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Development assistance and investment in agriculture: Promises and facts by Fan, Shenggen, Breisinger, Clemens

“…Growing development challenges have renewed attention to the critical role that agriculture plays in the broad development process.The impact of agriculture extends beyond economic growth and poverty reduction to include improving health and nutrition and building resilience to climate change and conflict.While global and national promises have been made to advance agricultural development and food security, important gaps in implementation remain.To sustainably reduce poverty and improve food security, investments in agriculture -both foreign development assistance and national public expenditures -must be scaled up and adapted to exploit these new opportunities and to build resilience to future development challenges.To this end, the role of new actors, including emerging economies and the private sector, must be fully harnessed.The efficiency of public agricultural spending by national governments must also be improved.…”
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Science, Policy and Politics in a development assistance context by International Livestock Research Institute

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International development assistance in forestry and land management: the process and the players by Byron, R.N.

“…However, this paper argues that the answer can only be found through understanding two much more general processes; how a forestry activity relates to the broader socio-economic context in which it is embedded; and how development assistance operates in practice. Many projects which professional foresters see as failures in technical or even humanitarian terms may have been successful according to other political or commercial criteria, or to the tests of other interest groups. …”
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Chinese and Indian economic relations and development assistance to Zimbabwe: Rationale, controversies and significance by Tinarwo, Joseph, Babu, Suresh Chandra

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Ending hunger sustainably: Trends in official development assistance (ODA) spending for agriculture by Eber-Rose, Mali, Laborde Debucquet, David, Murphy, Sophia

“…It offers an illustrative analysis of the types of exploration into public funding for development that can be conducted using a database maintained by OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC).…”
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Climate-related bilateral official development assistance (ODA) and vulnerability: a comparative study of allocation and effectiveness by Rauniyar, S. K., Shiiba, N., Yamasaki, L., Tomoi, Hiroaki, Tomoi, Hana, West, M. K., Watanabe, A., Nomura, S.

“…Official Development Assistance (ODA) has emerged as a crucial tool for supporting nations worldwide in mitigating and adapting to the impacts of climate change. …”
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Does agricultural official development assistance facilitate foreign direct investment in agriculture: Evidence from 63 developing countries by Tian, Junyan

“…Although past studies have separately explored the direct impact of agriculture official development assistance (ODA) and foreign development investment (FDI) on agricultural production, the nexus between these two elements is often neglected. …”
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Accelerating Agricultural Modernization in Developing Nations: A Summary of Findings and Suggestions from Agriculturists from Development Assistance Agencies, Bellagio, Italy, February 3-6, 1970 (Bellagio II) by Ford Foundation, Hardin, Lowell S.

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Agricultural Biotechnology: The Next "Green Revolution"? by World Bank, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, Australian International Development Assistance Bureau, International Service for National Agricultural Research

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Mad cows and sick birds: Financing international responses to animal disease in developing countries by Winter-Nelson, A., Rich, Karl M.

“…However, the costs of control can be large compared with development assistance budgets, and the benefits small compared with the global benefits of control and the local benefits of other priority investments. …”
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Lessons for change: getting more from international forestry assistance by Fruhling, P., Persson, R.

“…During the last few decades, forestry assistance has benefited from the positive interest in environmental issues and has generally been less questioned than many other sectors of fields within international development assistance. If compared with its own goals and the resources invested, it have achieved rather modest results. …”
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Food safety solutions by Grace, Delia

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TDRI + LRDC = ODNRI by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…TDRI + LRDC = ODNRI A new acronym has entered the vocabulary of development assistance: ODNRI. It stands for the Overseas Development Natural Resources Institute and is the result of the amalgamation of the Tropical Development and Research...…”
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Livestock roles in addressing the Sustainable Development Goals by Hung Nguyen-Viet

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$3 billion per year would allow 100 million children to live free of malnutrition by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Infographic explaining that $3 billion per year (less than 5% of development assistance budget) would allow 100 million children to live free of malnutrition.…”
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Strengthening capacities for improving human and animal health in Southeast Asia using a One Health approach by Hu Suk Lee

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Using U.S. food surpluses for development: interaction of food aid with other forms of foreign assistance. by Mellor, John W.

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Financing sustainable development: Shall we throw more money at the problem or start with doing better with existing resources? by Vos, Rob

“…Reforming development assistance and debt relief have been main threads in Geske Dijkstra’s notable professional career. …”
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Achieving sustainable food security for all by 2020: the role of policy, global public goods, property rights, and collective action by Pinstrup-Andersen, Per, Cohen, Marc J.

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Senior Australian parliamentarian impressed with the enthusiasm of ILRI and BecA Scientists by International Livestock Research Institute

“…Bob McMullan, Australian Parliamentary Secretary for International Development Assistance comments on his country’s expanding focus in Africa during his visit to ILRI (the International Livestock Research Institute) and BeCA (Biosciences Eastern and Cental Africa) in Nairobi, Kenya (East Africa) on November 3 2009. …”
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