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In MENA, household food insecurity, which is closely related to poverty and undernourishment, is most severe in rural …
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This study provides an independent external assessment of the impact of IFPRI’s work in Ethiopia during 1995–2010. From 1995 to 2004, nearly all of IFPRI’s Ethiopia work was undertaken by Washington-based research teams working on specific themes under various “global...
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"It has often been argued that new agricultural technologies lead to poverty reduction. This paper argues that any … changes in poverty situation attributed to those who adopt new agricultural technology (treatment group) without a … effects of new agricultural technology on poverty reduction by employing the “double difference” method on data collected in …
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challenges in areas such as food security, agricultural development, rural poverty, and environmental protection; to catalyze a …
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The introduction and dissemination of improved dairy cow breeds in Uganda is arguably the most significant step taken to develop a modern and commercial dairy industry in the country over the last two decades. This study uses a nationally representative sample of Ugandan households to rigorously...
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IEl Ãndice Global del Hambre (GHI) de este año muestra que el hambre global ha disminuido desde 1990 –pero no en forma dramática–y permanece en un nivel que se puede considerar como “serioâ€. Los puntajes del GHI varían ampliamente entre los diferentes países y regiones. Los...
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Empirical evidence suggests that women are more vulnerable to chronic poverty and gender inequality is likely to … condition the impacts of policies on the rest of the economy and consequently on poverty itself. While gender …
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Alors qu’il ne reste plus qu’une année avant la date d’échéance de la réalisation des Objectifs du Millénaire pour le développement, l’Indice de la faim dans le monde 2014 (GHI) offre une analyse multidimensionnelle de la faim et présente de nouvelles données permettant...
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Il Global Hunger Index (GHI) di quest’anno mostra che la fame nel mondo è diminuita dal 1990, ma non in modo notevole, e rimane a un livello classifi cato come “graveâ€. I livelli di GHI variano molto da regione a regione e da paese a paese. I punteggi più alti di GHI si registrano...
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This paper presents evidence on rural Ethiopian households’ time allocation to different activities, especially fuel collection work, and examines the effect of changes in the availability of firewood resources on households’ time allocation to fuel collection and on- and off-farm...
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