Policy Brief: Fisheries: Improving Policy Coherence for Development

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30-Sep-2008

The fishing sector is a key concern in conserving our common but scarce global resources. It is vital for millions of people in developing countries, providing livelihoods, nutrition and protein, especially ...

Policy Brief: Rising Agricultural Prices: Causes, Consequences and Responses

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01-Sep-2008

World prices of wheat, coarse grains (in particular corn), rice and oilseedcrops nearly doubled between 2005 and 2007 and continued to rise in early2008. These prices, along with those of meat, sugar and ...

Policy Brief: Agriculture: Improving Policy Coherence for Development

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05-May-2008

Agriculture plays a central role in economic growth and poverty reduction in developing countries. Although aid remains an important driver for development, including rural development, mutually supportive ...

Policy Brief: Agricultural Policy Reform in Chile

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17-Mar-2008

Chile has made important progress in raising incomes and reducing poverty. Real per capita incomes have more than doubled since the restoration of democracy in 1990, and the incidence of poverty (as measured ...

Policy Brief: Biofuels for Transport: Policies and Possibilities

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03-Dec-2007

Bioenergy and biofuels are of growing public and private interest at a time of rapidly rising world energy demand and high oil prices. Amid concerns over climate change, they are also increasingly under ...

Policy Brief: The Cost of Implementing Agricultural Policy

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17-Sep-2007

Agricultural policies, like all government policy, incur transaction costs – the cost of designing, implementing and evaluating the measure involved. Making this process more efficient and reducing these ...

Policy Brief: Decoupling Agricultural Support from Production

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23-Nov-2006

A traditional objective of agricultural support policy was to increase production or maintain it at a certain level. Consequently, almost all policies were closely linked to production. Tariffs, export ...

Policy Brief : Agricultural Policy Reform in South Africa

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28-Apr-2006

With a surface area of 1.22 million km2 and a population of 46.9 million, South Africa is one of the largest countries on the African continent. It is also the largest African economy, with a per capita ...

Policy Brief: Making Sure Fish Piracy Doesn’t Pay

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20-Jan-2006

Fish piracy, or illegal fishing activity, depletes global fish stocks and undermines efforts to ensure continued, renewable stocks for the future. It also damages the economic and social welfare of those ...

Subsidies: A Way Towards Sustainable Fisheries?

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08-Dec-2005

This Policy Brief presents the key findings from the Committee for Fisheries work on the impacts of financial support on the sustainable development of the fisheries sector. 

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