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The Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) is one of the main components of the New Partnership … nutrition security in Africa. CAADP seeks to promote policies and partnerships and raise investments in Africa's agricultural … stakeholders around a set of key values and principles; create partnership mechanisms at continental, regional, and country levels …
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specific investments in education, health, and nutrition. The paper first describes PROGRESA/Oportunidades and estimates of the …
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utilized to demonstrate risk assessment capabilities. The addition of climate variability to the agro-economic model provides a …
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supply. Such "land-improving investments" are needed to reduce production and subsistence risks and permit more intensive use …
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"Sustained, well-targeted, and effectively used investments in R&D have reaped handsome rewards from improved … investments in agricultural R&D are changing in ways that may have profound consequences for the structure of agriculture …
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"Science and technology (S&T) are major contributors to food security, poverty reduction, and economic growth, as has been proven in Asia since the early-1970s through the Green Revolution in agriculture. Continuing to secure such gains, however, is becoming an increasingly complex undertaking....
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"Governments in Asia used grain price stabilization as a major policy instrument when they began to promote the Green Revolution in the 1960s. In the process, they created parastatal agencies, which were quasi-governmental in nature, to undertake public marketing activities in basic staples such...
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"While nutritional intake in early childhood provides the basis for a child's health capital, investments in schooling … provide the basis for a child's knowledge capital. That store of knowledge, in turn, will eventually be rewarded in the labor …
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