that biofuels investment enhances growth and poverty reduction despite some displacement of food crops by biofuels. Overall … reduces the incidence of poverty by about six percentage points over a 12-year phase-in period. Benefits depend on production …

employment with interesting gender implications. Likewise, aggregate household incomes rise, including for poor and vulnerable … farmers, highlighting that Bt cotton contributes to poverty reduction and rural development. …

poverty. In short run, the oil-biofuels nexus was clearly the driving force behind the surge in food prices, but export … sharply in many countries, and that global poverty levels have increased markedly. The good news is that the supply response … clear that additional people will fall into poverty and become food insecure. Lastly, the global food system is …

This study evaluates the impacts of a community-driven development (CDD) project on household income and acquisition of … finds that the project succeeded in targeting the poor and women farmers in its productive asset acquisition component …

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This paper analyzes the household level impact of an increase in price of major tradable staple foods in a cross … section of developing countries, using nationally representative household surveys. We find that, in the short term, poorer … strategies and other key household characteristics drive the magnitude and distribution of the effects of the price increases. …

-being and investigates its implication for poverty reduction. Data were collected randomly from 245 smallholders in the province … that participation in contract farming is significantly associated with type of household, age of household head, size of …

producing jatropha feedstock for biodiesel. Under all scenarios, biofuels investments accelerate GDP growth and reduce poverty …. However, a stronger trade-off between biofuels and food availability emerges when female labor is used intensively, as women … are drawn away from food production. A skills-shortage amongst female workers also limits poverty reduction. Policy …

technologies on consumption expenditure and poverty measured by headcount, poverty gap and poverty severity indices. The paper is … based on a cross-sectional farm household level data collected in 2008 from a sample of 594 households in rural Malawi. A … impacts of improved groundnut variety adoption on per capita consumption expenditure and on poverty reduction. The findings …

has made in accelerating agricultural growth and poverty reduction. To examine how agriculture and the rural poor may be … production portfolio and input usage. Specifically, the paper estimates a rice yield function based on household-level crop … of poverty reduction, food security and climate change adaptation. …