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The importance of a market oriented approach in the solutions of problems related to agricultural
development is central. This is clearly highlighted in the regional priority setting (RPS) exercise
facilitated by GFAR, as well as in the results of five Regional Workshops on Post Harvest conducted
by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations.
Keeping in mind regional differences, it is important to highlight how various market approaches can

Objectives: 1) To rationalize the management of insect pests of cotton in southern India, in terms of reducing the excessive amounts of pesticides that are currently applied. This is likely to have immediate beneficial effects on the health of the farming community, and on the agrobiodiversity of the various locales. A reduction in the release levels into the environment are expected to follow. 2) To reduce rural poverty by improving, agronomically, economically and socially, the highly unstable cotton-based cropping systems in northern Andhra Pradesh and neighbouring areas.

The Project was designed as an action research project to test and assess alternative models of government-NGO-fisher collaboration for the management of inland fisheries of Bangladesh. Following from two earlier projects entitled ¿Experiments on New and Improved Management of Openwater Fisheries¿ (1987-1990) and ¿Improved Management of Openwater Fisheries¿ (1991-1994), the emphasis in the current CBFM project is to develop a framework for community-based fisheries management, and to ensure more sustainable exploitation of openwater fish resources for future generations.

This is a forum where much will be said about the challenges of agriculture and
productivity and about how globalisation will affect agriculture, with emphasis on crop
and livestock commodities. This note gives an insight into the other challenge facing the
CGIAR: how to manage natural resources sustainably under conditions of high
expectations for development. While acknowledging the great importance of
globalisation, it draws attention back to the rural community level where agriculture takes

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