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This 2012 Global Food Policy Report is the second in an annual series that provides an in-depth look at major food policy developments and events. Initiated in response to resurgent interest in food security, the series offers a yearly overview of the food policy developments that have...
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In Food and Agriculture in Ethiopia: Progress and Policy Challenges, Paul Dorosh and Shahidur Rashid, along with other … experts, tell the story of Ethiopia's political, economic, and agricultural transformation. The book is designed to provide … empirical evidence to shed light on the complexities of agricultural and food policy in today's Ethiopia, highlight major …
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"On farm conservation of crop diversity poses obvious policy challenges in terms of the design of appropriate incentive mechanisms and possible trade-offs between conservation and productivity. This paper compares factors explaining the inter-specific diversity (diversity among species) and...
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following the 2002 drought in Ethiopia: a food-for-work program known as the Employment Generation Schemes (EGS) and a program …
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reduction in Ethiopia, and what kind of agricultural and nonagricultural growth is needed to achieve the millennium development … agriculture has the potential to play a central role in decreasing poverty and increasing growth in Ethiopia, primarily through …
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This study provides an independent external assessment of the impact of IFPRI’s work in Ethiopia during 1995–2010 …. From 1995 to 2004, nearly all of IFPRI’s Ethiopia work was undertaken by Washington-based research teams working on … specific themes under various “global research programsâ€. In each case, Ethiopia represented one of several case studies in …
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The evidence of improved performance of agriculture in Africa south of the Sahara (SSA) in recent years has indeed been …
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of labor-intensive agricultural technologies, to extend and strengthen school systems in rural areas, to promote … competition in off-farm labor markets, and to eliminate discrimination against women. The authors conclude that there is no …
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This paper examines the relationship between employment risk and job-seeker performance. To induce exogenous variation in employment risk, the outside options for job seekers undergoing a real recruitment process were randomized by assigning them a 0, 1, 5, 50, 75, or 100 percent chance of real...
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include (1) a greater dependence on cash income; (2) weaker informal safety nets; (3) greater labor force participation of …
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