This document provides an overview of various topics related to agriculture including:
- Food security prospects in the Sahel, West, southern, and East Africa regions.
- Agroecology practices in Kenya that have increased farmer productivity and reduced greenhouse gas emissions.
- Hurricane damage to Jamaica's agriculture sector, particularly coffee and banana crops, totaling over €11.8 million. The government is providing support to farmers.
- A table of contents for the magazine issue covering niche markets, dairy products, labor conditions, and an interview.
Planting for Arid Areas, Using Groasis Boxes to Reduce Water Usage by 80 Percent
1. NICHE MARKETS
Venturing beyond
certification
DAIRy pRoDUCTS
Local milk
a hot item
Ongoing
projects
INTERVIEW
Sean de Cleene,
senior vice president
for yara International
LABOUR CONDITIONS
N°162
FEBRUARY-MARCH 2013
The magazine
for agricultural and
rural development
in ACp countries
http://spore.cta.int
4. W
hen shoppers in 61 countries buy coconut
oil-based cosmetics at The Body Shop, that
oil comes from Samoa - an island that, like
many in the Pacific, struggled for decades to
overcome the collapse of the copra trade. Now virgin coco-
nut oil is produced on-farm through whole nut process-
ing, and the cosmetics giant buys all the oil that Samoan
farmers can produce. The product is not only opening up
a new market for an iconic tree crop in Samoa, it’s also
allowing farmers to earn a larger share of the price, and
to develop the country’s own high quality brand within
that market.
Over the last two decades, these and other producers
have benefited from access to niche markets that reward
the very attributes which usually disadvantage smallhold-
ers in the crowded commodity trade. During that time,
certifications such as fair trade and organic became almost
synonymous with the idea of niche markets. In crops such
as bananas, coffee and sugar, some farmers overcame the
costs and challenges of compliance to reach for the price
premiums that came with special certification marks.
Ethical consumers in the developed world were willing to
pay these premiums for marks like Fairtrade and Rainforest
Alliance Certified. More than 6,000 fair trade products
are now on sale in 25 countries, while sales of organic
products have more than tripled in the past decade. In UK
supermarkets, more than a quarter of all bananas and a
third of all sugar is sold under a fair trade label, including
major brands such as Tate & Lyle sugar.
As certified products move into the mainstream, they
may not remain ‘niche’ for long. When fair trade bananas
from a small Caribbean island sit on the shelf next to
much cheaper fair trade bananas from advanced export-
ers such as Ecuador, customers take the low price, secure
in the knowledge that they are still supporting fair trade.
At this point, small producers fall back into a market of
fierce competition and marginalisation, further burdened
by the costs of earning certified marks. With these markets
filling up, a more creative diversity of approaches will be
needed, with individual countries and producer groups
defining their own niches. Venturing beyond certification,
products have to stand alone, earning premiums based
on processing, branding, unique qualities, or exotic ori-
gins, all catering to a wider range of tastes and cultural
connections.
From commodity to brand
Sugarcane has driven Caribbean economies for centu-
ries, but today this strongly commodified crop seems to
offer little scope for growth or development. Fair trade
and organic markets have become nearly as crowded as
the main channels, with cheaper certified products edging
out small island developing states.
Striking out beyond these labels, Barbados’s West Indies
Sugar & Trading Company (Wistco) has spent years
NICHE MARKETS
Venturing beyond
certification
Drying coconut
gratings for coconut
oil production,
Samoa
Certification programmes such as fair trade and organic have allowed
small producers to step out of bulk commodity export markets and
into higher value niches in the last two decades. But as these markets
too are filling up, with increased competition from developing
countries, ACP producers are faced with having to carve out niches
of their own - and there are no simple criteria for success.
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4 | Spore 162 | FEBRUARy-MARCH 2013
14. F
ollowing the miners’ strikes in South Africa, farm
workers in the country have been demonstrat-
ing since early November 2012 to demand wage
increases. Most of these workers earn ZAR69 to
75 (€6 to €6.4) a day, which is close to the lowest pay in
the country. The working and housing conditions are also
often deplorable and were denounced by Human Rights
Watch (HRW) in its August 2011 report on the situa-
tion on wealthy fruit farms and vineyards in the Western
Cape region. HRW singled out the lack of decent hous-
ing, exposure to pesticides without proper safety equip-
ment, the absence of access to toilets or drinking water
at working sites and the efforts of the employers to deter
farm workers from forming unions. In developing coun-
tries low pay and harsh working conditions are often the
common fate of farm workers and smallholders.
