After two decades of economic decline and stagnation, Africa has witnessed a remarkable overall economic and agricultural recovery over the last decade.
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World agriculture is at a turning point: economic growth, energy needs, and climate change redefine the equations of agricultural supply and demand and contribute to accelerate food prices.
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High food prices
"The food price crisis hits a world that has the most unequal distribution of income ever, and a world that has left the poorest behind.
"World agriculture has entered a new, unsustainable, and politically risky period.
"World agriculture has entered a new, unsustainable, and politically risky period.
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When food makes fuel
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Biofuels and the poor
Este informe se centra en cinco medidas que deben adoptarse para que la liberalización del comercio agrícola favorezca a los pobres, y enfatiza la necesidad de combinar la reforma de la política comercial con inversiones en desarrollo para crear t
"At a recent multi-actor all-Africa conference, a majority of the 500 participants-60 percent-believed that food security can be achieved in Africa by 2020 but only a minority-40 percent-believed that it will be achieved.
Brief prepared for the Annual General Meeting of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, Nairobi, October 29, 2003
In this address, I highlight the large and growing national and international inequalities related to agriculture and rural areas, which threaten peace, growth, and sustainable development; I argue that we ought to rethink the nature and implicati