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Quarterly Newsletter, October 2008

Quarterly Web Update October 2008
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Vietnam Agricultural Competitiveness Project will help small farms to achieve higher yields and sell more crops in the marketplace - one solution to the food crisis. To reach this goal, the US$59.8 million project will link shareholders together to form public-private partnerships to improve knowledge sharing and technology. Read about this project below. Press Release Overview Project Documents Rural Development and Agriculture in Vietnam New Publications: Development Outreach - Making Agriculture a Development Priority. Grain prices have doubled since January 2006 with over 60 percent of the rise occuring since January 2008 -- castastrophic for millions of the world's poorest people. This publication explores agricultural solutions to this "silent tsunami"... more special report Optimizing Fisheries Benefits in the Pacific Islands . The report identifies key constraints and past mitigating activities in fisheries in the Pacific Islands region, and discusses how donors could be more effective in addressing core sector issues... more	World Bank gives grants for agricultural innovations which address the food crisis ... Six grants were awarded to projects from the East Asia & Pacific region at the 2008 World Bank Development Marketplace grant competition. Under the theme “Sustainable Agriculture for Development," the three day event showcased promising solutions to help communities struggling with the current food crisis ... more Read about the innovative proposals submitted... more Join the Discussion onEAP Agricultural Issues ! The Food Crisis Rising food prices and East Asia: trends and options Why the food crisis - graph over 30 years Rice is expensive: a blessing or a curse for Cambodia? NT2 Project NT2 - Compensating villagers for direct losses from the project And what happens after the Nam Theun 2 project is over? Others Dead as a Doha? Collapse of the WTO Doha Round China's domestic market the target for European firms in the short and long run A closer look at that rotten papaya - facts on food waste
? Quick Fact: Did you know that ninety percent of the poor in Vietnam, or three quarters of the population, live in the rural areas? And that rice accounts for 45 percent of agricultural production? See Data and Statistics for more interesting facts... more	Learn More... Topics in Development - the Food Crisis. An update on what the World Bank is doing. Also read: East Asia and Pacific Newsletter
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