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Trends in the Production, Trade, and Consumption of Food-Legume Crops in Sub-Saharan Africa
Akibode, Comlanvi Sitou - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2011
Food legumes in Sub-Saharan Africa play a vital role by being a source of livelihood for millions of people; and offer tremendous potential to contribute to the alleviation of malnutrition among resource-poor farmers. They contribute to the sustainability of cropping systems and soil fertility....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294267
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Smallholder Commercialization Trends as Affected by Land Constraints in Zambia: What Are the Policy Implications?
Hichaambwa, Munguzwe; Jayne, Thomas S. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2012
In spite of vast expanses of the country’s land currently being uncultivated, there is increasing evidence that a surprisingly high share of rural smallholder households face land constraints that adversely affect their productivity and ability to participate in agricultural supply chains.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878812
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010880020
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Food Security in Developing Countries
Staatz, John M.; Boughton, Duncan; Donovan, Cynthia - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2009
world’s food insecure people live. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005000477
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Factors Associated with Farm Households’ Movement Into and Out of Poverty in Kenya: The Rising Importance of Livestock.
Burke, William J.; Jayne, Thomas S.; Freeman, H. Ade; … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2007
This study explores the dynamics of poverty in Kenya. The study specifically examines how initial conditions, household … decisions, and other factors that may change over time affect poverty. Dynamic relationships are identified between behavioral …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008555515
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Spatial Disadvantages or Spatial Poverty Traps: Household Evidence from Rural Kenya.
Burke, William J.; Jayne, Thomas S. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2008
escaping from poverty as well as descending into poverty; 3) to determine effects of compound disadvantages on the likelihood … of chronic poverty; and 4) to assess the evidence of spatial poverty traps (SPTs). Quantitative analysis is conducted … those households found to have risen from poverty (starting in the bottom tercile and ending in the top tercile, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008555527
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008530571
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543618
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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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008456916
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Changes in Rural Household Income Patterns in Mozambique, 1996-2002, and Implications for Agriculture’s Contribution to Poverty Reduction.
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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008457031