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This food policy report reviews resilience processes, activities, and outcomes by examining a number of case studies of initiatives by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to enhance resilience capacity, and draws implications for policymakers and other stakeholders looking to strengthen resilience.
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across multiple dimensions, including people's livelihoods, the sustainability of the resource base, and the effectiveness of … governance to promote strategies and policies targeted toward the achievement of gender equity, poverty reduction, and …
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factors at play behind these conflicts, notably the combination of resource scarcity with a crisis of governance that is … mechanized farming areas, oil infrastructure, and other private investments. In their analysis of natural resource governance in … concerning natural resources has undermined governance of these resources. While conflicts between farmers and herders were …
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social outcomes. Interventions by community, market, and state actors can enhance the sustainability of supply chains by …
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Recent food safety events have raised concerns about food traceability in both developed and developing countries. In this paper we study the decision to adopt a traceability system in a supply chain with repeated upstream and downstream moral hazard and imperfect consumer monitoring. In...
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Drawing on a household survey collected in eight woredas in seven Ethiopian regions in 2009, as well as on qualitative fieldwork in four of the eight woredas, this paper provides analysis of agricultural extension delivery in Ethiopia. While overall extension services are relatively accessible...
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, poverty reduction, and environmental sustainability. This paper examines strategic policy choices and governance challenges … initiatives depends on more systemic governance reforms that address issues of stakeholder representation, mechanisms of …
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implement due to governance challenges related to elite capture, leakages, and corruption. The ability to identify how the … governance challenges of program implementation can be met requires detailed insights into the actual process of program … research method, referred to as Process-Influence Mapping, to shed light on these issues and related governance challenges …
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"We examine access to, use of, and participation in decisions on improved water supply in the Volta basin of Ghana, one of the first countries to introduce a community-based approach to rural water supply on a large scale. While 71 percent of the households interviewed have access to improved...
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