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This food policy report presents a typology of the diverse livelihood strategies and development pathways for smallholder farmers in developing countries, and offers policy recommendations to help potentially profitable smallholders meet emerging risks and challenges.
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State Land and Privatization in Vietnam; Common Property Forest Management in the Hill Region of Nepal; Timber Forest … fills this gap by looking at how land degradation and deforestation are being addressed at the local level, where households …, Land Tenure and Natural Resource Management examines the evolution of land tenure institutions within diverse cultural …
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plays in the process. We propose a set of indicators that uses information on available agricultural land and land … suitability to measure intensity of land use in agricultural production. Results show that half of the countries in our sample …, those with low population density, have followed a land-abundant intensification path with growth driven by new land …
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This paper uses a national-level geographic information system database on land use, weather conditions, land quality …, soil organic carbon (SOC), topographic features, and economic variables to analyze the major drivers of land use change and …. One is a spatial panel multinomial logit land use model that takes into account the spatial and temporal dependence of …
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The authors of this book identify the factors affecting land inheritance and schooling across generations in the … among its individual members. They look at how these differences in land holdings and education affect what sons and … conflict between policies to enhance the efficiency of investments in land and human capital and policies to promote gender …
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The first of three books in IFPRI’s climate change in Africa series, West African Agriculture and Climate Change: A Comprehensive Analysis examines the food security threats facing 11 of the countries that make up West Africa — Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea,...
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, and grazing land. We utilize existing studies of travel time (Schmidt and Kedir 2009) to calculate shares of livestock … provide greater insight of changes in available grazing land given increasing human and livestock population pressure. …
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forces, with the goal of informing two important policy questions. First, how do rural Ethiopians adapt to land constraints …? And second, do land constraints significantly influence welfare outcomes in rural Ethiopia? …
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, and Verification Methodologies for Agriculture, Forestry, and Other Land Use by Sean Smukler and Cheryl Palm •Synergies …
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