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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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"Increased regional inequality has been a major concern in many emerging economies like China, India, Vietnam and … China. This snapshot view of inequality within and between rural villages in western China is based on a census … 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 … Massler •Rehabilitating China’s Loess Plateau by John Mackedon •Building on Successes with Regreening in the West African …
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requires urgent actions to improve the productivity and climate resilience of agriculture and to upgrade the food value chains …
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"This paper uses household panel and village census data from Indonesia to examine the impact of spatial connectivity (road) development on household income growth and nonagricultural labor supply. The empirical results show that the impacts of improvements in local road quality (which...
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Rapid population growth in many developing countries has raised concerns regarding food security and household welfare. To understand the consequences of population growth on in the general equilibrium setting, we examine the dynamics of population density and its impacts on household outcomes...
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former casts doubt about the role of agriculture in economic development in smallholders dominated countries and the later … recent decades. The results suggest that (1) agriculture as a source of income declined significantly over the past two …
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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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Agriculture is the largest contributor to the economic well-being of most Nigerians. For the agriculture sector to … also been shown that agriculture R&D could increase agriculture growth and reduce poverty (Fan 2008; Thirtle et al. 2003 …). Therefore, research-based evidence is important to guide decisions that affect Nigeria's agriculture sector and its people. The …
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