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Less-Favoured Areas: Looking Beyond Agriculture Towards Ecosystem Services

Lipper, Leslie; Pingali, Prabhu; Zurek, Monika - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2006

Many dryland regions are considered less favoured areas as they face a variety of either biophysical or socio-economic constraints to agricultural production and sustaining livelihoods. Growing population numbers, limited infrastructure and market access, land tenure problems as well as...

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Putting Payments for Environmental Services in the Context of Economic Development

Zilberman, David; Lipper, Leslie; McCarthy, Nancy - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2006

Paying for the provision of environmental services is a recent policy innovation that is attracting much attention in both developed and developing countries. The innovation involves a move away from command and control environmental policies, harnessing market forces to obtain more efficient...

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When are Payments for Environmental Services Beneficial to the Poor?

Zilberman, David; Lipper, Leslie; McCarthy, Nancy - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2006

The impact of payment for environmental services (PES) on poverty varies. Generally, PES is good for landowners and may negatively affect consumers if food demand is inelastic. Impacts also depend on the correlation between poverty and environmental amenities. If the richer farmers also provide...

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Determinants of Cereal Diversity in Communities and on Household Farms of the Northern Ethiopian Highlands

Benin, Samuel; Gebremedhin, Berhanu; Smale, Melinda; … - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2003

On farm conservation of crop diversity poses obvious policy challenges in terms of the design of appropriate incentive … mechanisms and possible trade-offs between conservation and productivity. This paper compares factors explaining the inter … location-specific nature of any policies designed to support conservation. Policies appear neutral to the type of diversity …

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Resource Abundance, Poverty and Development

Bulte, Erwin H.; Damania, Richard; Deacon, Robert T. - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2004

The negative correlation between resource endowments and GDP growth remains one of the most robust findings in the empirical growth literature, and has been coined the “resource curse hypothesis”. The policy consequences of this result are potentially far reaching. If natural resources are...

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Linking Smallholders to the New Agricultural Economy: An Evaluation of the Plataformas Program in Ecuador

Cavatassi, Romina; González, Mario; Winters, Paul; … - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2009

brought, particularly with regard to farmers’ welfare and to the environment. The analysis is run comparing a set of different …

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Gender and Land Rights - Understanding Complexities; Adjusting Policies

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations; … - 2010

Increasing women’s access to land is crucial to fight hunger and poverty. However, gender disparities in land access remain significant in most countries, regardless of their level of development. A new FAO database helps to understand the factors that prevent women from accessing land; and to...

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Fighting Poverty and Hunger - What role for urban agriculture?

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations; … - 2010

Towns and cities are growing rapidly in developing countries. This process is often accompanied by high levels of poverty and hunger, leading many urban dwellers to engage in farming activities to help satisfy their food needs. Policy makers need to recognize this reality and actively seize the...

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Lutter contre la pauvreté et la faim - Quel est le rôle de l'agriculture urbaine ?

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations; … - 2010

Les villes des pays en développement connaissent une croissance rapide. Ce processus est souvent accompagné de niveaux élevés de pauvreté et de faim qui poussent beaucoup d'habitants urbains à entreprendre des activités agricoles pour satisfaire leurs besoins alimentaires. Les décideurs...

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La lucha contra el hambre y la pobreza - ¿Cual es el papel de la agricultura urbana?

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations; … - 2010

Los pueblos y ciudades crecen con rapidez en los países en desarrollo. Este proceso va acompañado a menudo de niveles elevados de hambre y pobreza, lo que conduce a muchos residentes urbanos a ocuparse en actividades agrícolas para ayudar a cubrir sus necesidades alimentarias. Los...

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