ATDF JOURNAL VOLUME 5, ISSUE 1/2 OCT 2008
The ATDF Journal Volume 5 Issues 1/2 brings out some of the key policy implications, the causes and possible solutions to the world food crisis with a special focus on Africa. It explores the trends in investment and aid to agriculture in Africa, trade policy successes and failures and case studies of national agricultural strategies in a number of countries including Philippines and New Zealand. This issues draws on the extensive research and experience of international institutions, policy makers and researchers in agriculture to highlight some of the challenges that Africa faces and ways to overcome them. We hope you find this useful.Inside this issue
Beyond the Food Crisis: Trade, Aid and Innovation in African Agriculture
William A. Masters
The Global Food Crisis: A Toolkit for Audacious Leaders
Arvind Subramanian
A New Approach to Deal with the Global Food Crisis
Promoting Commercial Agriculture in Africa
Federico Bonaglia, Patrizia Labella and Jane Marshal
What trade policy framework to address food insecurity?
Jonathan Hepburn and Constantine Bartel
Investing in Agriculture to overcome the World food crisis and reduce poverty and hunger
Shenggen Fan and Mark W. Rosegrant
The Tragedy of African Agriculture: Trade liberalization and agricultural export performance
Samuel Gayi
The Food Versus Fuel Issue: Case of the Philippines
Liborio S. Cabanilla and U-Primo E. Rodriguez
ATDF Entreprenuership and business support activities
Promoting Women Entrepreneurship
Interested in partnering or supporting a plastic foaming and recycling plant together with ATDF in Africa? [ ]
Soon to be launched:
ATDF-ZDA Incubators Business matching service
For more information on any of these activities, contact:
email: Kondev@atdforum.org or buzi@atdforum.org
NEXT ISSUE: Call for papers
Intra-firm trade makes up about one third of global trade. In certain industries, the share is significantly higher. Intra-firm trade is not just a means to optimize taxation but also serves multinationals to minimize knowledge spillovers. In this context, intra-firm trade often serves as an isolating mechanism that is more effective than the mere legal protection of intellectual property. Yet, the knowledge accumulated by multinationals would be very valuable to strengthen the competitiveness of the local private sector in LDCs. The next issue of ATDF Journal wants to know:
* What does it mean if an increasing share of world trade takes place within firms? * What kind of incentives are necessary to induce multinationals to collaborate more with the local private sector and local universities in LDCs; * What kind of domestic policies in LDCs are feasible and legal (from a WTO point of view) to better embed multinational companies in the local economies? * Do best practices already exist, and how did they happen?
