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Investing in poor farmers pays: rethinking how to invest in agriculture [1]

This new report by Oxfam International calls on governments and donor countries to prioritise investments in agriculture as a way of fighting poverty. It says that investing in agriculture will also help to ensure food security and mitigating climate change.

Decades of faltering public commitment to investing in agriculture has hindered farmers

Publication Date: 
01/06/2009
Melinda Smale [2], Emily Alpert [3], Kelly Hauser [4]
Oxfam International [5]
Tags:
Agriculture [6], Green Revolution [7], Agricultural Research [8], Climate Change [9], Farmers [10], Aid [11], Aid Agencies [12], Poverty [13], Private Sector [14], India [15], Global [16], Food Security [17]
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