paper is to describe the methodology developed in the first phase of the project, for an empirical study of the economic relationship between seed systems, access to crop genetic resources and...
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ESA Working Paper 05-11
Document de travail, 2005
Improving access to food through broad-based participation in income-generating activities in key agricultural supply chains, together with the development of safety nets that protect the welfare of Liberia’s diverse types of vulnerable individuals and households...
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ESA Working Paper 05-10
Document de travail, 2005
Food security is a complex and multi-dimensional phenomenon. As such, its measurement may entail and benefit from the combination of both “qualitative-subjective” and “quantitative-objective” indicators. Yet, the evidence on the external validity of subjective-type information...
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ESA Working Paper 05-09
Document de travail, 2005
The past four decades have seen two waves of agricultural technology development and
diffusion to developing countries. The first wave was initiated by the Green Revolution in
which an explicit strategy for technology development and diffusion targeting...
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ESA Working Paper 05-08
Document de travail, 2005
Broad changes are taking place in agrifood systems worldwide. These changes are driven by economic development, increase in per caput incomes, changing technology and urbanization. Consumers are changing their dietary preferences and shopping habits, resulting...
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ESA Working Paper 05-07
Document de travail, 2005
While traditional food security analysis offers an ex post view on who the food insecure are and why they are so, looking at food insecurity from a vulnerability perspective provides a dynamic and forward-looking way...
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ESA Working Paper 05-06
Document de travail, 2005
Liberalization of Egyptian agricultural policy and new wheat technology has led to significant increases in area allocated to wheat as well as wheat yields. The wheat self-sufficiency ratio increased from 21 percent in 1986 to...
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ESA Working Paper 05-05
Document de travail, 2005
As an introduction to food aid this paper reviews various definitions of food aid and terminology used by practitioners and academics. It also briefly examines the size of food aid relative to Official Development Assistance,...
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Livre/chapitre d’un livre, 2005
The topics addressed in this book are of vital importance to the survival of humankind. Agricultural biodiversity, encompassing genetic
diversity as well as human knowledge, is the base upon which agricultural...
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