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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    January, 2015
    Ethiopia

    This market assessment;undertaken in 2014;reviews the constraints faced by smallholder farmers in three sectors (rural land rental;access to finance and agriculture) that limit the positive impact of second level land certification in Amhara and Oromia. Furthermore;the assessment provides a list of feasible interventions to catalyse the economic impact of increased tenure security..This resource was published in the frame of the Land Investment for Transformation (LIFT) Programme.

  2. Library Resource
    January, 2015

    This report explores evidence and insights from five case studies that have made significant recent progress in addressing the challenge of insuring poor smallholder farmers and pastoralists in the developing world. In India, national index insurance programmes have reached over 30 million farmers through a mandatory link with agricultural credit and strong government support.

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    January, 2015
    Africa

    The lobby to industrialise food production in Africa is changing seed and land laws across the continent to serve agribusiness corporations. The end goal is to turn what has long been held as a commons into a marketable commodity that the private sector can control and extract profit from at the expense of smallholder farmers and communities. This survey aims to provide an overview of just who is pushing for which specific changes in these areas – looking not at the plans and projects, but at the actual texts that will define the new rules.

  4. Library Resource
    January, 2015

    This paper uses farm panel data from
    China to examine the dynamics of land transactions, machine
    investments, and the demand for machine services. Recently,
    China's agriculture has experienced a large expansion
    of machine rentals and machine services provided by
    specialized agents, which has contributed to mechanization
    of agricultural production. The empirical results show that
    an increase in nonagricultural wage rates leads to expansion

  5. Library Resource
    January, 2015

    Himachal Pradesh has the reputation of
    being stable, inclusive, cohesive and well-governed and it
    stands apart in many respects from its neighbors in northern
    India. It has additionally, achieved remarkable growth,
    especially in the last two decades, which has been
    accompanied by very good human development outcomes. Despite
    being a predominantly rural society, educational attainment
    in Himachal Pradesh for instance, is among the best in the

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