Contents: 1.The Changing Profile of Poverty in the World/Shaohua Chen and Martin Ravallion. 2.Characteristics and … Causes of Severe Poverty and Hunger/Akhter U. Ahmed, Ruth Vargas Hill, Lisa C. Smith, and Tim Frankenberger. 3.The Poorest …/Todd Benson, Michael Epprecht, and Nicholas Minot 5.Child Malnutrition in India and China/Peter Svedberg. 6.Poverty and the …

nature of smallholder agriculture in Africa; the many factors shaping the location, nature, and performance of agricultural …

Comprehensive Analysis examines the food security threats facing 10 of the countries that make up east and central Africa - Burundi …The second of three books in IFPRI's climate change in Africa series, East African Agriculture and Climate Change: A … will increase the efforts needed to achieve sustainable food security throughout the region. East Africa's populations is …

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 …

Public Expenditures, Growth, and Poverty assesses the efficacy of poverty reduction programs in Latin America, Africa … safety net programs and a chapter devoted solely to the vexing poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, Public Expenditures, Growth … long term, while food aid and poverty reduction programs have little utility beyond immediately abating hunger and …

-poor agricultural growth and of policies that can promote such growth in poor rural economies in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa …. Agricultural growth, a critical driver in poverty reducing growth in many poor agrarian economies in the past, faces many … difficulties in today's poor rural areas in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Some of these difficulties are endogenous to these …

In MENA, household food insecurity, which is closely related to poverty and undernourishment, is most severe in rural …