Poverty and child labour
This precarious situation encourages the use of
child labour in the fields and forces large numbers of
people out of rural areas and into cities. According to
the International Labour Office, the agricultural sector
alone accounts for around 70% of child labour world-
wide. “Some agricultural activities - mixing and apply-
ing pesticides, using certain types of machinery - are so
dangerous that children should be clearly prohibited
from engaging in them,” indicates Parviz Koohafkan,
Director of FAO’s Rural Development Division. However,
not all of the work that children do is harmful to their
development. “When it comes to subsistence and family
agriculture, children’s participation in family farm activi-
ties helps them learn valuable skills, build self-esteem
and contribute to the generation of household income,
which has a positive impact on their own livelihoods,”
says Koohafkan.
At the international level, several conventions drawn
up by the International Labour Organization (ILO) have
been adopted to combat child labour, including the
Minimum Age Convention No. 138 (1973) and the Worst
Forms of Child Labour Convention No. 182 (1999). The
first specifies that light work, which does not prejudice
attendance at school, may be tolerated from the age of
12, while work that is not classified as dangerous may be
carried out by youths of at least 15 years old. The second
convention aims to eliminate the worst forms of child
labour, i.e. slavery or comparable practices, such as the
sale and trafficking of children, debt bondage and serf-
dom, forced or compulsory labour, and work which, by
its nature or the circumstances in which it is carried out,
is likely to harm the health, safety or morals of children.
Convention No. 182 was ratified by 176 countries in April
2012. Among ACP countries, only Eritrea, the Marshall
Islands, Somalia and Vanuatu have not yet signed.
The child labour situation varies, however, in differ-
ent ACP regions. In Caribbean countries, child labour is
used to different extents but it is believed that the worst
forms are not widespread. A 2005 study by the Bureau of
Statistics of Guyana on child labour revealed that children
working on farms were subject to most of the common
hazards including, “heavy workloads, inappropriate use of
agrochemicals and cutting tools, as well as other physi-
cal hazards.” Agricultural child labour in the Caribbean
is usually carried out on family farms or, but less com-
monly, as part of a community activity. In Amerindian vil-
lages in Guyana, for instance, children naturally take part
in the agricultural, fishing and hunting activities of their
community.
A child
ploughing
a field in
Burkina Faso
DOSSIER
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21. Whether as a food or a raw material
for the animal feed and starch indus-
tries, cassava production in the tropics has
many advantages over its rival, maize.
Tolerance of low soil fertility, acidity and
drought are just some of the attributes of
a crop which is synonymous with stabil-
ity, even during extreme weather events.
But despite its natural advantages, cassava
needs to be more competitive, with more
productive cultivars that meet the differing
needs of industry and consumers, strength-
ening of new markets, and value addition,
such as further development of nutrient-
rich varieties.
This comprehensive volume, updated
from the 2002 publication La Yuca en el
Tercer Milenio, summarises the current state
of knowledge in cassava cultivation and
research, including agronomic practice,
approaches to pest and disease manage-
ment, improved methods of breeding and
field operation, and postharvest manage-
ment technologies for different markets. It
is complemented by a practical field hand-
book to aid identification of major cassava
pests, diseases and nutritional disorders.
Cassava in the Third Millennium:
Modern Production, Processing,
Use and Marketing Systems
By B ospina & H Ceballos
CIAT/CLAyUCA/CTA, 2012; 584 pp.
ISBN 978-95-8694-112-9
CTA no. 1712
80 credit points
Practical Handbook
for Managing Cassava Diseases,
Pests and Nutritional Disorders
By E Álvarez et al.
CIAT/CLAyUCA/CTA, 2012; 120 pp.
ISBN 978-95-8694-113-6
CTA no. 1713
5 credit points
How to write
Effective science writing is
essential, not only for career
progression, but to ensure that research out-
puts are disseminated and used. Preparing
a paper for publication in a scientific jour-
nal can be a daunting challenge, not least
because of the myriad conventions that must
be observed. But the well structured guid-
ance presented here, complemented by sug-
gestions for training activities, should instil
confidence in those new to paper-writing, or
looking to improve their rate of acceptance.
