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interest to the US Government’s Feed the Future initiative. These poverty, health, and nutrition outcomes include both … low of 0.66 in Bangladesh. …
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This paper estimates the potential effects of achieving the agricultural goals set out in Iraq’s National Development Plan (NDP) 2013–2017 using a dynamic computable general equilibrium model. The findings suggest that raising agricultural productivity in accordance with the NDP...
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districts of Bangladesh in May 2012. The discussions and interviews draw attention to perceptions of climate change and how … responses to climate change in Bangladesh, it is essential to understand how people understand and cope with these trends. …
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Southern African Agriculture and Climate Change: A Comprehensive Analysis examines the food security threats facing eight of the countries that make up southern Africa — Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe — and explores how climate...
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In recent years, many people and parts of the world have been hit by major shocks ranging from conflicts, erratic weather patterns, earthquakes, droughts, and floods to food price spikes. At the same time, poor people and communities remain vulnerable to shocks that may be smaller in...
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Institute/International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center) household survey implemented by the Association of Ethiopian … Microfinance Institutions, the results show that women are involved in more time-consuming and simultaneous work activities than …
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This 2014–2015 Global Food Policy Report is the fourth in an annual series that provides a comprehensive overview of major food policy developments and events. In this report, distinguished researchers, policymakers, and practitioners review what happened in food policy in 2014 at the global,...
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Those who study global poverty and ways to reduce it face a perennial set of questions: Do advances in knowledge … benefits? The contributors to Agricultural Research, Livelihoods, and Poverty shed light on these questions through a … collection of case studies that explore the types of impact that agricultural research has had on livelihoods and poverty in low …
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This book describes how Bangladesh transformed its food markets and food policies to free the country from the constant … and led to policy changes. The case of Bangladesh also has more general relevance as a study of the outcomes of a market …
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is not yet fully understood. This paper investigates changes in assets owned by the household head, his spouse, or … jointly by both of them in response to shocks in rural agricultural households in Bangladesh with the help of detailed … household survey panel data. Land is owned mostly by men, who are wealthier than their spouses with respect to almost all types …
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