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, including a synopsis of the new Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008. It examines the United States' notifications to the …
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directly from these local offices or through local cooperatives. The evaluation shows that competition between entrepreneurial …
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Rapidly increasing mobile phone coverage, cheaper technology, and an open platform that allows for the development of applications that extend the use of mobile devices provide new ways to reach farmers in isolated places. We investigate the impact of an intervention that uses information and...
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development programs on how to incorporate gender and assets in the design, implementation, and evaluation of interventions. This … evaluation of agricultural development projects. All projects were associated with increases in asset levels and other benefits …
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"It has often been argued that new agricultural technologies lead to poverty reduction. This paper argues that any changes in poverty situation attributed to those who adopt new agricultural technology (treatment group) without a counterfactual comparison of carefully selected nonadopters...
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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 … 2006—the most recent available global data—and does not yet take account of the latest changes in the world food system, in …
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