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Chapter 9

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Essay question: After oil, coffee is the most valuable commodity in world trade. How does the world “coffee economy” work?

Links to Websites

Agriculture page of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations: http://www.fao.org/ag/
The FAO’s agriculture page provides information and hyperlinks related to agriculture in the LDCs, including material on the Green Revolution and agribusiness. It also offers the national agricultural censuses that contain land and tenure statistics for a variety of countries. FAOSTAT is a searchable database with agriculture and food statistics for the countries around the world. The FAO’s website also has a section on gender and food security, available at http://www.fao.org/Gender/gender.htm

International Fund for Agricultural Development: http://www.ifad.org/
This UN agency is concerned with addressing the structural problems relating to poverty and hunger that impact adversely on food production in the LDCs. The IFAD website contains publications, data and photographs of agriculture in Africa, Latin America and Asia.

International Labour Organization: http://www.ilo.org/
This UN agency offers research and data on labour migration for agricultural workers.

United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention: http://www.odccp.org
This UN website provides reports and statistics on the global drug trade, and the associated problems and issues it generates.

United Nations Population Fund: http://www.unfpa.org/
The UNPF website contains information on population issues and the LDCs. It offers the latest edition of The State of World Population Report, which in 2001 focused on population and environmental change, and contained a section on women and the environment.