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International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies, School of Government, the University of the Western Cape, South Africa (PLAAS)

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Faostat, FAO

Low External Input and Sustainable Agriculture / LEISA (ILEIA)

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New aid for African agriculture: how will this be realised?

K. Robinson / Panos Pictures

After years of ‘neglect’ in favour of health and education assistance in Africa, the food crisis has concentrated the donor community’s minds on the need for overseas development aid for African agriculture. This is welcome, but what sort of policies are being proposed and what impact will they have for the African farmer? This report reviews policy documents of some of the major donors providing aid for African agricultural development – between 2004 and 2008 – and seeks to determine what underlies the expressed policy of each actor; how they influence each other’s priorities; and what mainstream agenda has emerged.

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Assessing trends in food safety: ( E. Hanak;E. Boutrif;P. Fabre / Centre de cooperation internationale en recherche agronomique pour le Developpement , 2002); Prominent food scares and changes in the international trading environment have brought food safety to the forefront of international agri-food policy concerns. Recent trends include an increased emph...
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