This highly practical manual explains the
technicalities of effective science writing in
clear, reader-friendly language. Topics cov-
ered include: choosing the target audience
and selecting the most appropriate journal to
reach them; identifying ‘significant results’;
understanding the main component sec-
tions of a paper; language and style; using
tables and illustrations; reporting statistics;
and making citations and references. Further
chapters discuss oral presentations, writing
posters, proposals and reports, online pub-
lishing and communicating with non-scien-
tific audiences.
Scientific Writing for
Agricultural Research
Scientists: A Training
Resource Manual
Edited by A youdeowei, p
Stapleton & R obubo
CTA, 2012; 192 pp.
ISBN 978-92-9081-506-8
CTA no. 1700
20 credit points
Downloadable as pDF file from:
http://tinyurl.com/c8n2s4e
Root crop reference
Green economies
Home to more than 50
million people, Small Island
Developing States (SIDS) tend to be
extremely vulnerable to environmental
and economic shocks. To enhance
the resilience of SIDS, this brief
highlights the importance of making
small islands part of the global green
economy, increasing power through
unity, economic diversification,
mainstreaming agriculture and
stemming the ‘brain drain’.
Building Resilience in Small Island Economies:
From Vulnerabilities to Opportunities
By J Haskins
CTA, 2012; 4 pp.
CTA no. PB008E
Downloadable as pDF file from:
http://tinyurl.com/bhdj5bh
@
Sustainability
To feed the world’s rapidly
expanding population,
farmers will have to produce as much
food in the next 40 years as they have in
the past 8,000. Meeting this challenge
will be made all the more difficult by
climate change. In response, this brief
calls on governments to promote policies
that encourage ‘climate-smart’ agriculture
and encourage research into the best ways
of helping farmers reduce greenhouse gas
emissions and adapt to climate change.
Promoting Climate-Smart Agriculture
in ACP Countries
By C pye-Smith
CTA, 2012; 4 pp.
CTA no. PB009E
Downloadable as pDF file from:
http://tinyurl.com/c5zc6w8
@
@ Funding
To help determine future agricultural
policy and research directions, this
paper synthesises knowledge on the
impact of public investments in and
for agriculture in developing countries.
The paper highlights, for example, the
potential for agricultural investments
to have significant effects on health
and nutrition, with biofortification
programmes shown to be particularly
cost-effective.
The Impacts of Public Investment in and for
Agriculture
By T Mogues et al.
IFpRI, 2012; 72 pp.
Downloadable as pDF file from:
http://tinyurl.com/bko5e8b
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FEBRUARy-MARCH 2013 | SpoRE 162 | 21
22. As the global population has doubled and■
doubled again during the last 100 years,
agriculture has managed to meet the hugely
increased demand for food. But it has been
achieved at a high cost, with depleted and
eroded soils and compromised water sup-
plies, while many remain impoverished,
malnourished and hungry. How to transform
agriculture to achieve even greater output
but without such environmental and human
costs is the challenge answered by Living
with the Trees of Life.
The book critiques the successes and short-
comings of modern agriculture before con-
sidering how incorporating trees in farming
systems - agroforesty - could make good the
lack of soil nutrients, while improved man-
agement of water would simultaneously halt
erosion and better utilise available moisture,
all to the benefit of producers and consum-
ers. Agroforesty systems are low input but
provide potentially much higher output than
many widely practised cropping systems. The
only obstacle in adopting the practise more
widely, argues Leakey, is a lack of political
will and appropriate policies.
Seasonality
The Last Hunger Season:
A Year in an African Farm
Community on the Brink
of Change
By R Thurow
public Affairs, 2012; 304 pp.
ISBN 978-16-1039-067-5
US$26.99 • €21
public Affairs
1094 Flex Drive
Jackson, TN 38301
USA
www.publicaffairsbooks.com
Innovation in Seed
Potato Systems in East
Africa
By p R Gildemacher
KIT publishers, 2012; 184 pp.
ISBN 978-94-6022-211-5
€25
Downloadable as pDF file
from: http://tinyurl.com/
bgpeayg
KIT publishers
postbus 95001
1090 HA Amsterdam
The Netherlands
www.kitpublishers.nl
Living with the Trees
of Life: Towards the
Transformation of
Tropical Agriculture
By R Leakey
CABI, 2012; 200 pp.
