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• Inclusive Business Models for Access to Quality Fish Seed and Technical Assistance

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  Insights from Ghana Over the past decade, Ghana’s tilapia farming has experienced tremendous growth in production; however, much of the growth has been driven by large-scale cage farmers around Lake Volta. It remains unclear how this growth is and can be made more inclusive of poor and young women and men. This study was conducted […]

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• Better nutrition programming by focusing on maternal malnutrition

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  Good maternal nutrition is an important factor influencing newborn and child health and survival. While many nutritional programmes in the health sector incorporate interventions for (pregnant) women and girls, improved maternal nutritional status is often not the main focus. In current programming, the long-term, positive impact of improved maternal nutrition on health and productivity in […]

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• Institutional and organisational change in agri-food systems in developing and transitional countries: identifying opportunities for smallholders

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  Agri-food systems in developing and transitional countries are restructuring rapidly. Increasingly supermarkets have emerged in developing countries as important retailers, particularly for the high-value products meeting specific consumer demands related to production process and quality (Orden et al., 2004). In Latin America, supermarkets buy 2.5 times more produce from local farmers than the region exports […]

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• Decentralisation and gender equity in South Asia

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  Decentralisation, in its simplest definition, is a form of governance that transfers authority and responsibility from central to intermediate and local governments (ODI 2002). In much of the development literature decentralisation of government has been treated as a technical exercise involving administrative and institutional reform to improve performance and planning and to make allocative decisions […]

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• Economische gevolgen van verhoogde externe financiële middelen voor HIV/AIDS in lage inkomens landen

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  “For example, when I hear that countries are choosing to comply with medium-term expenditure ceilings at the expense of adequate funding of AIDS programs, it strikes me that someone isn’t looking hard enough for sound alternatives. And I recognize that such principles of fiscal discipline are in place for good reason, but surely there must […]

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• Realising Gender Equality and Women’s Rights in a Neoliberal Era

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  Securing sustainable spice supply

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• Le développement des chaînes de valeur au Mali

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