“Large scale land investments” and “land grabbing” are the terms most commonly used to describe the rising global trend where foreign and local agribusinesses, mining corporations, governments, and investment houses obtain long term rights over large areas of land. Perhaps the most famous of these is the attempt by the Daewoo Group of South Korea to lease 1.3 million hectares, or more than half of the productive agricultural lands of Madagascar, in Africa.
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresmars, 2012Asie
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresdécembre, 2009Asie
The issue of climate change was already being discussed in the 1980s as scientists raised alarm over the world's increasing emission of manmade green house gases (GHGs), the main cause of global warming. In 1988, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), began to look into the effects of manmade GHG emissions on climate change. Following the release of the IPCC findings in 1990, the United Nations initiated the process of convening countries with the goal of reducing man-made GHG emissions and helping countries adapt to climate change.
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresseptembre, 2009Asie
WHAT IS MEANT BY AGRIBUSINESS?
Agribusiness as used in this paper refers to very big corporations that produce, process, trade, and market agricultural food products and agricultural inputs. Examples are corporations that produce inputs, such as seeds and fertilizers, and those that produce for supermarkets and retail chains. Transnational agribusiness companies are those that operate in the agriculture sector of many countries, usually with a huge volume of business.
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresaoût, 2009Asie
This issue paper is about what is known as the “global financial crisis,” which is said to have affected the economies in Europe and North America and caused massive loss of jobs and bankruptcy in these countries. For some of us here in the developing world, the global financial crisis may seem very far from us and therefore, has no effect on us. We may even think that it is something that only concerns economists and the business sector.
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresoctobre, 2008Asie
Our unsustainable way of life is causing a crisis in our environment at a global scale. Climate change is threatening the future of our planet. The crisis is largely our own doing, and we also have the means to solve it, if we are willing to act on it. Farmers, fishers, and indigenous peoples, who live close to nature for their survival, are the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. But they also have a special role to play in addressing climate change. What they need for survival - sustainable and ecological friendly practices - are also what are needed to heal our planet.
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresmai, 2007Antigua-et-Barbuda, Barbade, Belize, Bénin, Botswana, Chine, Congo, Cuba, Côte d'Ivoire, République dominicaine, Grenade, Guyana, Haïti, Honduras, Inde, Indonésie, Jamaïque, Kenya, Maurice, Mongolie, Montserrat, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Nigéria, Pakistan, Panama, Pérou, Philippines, République de Corée, Saint-Kitts-et-Nevis, Sainte-Lucie, Saint-Vincent-et-les Grenadines, Sénégal, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Trinité-et-Tobago, Turquie, Ouganda, République-Unie de Tanzanie, Venezuela, Zambie, Zimbabwe
A Special Product (SP) is an agricultural product “out of the WTO” in that they are not subject to tariff reductions, i. e. Countries can keep the right to maintain protective tariffs on certain agricultural products that are essential for food security, rural development, and farmers’ livelihoods. The G33 proposal is for 10% of developing country products to be exempt from tariff reductions, with an additional 10% of product lines to have limited tariff reductions. This would be somewhere in the range of 300 products. The US counter-proposal is for a mere 5 products!
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresfévrier, 2006Antigua-et-Barbuda, Barbade, Belize, Bénin, Botswana, Chine, Congo, Cuba, Côte d'Ivoire, République dominicaine, Grenade, Guyana, Haïti, Honduras, Inde, Indonésie, Jamaïque, Kenya, Maurice, Mongolie, Montserrat, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Nigéria, Pakistan, Pérou, Philippines, République de Corée, Saint-Kitts-et-Nevis, Sainte-Lucie, Saint-Vincent-et-les Grenadines, Sénégal, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Trinité-et-Tobago, Turquie, Ouganda, République-Unie de Tanzanie, Zambie, Zimbabwe
The World Trade Organization (WTO) hailed the recent Hong Kong Sixth Ministerial Meeting last December 2005 as a positive movement towards the conclusion of the Doha Development Round. The round was supposedly geared towards ensuring that trade contributes to the development objectives of least developed and developing countries.
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresmars, 2005Asie, Brunéi Darussalam, Cambodge, Indonésie, Laos, Malaisie, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapour, Thaïlande, Viet Nam
Agrarian reform, or AR, is the redistribution of public and private agricultural lands, regardless of produce and tenurial arrangement, to landless farmers and regular farm workers, to include support services and other arrangements alternative to distribution of land such as production/profi t sharing, labor organization, or distribution of shares of stock.
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresfévrier, 2005Asie
What is the GATT-WTO?
The World Trade Organization (WTO) describes itself as “the only international organization dealing with the global rules of trade between nations. Its main function is to ensure that trade fl ows as smoothly, predictably and freely as possible.”
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresfévrier, 2005Asie, Global
During the Millennium Summit of the United Nations (UN) in September 2000, 147 Head of States and Governments and 191 member-states adopted the Millennium Declaration. The Declaration embodies structured development goals and targets. The adopting countries committed to achieve its targets to reduce poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and discrimination against women by 2015. Expert studies projected the resources required to attain the goals and what are expected to be available.
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