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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is a leading agency in the development of the value chain approach and in making it more applicable to the small-farmer agriculture context. If agribusiness development is to play a key role in reducing rural poverty, then governments will need to understand and have the capacity to create enabling conditions for agribusiness while...
What do the field reports tell us? That the situation of work burden and associated health problems in rural India is horrendous to say the least. All the reports point to severe reproductive health problems in women. In Uttarakhand, there is evidence that women are even becoming victims of mental problems. The anti-women trend in Tamil Nadu poses a serious threat to the survival of women. The...
The conversion of natural forests to pasture is a major driver of biodiversity loss and land degradation in Latin America. Expansion of livestock production continues to put pressure on remaining forested areas while decreasing the productive capacity of these landscapes.
The Matiguás–Río Blanco area in Nicaragua is located in a biological corridor. It harbours...
The Sinharaja World Heritage Site is Sri Lanka’s last remnant of virgin tropical rainforest. The districts bordering the Sinharaja forest are among the most densely populated in the country, but until recently very few families lived in the Sinharaja “buffer zone” directly bordering the forest reserve. There were no roads into the area, and the few established villages could...
This is the first in a series of three papers that examines the financing of services in developing countries. This paper focuses on external assistance in the form of aid and debt cancellation. The other papers in the series will focus on internal revenues; first, receipts from taxation and then receipts from extractive industries.
Without health and education, poor women and men...
Half of the children in Afghanistan still do not go to school despite a 500 per cent increase in enrolments in the last six years. With the establishment of democracy, the main symbol of national regeneration lay in the dream of educating every child – boy and girl. However, there remain many obstacles to achieving this dream.
Household contributions to education are steep...
Half of the children in Afghanistan still do not go to school despite a 500 per cent increase in enrolments in the last six years. With the establishment of democracy, the main symbol of national regeneration lay in the dream of educating every child – boy and girl. However, there remain many obstacles to achieving this dream.
Household contributions to education are steep...
The International Coffee Agreement (ICA) establishes the only dedicated intergovernmental forum for coffee-related matters: the International Coffee Organization (ICO). The ICO brings together various stakeholders — including coffee-importing and coffee-exporting countries, the private sector, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) — to discuss, negotiate and cooperate on shared...
L’Accord international sur le Café (AIC) établit l’unique forum intergouvernemental conçu pour débattre des questions ayant trait au café: l’Organisation internationale du café (OIC). L’OIC réunit différents acteurs – y compris les pays importateurs et exportateurs de café, le secteur privé, et...
El Convenio Internacional del Café (CIC) establece el único foro intergubernamental dedicado a los temas relacionados con el café: la Organización Internacional del Café (OIC). La OIC reúne a varios grupos de interés—incluyendo a países exportadores e importadores, el sector privado y Organizaciones No Gubernamentales (ONG)—...
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