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Investing in Agriculture for Food Security
Symposium on the occasion of the World food Day 2006
Berne, Switzerland, 13 October 2006

Documents

Opening Statement 25KB
Jacques Chavaz, Deputy Director General of the Swiss Federal Office for Agriculture

Agricultural and rural development: recent trends, and new concepts with special emphasis on Africa 3729KB
David Nielson, Senior Economist, Rural Development, Eastern and Southern Africa, World Bank, USA

Reaction and additional considerations from an African farmers perspective
[Paper: E | Abstract: E | F | D] 143KB
Mercy Karanja, Kenyan Farmer, Development Policy Coordinator, International Federation of Agricultural Producers IFAP, France

Reaction and additional considerations from a development professionals perspective [Paper: E | F | Abstract: E | F | D] 219KB
Ndéye Coumba FALL, Executive Director, West Africa Rural Foundation WARF, Senegal

A Swiss farmers view on investments in agriculture in developing countries (Abstract) | F | D | 15KB
Heidi Bravo, Head of International Relations, Swiss Farmers' Union, Switzerland

Conclusions 364KB
Thomas Zeller, Deputy Director a.i., Thematic and Technical Resources Department, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation

Halving hunger: it can be done.
Pedro Sanchez, M.S. Swaminathan, et al. UN Millennium Project. Task Force on Hunger. 2005.

Achieving the Millennium Development Goals: Rural Investment and Enabling Policy. 454KB
Jean-Philippe Audinet and Sappho Haralambous. Discussion Paper. IFAD. 2005. 58p.

Agricultural Research. A Growing Global Divide?
Philip G. Pardey, Nienke Beintema, Steven Dehmer, Stanley Wood.
Food Policy Report No. 17. IFPRI. August 2006.

Promoting Pro-Poor Growth. AGRICULTURE 828KB
DAC Guidelines and Reference Series. OECD. 2006.