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The initial success of microfinance programs in the 1970s led pioneers to think that many essential problems of the poor might be resolved by access to credit alone -- the ability to acquire assets, to start businesses, to finance emergency needs and to insure against illness and disaster. Part...
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's nutritional status as measured by anthropometry. This research in Tanzania is the first attempt to map nutrition in an African … spatial distribution of undernutrition in Tanzania?...The answer to the question of whether nutrition mapping is feasible is a …
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CARE's experiences in Bangladesh and Tanzania suggest a number of ways that rapid assessment procedures can be strengthened …
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Tanzania to explore the possibility of applying small-area estimation methods to the study of children's nutritional status as … districts and subdistricts. In the case of Tanzania, the nutrition mapping approach reveals considerable heterogeneity in …
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CARE's experiences in Bangladesh and Tanzania suggest a number of ways that rapid assessment procedures can be strengthened …
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As part of the Tanzania country study being done under the IFPRI research project on Macroeconomic Reform and Regional … Integration in Southern Africa (MERRISA), a social accounting matrix (SAM) has been constructed for the base year 1992. A SAM is a … agricultural production in Tanzania accounts for about half of GDP, the disaggregated Tanzania SAM contains 21 agricultural sectors …
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"Given that Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest incidence of poverty and malnutrition in the world, the stagnation in … per capita grain production there is worrisome. Since 1970, per capita grain production in Sub-Saharan Africa has declined … most sustainable ways to expand food production in Sub-Saharan Africa is to generate new technologies—including staple seed …
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There is widespread agreement that our ability to deliver sustainable food security for all will be challenged in three dimensions—population growth, constrained natural resources, and climate change. Investments in agricultural productivity are essential to dealing with these challenges....
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institutionalized. This review brings together experiences from across Sub-Saharan Africa in order to draw out recommendations for …
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