ISBN: 978-17-8064-098-3
£27.50 • €34
CABI publishing
Nosworthy Way
Wallingford
oX10 8DE, UK
www.cabi.org
Most of Africa’s food production is from■
small subsistence farms; the aim of this
book is to demonstrate how small farmers,
often dismissed as marginal by policymak-
ers, can, with the right assistance, sustain-
ably increase yields without damaging
their environment. The author recounts the
struggles of four host families in western
Kenya, who are assisted to improve their
subsistence farming practices through loans
and training made available by a US-based
NGO, One Acre.
The Last Hunger Season describes the con-
ditions of village life, the social interactions,
and the poverty that limits or denies health
and education. Written in the form of a
diary, successive chapters chronicle the lives
of the farmers from the dry season to the
rains, the hunger gap, harvest and second
planting, and the festival days that close
the year. It highlights the challenges the
villagers face and the choices they have to
make as they struggle to overcome hunger.
By trial and error, the farmers learn how to
grow more to feed their families and pro-
vide better lives for their children.
Cutting edge
Potato yields in eastern Africa are well■
below the world average. To boost farmer
incomes and improve food security in the
region, Innovation in Seed Potato Systems
in East Africa highlights the importance of
improving the quality of seed potatoes as
a key strategy for increased production.
Currently, farmers largely rely on farm-
saved seed potatoes, given the absence of
affordable high quality seed potatoes and
limited market security. Other technology
based opportunities for innovation include
integrated management of bacterial wilt and
late blight, and soil fertility management.
Improvement of potato supply chains
and enhancing knowledge exchange in
the sector are identified as more systemic
opportunities to strengthen the potato sec-
tor. The author also highlights the central
importance of innovation, and of research-
ers’ room to manoeuvre and immerse them-
selves in partnerships with practitioners. “It
is worthwhile to search for opportunities for
incremental innovation,” the author con-
cludes, “and these opportunities can be of a
surprisingly simple nature.”
Forestry
Hunger
With almost 870 million people, or one
in eight, chronically undernourished in
2010-2012, the number of hungry people
in the world remains unacceptably high;
the vast majority – about 850 million
- live in developing countries. The UN
hunger report reveals that progress
in reducing hunger has slowed since
the 2007-2008 economic crisis, but
that agricultural growth is particularly
effective in reducing hunger and
malnutrition.
The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2012
By FAo, WFp & IFAD
FAo, 2012; 63 pp.
ISBN 978-92-5107-316-2
Downloadable as pDF file from:
http://tinyurl.com/ar3cw63
Biodiversity
Many of the world’s poorest people
depend on resources they gather from
highly diverse ecosystems. This paper
examines how interventions to improve
the livelihoods of forest users can also
conserve biodiversity. With case studies
from Burkina Faso, Mali and Uganda,
the paper argues for a ‘landscape’
approach, where livelihoods are
improved through restoring the
functionality of forest landscapes.
Improving Ecosystem Functionality and
Livelihood
By E Barrow, R Fisher & J Gordon
IUCN, 2012; 20 pp.
ISBN 978-28-3171-496-7
Downloadable as pDF file from:
http://tinyurl.com/b6kv52z
Profiting from waste
Today, 2.5 billion people rely on
wood, charcoal and dung as their
principal sources of energy for cooking
and heating. This paper assesses
the potential of the livestock sector
as a renewable energy source and
considers the viability of biogas and
other technologies for small-scale
farmers and livestock keepers. It aims
to support the design of appropriate
livestock development interventions.
Livestock and Renewable Energy
By A Rota et al.
IFAD, 2012; 42 pp.
ISBN 978-92-9072-334-9
Downloadable as pDF file from:
http://tinyurl.com/cmqfxe4
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23. One Billion Hungry: Can We
Feed the World?
By G Conway & K Wilson
Cornell University press, 2012;
427 pp.
ISBN 978-08-0147-802-4
£15.50 • €20
Cornell University press
Box 6525, 750 Cascadilla Street
Ithaca, Ny 14851-6525
USA
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu
What is the Matter with
African Agriculture?
