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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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interest to the US Government’s Feed the Future initiative. These poverty, health, and nutrition outcomes include both …
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In an effort to inform social policy in Mexico, this paper analyzes the effects of a major social program on school attendance and household income distribution, accounting for its partial and general equilibrium effects. Linking a microeconometric simulation model and a general equilibrium...
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on growth, employment and poverty in South Africa. More specifically, it examines how men and women have been affected … differently and whether liberalization has contributed to the faster rise in female unemployment and poverty. The results suggest … that trade policies have not contributed to increased poverty and that trade-induced technological change has accelerated …
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remedy pervasive market failures in rural economies. The analysis presented here with a case study from eastern Kenya has …
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. Case studies utilizing client consultation in Ghana, India, Kenya, and Mali illustrate the hypothesis that integration of …
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group ranches to individualized property systems among the Maasai pastoralists of Kajiado district in Kenya. It addresses …
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. Aflatoxicosis: Evidence from Kenya by Abigael Obura 3. Aflatoxin Exposure and Chronic Human Diseases: Estimates of Burden of Disease …: Implications for Intervention in Kenya by Sophie Walker and Bryn Davies 8. Market-led Aflatoxin Interventions: Smallholder …
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The Atlas of African Agriculture Research & Development is a multifaceted resource that high­lights the ubiquitous nature of smallholder agriculture in Africa; the many factors shaping the location, nature, and performance of agricultural enterprises; and the strong interde­pendencies among...
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, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Kenya, Madagascar, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda - and explores how climate change …
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