Agriculture and development

• Corporate Authors: Berlin Workshop, Internationale Weiterbildung und Entwicklung gGmbh., World Bank.
• Other Authors: Kochendörfer-Lucius, Gudrun., Pleskovic, Boris.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, D.C. : [Bonn] : World Bank ; InWent, c2008.
• Series: Berlin Workshop series ; 2008.
• Subjects: Agriculture > Congresses. > Economic aspects; Population > Congresses.; Agriculture.; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agronomy > Crop Science. > Agriculture; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agronomy > General. > Agriculture; Electronic books.; Computer network resources.
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Proceedings from "Berlin 2008: Agriculture and Development" conference held in preparation for the World Development Report 2008.

Table of Contents:

• Agriculture and development : the perspective of a think tank on the WDR 2008 outline / Michael Brüntrup
• Market access for small farmers : the new standards challenge / Benoît Daviron, Isabelle Vagneron
• Globalization, privatization, and vertical coordination in food value chains / Johan F.M. Swinnen, Miet Maertens
• Designing improved NRM interventions in agriculture for poverty reduction and environmental sustainability in developing countries / H. Ade Freeman
• Aspects of land degradation in lagging regions : extent, driving forces, responses, and further research with special reference to Ethiopia / Gunnar Köhlin
• Agriculture and the Rio conventions / Laurence Tubiana, Sheila Wertz-Kanounnikoff
• Agricultural growth, employment, and wage rates in developing countries / Raghav Gaiha, Katsushi Imai
• Are farm-nonfarm linkages still strong enough to tackle rural poverty? / Daniel Bradley
• Agriculture : rural nonfarm linkages and poverty / Alexander Schejtman
• Decentralization, local governance, and rural development / Jean-Louis Arcand
• Decentralization, agriculture, and poverty reduction : harsh realities? / John Farrington
• Decentralization and development : emerging issues from Uganda's experience / John A. Okidi, Madina Guloba
• Decentralized rural governance in a post-socialist economy : a case of community-based agricultural marketing in Poland / Marin Petrick, Andreas Gramzow
• Opportunities for European bioethanol in a global environment (2006) / Oliver Henniges
• Nonlinear effects of weather on U.S. crop yields, implications for climate change, and why these effects matter for developing countries / Wolfram Schlenker, Michael Roberts
• Emerging policy issues within the realm of science policy for Africa / Monty Jones.