Veterans’ Visions Between
Past and Future
Edited by H Mutsaers & p
Kleene
KIT, 2012; 384 pp.
ISBN: 978-94-6022-178-1
€24.50
For KIT’s address, see p22
The Global Farms Race:
Land Grab, Agricultural
Investment, and the
Scramble for Food
Security
By M Kugelman & S
Levenstein
Island press, 2012; 248 pp.
ISBN: 978-16-1091-187-0
US$25 • €20
Island press
2000 M Street NW, Suite
650
Washington, DC 20036
USA
www.islandpress.org
Expert opinion
Drawing on half a century of experi-■
ence, 40 veteran agriculturalists review the
achievements, failures and challenges facing
African agriculture. Most argue strongly in
favour of family farming, but emphasise that
in order to feed the ever growing population
it must evolve, becoming more mechanised,
commercialised, diversified and sustainable.
Secure land rights and equitable access to
land are seen as essential for vibrant and pro-
gressive farming, and there is consensus on
the importance of ‘value chain’ approaches
to agricultural production, as well as the
value of strong farmer organisations and
cooperatives, strong research and extension
support, improved infrastructure and private
sector development. Another key area is the
formulation of policies and trade regulations
that create an enabling environment, liber-
alise markets, ensure equity and protect the
environment.
“We hope that the next generation will
take advantage of our experience and learn
from our errors, thereby becoming more suc-
cessful in pulling African farming out of its
stagnation,” the authors conclude.
Green revolution
Six decades after the technological inno-■
vations of the Green Revolution, hunger
remains a daily reality for a billion peo-
ple. With an increasing population, climate
change, rising food prices and a limit on
our natural resources, feeding the world
on no more land with less water becomes
an even greater challenge. Yet Professor Sir
Gordon Conway is optimistic about a food
secure world in 2050. In One Billion Hungry,
Conway calls for a ‘doubly green revolution’
a revolution that needs to be at least as pro-
ductive as the first, and yet more conserving
of natural resources.
Conway stresses the need for greater
breeding focus on previously neglected cere-
als, pulses and tubers, for increased emphasis
on home gardens for nutritionally rich vege-
tables, more widespread intercropping, relay
cropping, using leguminous trees and shrubs
for shade and for mulching in the tropics and
for more irrigation in Africa with better utili-
sation of water everywhere. Another priority,
he believes, is genetic modification research
to boost performance and stress-resilience of
plants and livestock.
Land rush
Nearly 230 million ha of farmland - an■
area equivalent to the size of western Europe
- have been sold or leased since 2001, with
most of these transactions occurring since
2008. As the deals continue, understand-
ing them, and their consequences, is vital,
not least because the trend has considerable
implications for several major 21st
century
challenges, including food security, natural
resource management and climate change.
The Global Farms Race aims to equip readers
with a proper grounding in this scramble for
the world’s soils.
In supporting a more sophisticated under-
standing of large-scale land acquisition, this
book offers diverse perspectives, featuring
contributions from agricultural investment
consultants, farmers’ organisations, inter-
national NGOs and academics. The book
addresses historical context, environmental
impacts and social effects, and covers all
the major geographic areas of investment in
order to examine this growing trend in all
its complexity, considering the implications
for investors, host countries, and the world
as a whole.
Biofuel
The global demand for bioenergy is
growing rapidly because of climate
change mitigation policies and
increasing oil prices. This can create
income opportunities and improve
access to energy in rural areas but
bioenergy development can also
increase the pressure on land and water
resources. This report aims to help
policy-makers understand and manage
the risks and opportunities of bioenergy
development for food security.
Impacts of Bioenergy on Food Security
Edited by H Thofern & A Rossi
FAo, 2012; 60 pp.
ISBN 978-92-5107-151-9
Downloadable as pDF file from:
http://tinyurl.com/c54dohz
Food security
The 2012 Global Hunger Index, which
tracks global hunger by region and
country, reveals 20 countries with
‘alarming’ or ‘extremely alarming’ levels
of hunger. The report focuses on how to
ensure sustainable food security under
conditions of water, land and energy
stress. On-the-ground perspectives on
land tenure issues are provided, as well
as the impacts of scarce land, water and
energy on poor people in Sierra Leone
and Tanzania.
