We quantify the emergence of biofuel markets and its impact on U.S. and world agriculture for the coming decade using the multi-market, multi-commodity international FAPRI (Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute) model. The model incorporates the trade-offs between biofuel, feed, and food production and consumption and international feedback effects of the emergence through world commodity prices and trade.
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresmars, 2009Inde, Brésil, Chine, États-Unis d'Amérique
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresjanvier, 2010Inde
The objectives of the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes are to act as an independent agency that will investigate, monitor and record any violation of the Constitutional rights of the Scheduled Tribes, suggest measures for their development and in general act on their behalf. This report focuses on the extent to which the Commission performs its role and how effectively it does so. It does not touch upon the wider issues pertaining to the Scheduled Tribes, except insofar as they are addressed or not addressed by the Commission.
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Library ResourceRapports et recherchesDocuments de politique et mémoiresjuin, 2009Afrique, Asie orientale, Océanie, Asie méridionale, Amérique latine et Caraïbes
This paper examines the poverty impacts of global merchandise trade reform by looking at a wide range of developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Overall, the authors find that trade reform tends to reduce poverty primarily through the inclusion of agricultural components. The majority of developing country sample experiences small poverty increases from non-agricultural reforms.
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Library ResourceRapports et recherchesDocuments de politique et mémoiresjuin, 2009Pakistan, Asie méridionale
Using recent estimates of industry assistance rates, the effects of trade liberalization in the rest of the world and in Pakistan alone are analyzed using a global and a Pakistan computable general equilibrium (CGE) model under two tax replacement schemes: a direct income tax and an indirect tax replacement. The results indicate that the distributional and poverty effects in Pakistan of a unilateral liberalization of all traded goods are significantly greater than the effects of trade liberalization in the rest of the world.
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresseptembre, 2009Inde
Governance for Sustaining Himalayan Ecosystem (G-SHE): Guidelines and Best Practices is . This publication, which forms part of our broader climate change adaptation strategy, puts together key guidelines related to the governance and management of the Himalayan ecosystem, along with case studies.
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Library ResourceDocuments et rapports de conférenceDocuments de politique et mémoiresjuin, 2009Inde
This report focuses on the threats to biodiversity, status of implementation of the National Biodiversity Action Plan and progress achieved towards meeting the 2010 biodiversity target.
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresoctobre, 2009Indonésie, États-Unis d'Amérique, Inde, Malaisie, Chine, Asie
The production of biofuels has been supported by many conservationists and environmentalists on the grounds that it reduces greenhouse gas emissions and is a renewable energy substitute for non-renewable fossil fuels, mainly oil. More recently the domestic production of biofuels (and the domestic supply of other forms of alternative energy) have been welcomed by several nations as ways to reduce their oil imports and increase their energy self-sufficiency, as for example, has happened in the United States.
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Library ResourceRapports et recherchesDocuments de politique et mémoiresjanvier, 2010Bangladesh
This is USAID's review of Bangladesh's rules and regulations on property rights and resource governance.
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A policy innovation for local livelihoods
Documents de politique et mémoiresdécembre, 2009Asie méridionale, NépalThe Community Forestry Program in Nepal is a global innovation in participatory environmental governance that encompasses well-defined policies, institutions, and practices. The program addresses the twin goals of forest conservation and poverty reduction. As more than 70 percent of Nepal's population depends on agriculture for their livelihood, community management of forests has been a critically important intervention.
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