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traditional obstacles to improving their livelihoods. To cope with these obstacles, the rural poor draw on indigenous knowledge … and innovate through local experimentation and adaptation. Indigenous knowledge alone, however, is not enough to deal with … for biofuels require complementary knowledge from formal agricultural research and development (R&D) and support from …
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studied consumers' answers to various knowledge, attitude, perception, and practice (KAPP) questions also collected through …
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also identified. The review concludes that there is an increasing need to work in partnership and to share knowledge and …
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This research has been undertaken to improve our understanding of stakeholders’ knowledge and perception about … to every individual’s decisionmaking. Knowledge can affect attitudes and behavioral intentions, and a positive attitude …
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Although food security measurement has been substantially expanded in recent decades, there persists significant … dissatisfaction with existing measurement systems, especially in the wake of the global food and financial crisis. In this paper we … first set out a list of criteria that an ideal food security measurement system should satisfy. We then benchmark existing …
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"In Tanzania, as in many other developing countries, the conventional wisdom is that economic reforms may have stimulated economic growth, but that the benefits of this growth have been uneven, favoring urban households and farmers with good market access. This idea, although quite plausible,...
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"With high food prices threatening the food security of millions of vulnerable households around the world, hunger and malnutrition are back in the headlines. The world is making only slow progress in reducing food insecurity, according to the Global Hunger Index (GHI). Some regions—in...
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reliable empirical estimates of poverty levels has grown dramatically... This paper contributes to the poverty measurement …
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attractiveness of the CBN approach for practical poverty measurement problems." Authors' Abstract …
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