2012 Global Hunger Index
By K von Grebmer et al.
IFpRI/Concern Worldwide/Welthungerhilfe, 2012; 70 pp.
ISBN 978-08-9629-942-9
Downloadable as pDF file from:
http://tinyurl.com/967sc3k
Food intake
While over 900 million people in
the world suffer from hunger, about
1.5 billion are overweight or obese
and an estimated 2 billion suffer
from micronutrient malnutrition. To
improve the health of humans and the
planet, this paper calls for immediate
action to promote ‘sustainable diets’,
emphasising the positive role of food
biodiversity in human nutrition and
poverty alleviation.
Sustainable Diets and Biodiversity
Edited by B Burlingame & S Dernini
FAo, 2012; 308 pp.
ISBN 978-92-5107-288-2
Downloadable as pDF file from:
http://tinyurl.com/9ojo26t
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24. Big Facts: Where Agriculture and Climate
Change Meet
By CCAFS
www.ccafs.cgiar.org/bigfacts
Sustainable Food
Production Practices in
the Caribbean
Edited by W G Ganpat & W
p Isaac
CTA, 2012; 458 pp.
ISBN: 978-97-6637-624-6
CTA no. 1699
40 credit points
Statistics
To highlight the complex relationship■
between climate change and agriculture,
the CGIAR Research Program on Climate
Change, Agriculture and Food Security
(CCAFS) has launched a suite of 30 key
facts. The website, which features info-
graphics and photographs, covers every-
thing from undernourishment and popu-
lation to forestry and fisheries. To avoid
oversimplification of complex issues and to
provide additional information, a sub-set of
facts supports each ‘Big Fact’.
One of the most striking facts is that glo-
bally, roughly one-third of food produced
for human consumption gets lost or wasted.
Another is that the livestock sector in 2008
accounted for about 11% of global green-
house gas emissions, and emissions from
the sector are expected to increase by 70%
by 2050. Regarding mitigation, the seques-
tering of carbon in the soils of croplands,
grazing lands and rangelands are shown to
offer agriculture’s highest potential source
of climate change mitigation. These soils can
store between 1,500 and 4,500 million metric
tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent per year.
Agro-ecology
With a food import bill in excess of
€3.4 billion, the Caribbean is the
least food secure region in the western
hemisphere. Sustainable Food Production
Practices in the Caribbean reveals how it
is possible to increase yields by more than
100% in many cases through the applica-
tion of sustainable agricultural practices,
especially at the small-scale farmer level.
Although scientific and technological
aspects are discussed, the contributing
authors use their accumulated research and
field experience to focus on tested, simple
production systems and practices that sus-
tain soil fertility, ecosystems and people.
They provide practical guides on sustain-
able tree crop production, crop protection,
aquaculture practices, greenhouse veg-
etable production, how to manage difficult
soils, and appropriate post-harvest activi-
ties. In so doing, they consistently advocate
crop and livestock production techniques
that require an agro-ecological approach,
aimed at reducing the use of water, chemi-
cals and pesticides and the preservation of
the region’s soils.
Livelihoods
Over the next 40 years,
Africa’s population is
predicted to double. Soon, 20 million
young people will be entering the labour
market each year, but tens of millions
of rural Africans currently lack sufficient
work to lift themselves out of poverty.
This brief proposes a range of measures
to increase rural employment, including
policies to stimulate farm and non-
farm sectors, investment in education
and vocational training, and equal
opportunities for women.
Increasing Rural Employment
in sub-Saharan Africa
By C pye-Smith
CTA, 2012; 4 pp.
CTA no. PB004E
Downloadable as pDF file from:
http://tinyurl.com/ctwd36u
@
Wild swings
Volatile food prices in
2008 increased import
costs and disrupted local food markets
in many ACP countries, hitting poor
households, exacerbating malnutrition
and triggering civil unrest. This brief
recommends measures to limit price
swings, or mitigate their effects. Creating
small-scale emergency food reserves and
safety nets for the most vulnerable are
short-term measures. In the long-term,
increases in productivity, particularly
among smallholders, must be promoted.
Coping with Food Price Volatility in ACP
Countries
By p piro
CTA, 2012; 4 pp.
CTA no. PB005E
Downloadable as pDF file from:
http://tinyurl.com/ctnv2m6
@
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