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Those who study global poverty and ways to reduce it face a perennial set of questions: Do advances in knowledge, research, and technology make a real difference in the lives of poor people? What effect does research have on the poor? Who benefits? The contributors to Agricultural Research,...
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accounts for the largest share of overall income inequality. But agriculture is still the rural people's major source of …
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experience of scaling up successful interventions in agriculture, rural development, and nutrition under five broad headings: (1 … Agriculture to Reduce Poverty and Hunger by Kevin Cleaver •Moving Local- and Community-Driven Development from Boutique to Large … Network: Expanding Rural Support Programs in South Asia by Henri Suter, Leanne Sedowski, and Joanne Trotter •SEWA: Supporting …
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. This task is especially formidable in Asia, where more than two-thirds of the world’s poor and malnourished people live …. Food prices in Asia are projected to remain high and volatile, and food production is likely to be challenged by the … requires urgent actions to improve the productivity and climate resilience of agriculture and to upgrade the food value chains …
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have experienced the reduction of farm size and the decline of natural resources. Through a comparison of Asia and Africa …
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This 2013 Global Food Policy Report is the third in an annual series that provides an in-depth look at major food policy developments and events. Initiated in response to resurgent interest in food and nutrition security, the series offers a yearly overview of the food policy developments that...
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, and Asia by synthesizing studies conducted by the International Food Policy Research Institute over the past ten years …
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developing countries in Asia. The authors examine the shifting structure of supply and demand in the grain markets, the history …
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In Regional Trading Arrangements among Developing Countries: The ASEAN Example, Research Report 103, Dean A. DeRosa examines the experiences of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) with regional investment and trade arrangements and presents a quantitative analysis of the economic...
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"In its pursuit of poverty alleviation and development, China has charted its own path, suitable for its own conditions. This path involves government leadership, social participation, self-reliance, an orientation toward economic development, and an integrated development approach... Although...
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