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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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governance to promote strategies and policies targeted toward the achievement of gender equity, poverty reduction, and …
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,117 households and 73 agricultural cooperatives. Using descriptive statistics and econometric analysis under a critical gender lens … in agricultural cooperatives. The findings suggest that a major barrier to women’s access are gender biases within …
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This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) baseline survey results, summarizing both findings from the WEAI survey and the relationships between the WEAI and various outcomes of interest to the US Government’s Feed the...
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Those who study global poverty and ways to reduce it face a perennial set of questions: Do advances in knowledge, research, and technology make a real difference in the lives of poor people? What effect does research have on the poor? Who benefits? The contributors to Agricultural Research,...
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"The reform experiences of China and India—similar in some ways and different in others—shed light on the enormous …
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"India's strategy for reducing poverty and hunger has always placed a great deal of importance on the agricultural …
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China and India are the most extraordinary economic success stories of the developing world. Both nations’ economies … capita incomes in China and India have quadrupled and doubled, respectively. This book investigates the reasons for these …
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. This task is especially formidable in Asia, where more than two-thirds of the world’s poor and malnourished people live …. Food prices in Asia are projected to remain high and volatile, and food production is likely to be challenged by the …
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policy use case studies from South Asia (Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan) and East Asia (Indonesia, the Philippines, and …In developing countries across Asia, food marketing parastatals have played an important role in agricultural policy …, the editors—clearly from the latter camp—pose three general questions: Why must parastatal-centered policies in Asia …
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