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Income and Poverty Impacts of USAID-Funded Programs to Promote Maize, Horticulture, and Dairy Enterprises in Kenya, 2004-2010

Smale, Melinda; Mathenge, Mary K.; Jayne, Thomas S.; … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2012

Since 2002, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has funded programs to promote maize, dairy, and horticulture enterprises among smallholder farmers in Kenya under the Strategic Objective 7 of Increased Rural Household Incomes. On behalf of USAID, Tegemeo Institute has...

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Non-Timber Forest Products and Rural Poverty Alleviation in Zambia

Mulenga, Brian P.; Richardson, Robert B.; Tembo, Gelson - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2012

are scarce. Therefore, non-timber forest products may offer sources of income and opportunities for poverty alleviation in …

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The 2011 Surplus in Smallholder Maize Production in Zambia: Drivers, Beneficiaries, & Implications for Agricultural & Poverty Reduction Policies

Mason, Nicole M.; Burke, William J.; Shipekesa, Arthur M.; … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2011

(FSP/FISP). More than 90% of GRZ funding for Poverty Reduction Programmes is devoted to the FRA and FSP/FISP, yet there has … been no major reduction in rural poverty rates in Zambia since 2004. …

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Mountains of Maize, Persistent Poverty

Jayne, Thomas S.; Mason, Nicole M.; Burke, William J.; … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2011

maize production. But ironically, rural poverty remains stubbornly high despite the fact that the government has spent over … that maize production has increased so impressively without making a serious dent in rural poverty? And what are the …

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Dynamic Pathways into and out of Poverty: A Case of Small Holder Farmers in Zambia

Banda, Diana J.; Hamukwala, Priscilla; Haggblade, Steven; … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2011

on long term poverty dynamics i.e., how they perceived their welfare compared to that of their parents with the major … worse off (WO) than both parents were. Poverty was mainly defined from the communities' own perspectives and entailed …

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Trading out of Poverty: WTO Agreements and the West African Agriculture. A Report of the Food Security II Cooperative Agreement

Nouve, Kofi; Staatz, John M.; Schweikhardt, David B.; … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2002

This report is a brief survey of WTO agreements and their implications for the West African economies (including Chad). The study reviews the positions of West African countries on various WTO issues and compares these positions with positions expressed by major trade partners, particularly the...

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Promouvoir les échanges commerciaux pour réduire la pauvreté : les accords de l’ OMC et l’agriculture en Afrique de l’ Ouest. Un rapport de l’ Accord de Coopération no. II sur la s...

Nouve, Kofi; Staatz, John M.; Schweikhardt, David B.; … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2002

Ce rapport est une vue d’ensemble sommaire des accords commerciaux de l’ OMC et de leurs implications pour les pays de l’ Afrique de l’ Ouest (ainsi que le Tchad). L’étude décrit les positions adoptées par les pays de l’ Afrique de l’ Ouest sur divers enjeux des négociations...

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Smallholder Income Diversification in Zambia: The Way Out of Poverty?

Bigsten, Arne; Tengstam, Sven - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2008

1) One can achieve poverty reduction in rural areas of Zambia by both growth and inequality reduction, but growth must …

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Food Security in Developing Countries

Staatz, John M.; Boughton, Duncan; Donovan, Cynthia - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2009

This paper provides a systematic definition of food security, focusing on its different dimensions; examines the nature and magnitude of the different dimensions of food insecurity in developing countries; discusses the difficult tradeoffs that policy makers face in trying to address food...

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Mudanças nos Padrões dos Rendimentos de Agregados Familiares Rurais em Moçambique de 1996 a 2002 e suas Implicações para a Contribuição da Agricultura para a Redução da Pobreza...

Boughton, Duncan; Mather, David; Tschirley, David L.; … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2006

Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Directorate of Economics, Republic of Mozambique

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