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March 2006

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  1. The Global Open Food and Agriculture University (GO-FAU): Contributions to Master's Programs in Agricultural Economics/Agribusiness – Curriculum and Course Materials
    GO-FAU, a distance education support initiative of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) and partner universities, strengthens M.Sc. agricultural programs by providing high-quality course materials, faculty capacity strengthening, and thesis facilitation. Partner universities deliver the courses, support learners, provide accreditation, and award degrees. IFPRI coordinates this Program for the CGIAR. Newest information available on GO-FAU’s website is an Agricultural Economics curriculum and related course materials. It contains postgraduate-level curriculum and course materials in agricultural economics/agribusiness for 28 courses. In some cases, it provides links for downloading the article abstract or full text from the publisher's site. For more information, visit http://www.openaguniversity.cgiar.org/course/index.htm or email GO-FAU@cgiar.org.
  2. IFPRI Dataset
    South Africa: Social Accounting Matrix (SAM), 1993 and 2000
    The 1993 and 2000 Social Accounting Matrixes (SAMs) for South Africa were prepared by James Thurlow. They identify 39 activities and 39 commodities that are disaggregated across nine provinces, two area types (rural and urban), three population groups (African, White, and Other Races), and five per capita expenditure quintiles. The SAM construction took place in two stages. In the first stage, a macro-SAM was created based on national accounts and other more aggregate data sources. Production was then distributed across provinces. The latter was done using shares and, therefore, did not imbalance the SAM. At the second stage, the factor and household accounts were disaggregated using information from the household surveys. Since income and expenditures did not reconcile in the surveys it was necessary to balance the household accounts by using cross-entropy estimation. The estimation procedure draws on the prior information contained within the balanced aggregate-household SAM and the detailed household information from the surveys. For ordering information, visit http://www.ifpri.org/data/southafrica03.asp.
  3. Food Security Information Portal for Africa
    This portal was created by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) in cooperation with African Food Security/Policy Networks and Michigan State University’s Department of Agricultural Economics. The objective of the directory is to assist African food security and food policy researchers in finding important and high-quality internet sources of data and information and to improve their professional skills for research and policy outreach. It is available in English, French, and Portuguese. Please note that parts of the website are still under development. For more information on the directory, visit http://www.aec.msu.edu/agecon/fs2/test/index.cfm?Lang=en.
  4. UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics 2005
    The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has published this handbook. It provides a comprehensive collection of statistical data relevant to the analysis of international trade, investment, and development for individual countries and for economic and trade groupings. It presents consolidated reference statistics for describing how developing countries have evolved in the context of globalization. For more information, visit https://unp.un.org/details.aspx?entry=B05HI1 or visit https://unp.un.org/details.aspx?entry=B05HCD for the CD-ROM.
  5. Multifunctionality in Agriculture: What Role for Private Initiatives?
    This report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) sheds light on potential nongovernment solutions to resolving problems created by agricultural practices. The approaches analyzed include market mechanisms, the promotion of private transactions, and voluntary approaches. The report examines fourteen specific cases illustrating a wide variety of situations in a range of OECD countries. It assesses the relative efficiency, equity, and stability of the approaches described in the case studies, compared with direct government intervention.
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