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The second of three books in IFPRI's climate change in Africa series, East African Agriculture and Climate Change: A … contributors of East African Agriculture and Climate Change present plausible future scenarios that combine economic and … biophysical characteristics to explore the possible consequences for agriculture, food security, and resources management to 2050 …
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Ethiopia enjoyed remarkable economic growth from 2004/05 to 2008/09, in large part due to increases in foreign transfers and capital inflows combined with expanded domestic credit to fund major increases in private and public investments in infrastructure and housing. However, this rapid growth...
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The fundamental purpose of agriculture is not just to produce food and raw materials, but also to grow healthy, well … require closer collaboration across the sectors of agriculture, nutrition, and health, which have long operated in separate … spheres with little recognition of how their actions affect each other. It is time for agriculture, nutrition, and health to …
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should be done in the future? In 2011, agriculture moved to the forefront of the international development agenda. In … addition to producing adequate food, agriculture's crucial role in improving nutrition and health, sustainably making use of …
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The Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) is one of the main components of the New Partnership …
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Extreme poverty and chronic malnutrition are widespread in rural Tanzania, where smallholder agriculture dominates the … economy. Given the sector's role as the main source of food and livelihood for many malnourished people, agriculture has …, we explore the links between agriculture and nutrition in Tanzania and review the evidence on how these links can be …
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The fundamental purpose of agriculture is not just to produce food and raw materials, but also to grow healthy, well … require closer collaboration across the sectors of agriculture, nutrition, and health, which have long operated in separate … spheres with little recognition of how their actions affect each other. It is time for agriculture, nutrition, and health to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010611943
The authors assess the role various strategies can play in augmenting global food supplies and combating hunger.They attempt to defuse the contentious debate surrounding the development and spread of genetically modified (GM) foods, which, they argue, can help meet the needs of the poor.The...
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Determining the causality between health measures and both income and labor productivity remains an ongoing challenge for economists. This review paper aims to answer the question: Does improved population health lead to higher rates of agricultural growth? In attempting to answer this question,...
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shifted away from agriculture-based strategies toward nutrient supplementation and food fortification programs. Given the … potential benefits resulting from agriculture-based nutrition interventions, this study uses Q methodology to explore the views … fortification, and the degree to which agriculture-based approaches have an impact on nutrition. The findings indicate that there is …
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