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equivalence scales are likely to produce significant changes in the analysis of poverty and its distribution across households and … assistance resources) it is important to refine our understanding of the extent to which poverty measures and the resulting …
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Land use change is a key requirement for improving rural incomes and making a significant reduction in poverty levels … land use changes required for poverty alleviation coincide with that required for carbon sequestration, significant … is significant potential for sequestration payments to contribute to poverty alleviation, considerable effort will be …
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The Food Security and Agricultural Projects Analysis Unit (ESAF) of FAO has undertaken a number of pilot studies to develop a methodology for understanding why certain groups of people are vulnerable to becoming food insecure. The studies use the sustainable livelihoods approach adopted for food...
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We summarize existing theoretical claims linking poverty to rates of deforestation and then examine this linkage … controlling for this, impacts of poverty per se are confounded by richer areas being different from the areas inhabited by the …’ characteristics, we find that poorer areas are cleared more rapidly. This result suggests that poverty reduction aids forest …
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This paper examines the PROGRESA and PROCAMPO cash transfer programs in Mexico and evaluates their impact on household food security and nutrition. These two programs differ in their gender targeting, with PROGRESA aimed at women and PROCAMPO generally at men, and program conditionality, with...
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taken to reduce their vulnerability to becoming food insecure in the future. Most of the research on poverty in Nepal during … the past decades has focused exclusively on determining the poverty line and calculating the proportion of people living … under this line, rather than unmasking the characteristics, particularly the locational aspects, of poverty other than the …
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national antipoverty scheme directed at chronic rural poverty, and PROCAMPO, which is a scheme designed to compensate farmers …
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An agribusiness firm’s choice to expand activities through contract farming rather than plantations, buying directly from open markets or other means reflects differences in transaction costs found in different types of procurement systems. Smallholders may enter contracts to reduce...
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The purpose of the present Conceptual Framework document, developed in the context of FAO’s “Initiative to Review and Update National Agricultural, Rural Development and Food Security Strategies and Policies”, is to propose a flexible general approach to addressing food security through...
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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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