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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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remedy pervasive market failures in rural economies. The analysis presented here with a case study from eastern Kenya has …
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. Case studies utilizing client consultation in Ghana, India, Kenya, and Mali illustrate the hypothesis that integration of …
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group ranches to individualized property systems among the Maasai pastoralists of Kajiado district in Kenya. It addresses …
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efforts to effectively reduce human exposure to aflatoxins and increase the economic returns to smallholders in agriculture …. Aflatoxicosis: Evidence from Kenya by Abigael Obura 3. Aflatoxin Exposure and Chronic Human Diseases: Estimates of Burden of Disease …: Implications for Intervention in Kenya by Sophie Walker and Bryn Davies 8. Market-led Aflatoxin Interventions: Smallholder …
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This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) baseline survey …
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In this paper we used a dynamic, regionalized computable general equilibrium (CGE) model to analyze the effect of various negative balance of payments shocks on output and employment and the effect of different alternative investment strategies on growth. The model shows clearly how sensitive El...
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agriculture and concentrating investment in coastal manufacturing. In contrast, conditional cash transfers reduce regional and …
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and services. Since agriculture currently dominates Ethiopia's economy and employment, however, there is an issue as to … grow more rapidly than the agricultural sector. The slower growth of agriculture, its relative decline, concern about the … difficulty of modernizing agriculture and pessimism about the potentials for technological change in agriculture suggest to some …
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