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West African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis
Jalloh, Abdulai; Nelson, Gerald C.; Thomas, Timothy S.; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013
The first of three books in IFPRI’s climate change in Africa series, West African Agriculture and Climate Change: A … Comprehensive Analysis examines the food security threats facing 11 of the countries that make up West Africa — Benin, Burkina … change will increase the efforts needed to achieve sustainable food security throughout the region. West Africa’s population …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010755479
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West African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis
Jalloh, Abdulai (contributor); Nelson, Gerald C. (contributor) - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
The first of three books in IFPRI’s climate change in Africa series, West African Agriculture and Climate Change: A … Comprehensive Analysis examines the food security threats facing 11 of the countries that make up West Africa – Benin, Burkina Faso … will increase the efforts needed to achieve sustainable food security throughout the region. West Africa’s population is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011145651
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Droughts and floods in Malawi
Pauw, Karl; Thurlow, James; van Seventer, Dirk - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010
estimate the economywide impacts of drought- and flood-related crop production losses. Climate simulations are based on … production loss estimates from stochastic drought and flood models. Model results show that the economic losses due to extreme …, it is smaller-scale farmers and those in the flood-prone southern regions of the country who are worst affected. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008505314
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Foreign exchange rationing, wheat markets and food security in Ethiopia:
Dorosh, Paul A.; Ahmed, Hashim - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009
In spite of remarkable growth in Ethiopia’s agricultural production and overall real incomes (GDP/capita) from 2004/05 to 2008/09, prices of major cereals (teff, maize, wheat and sorghum) have fluctuated sharply in both nominal and real terms. International prices of cereals also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132610
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Climate change and floods in Yemen: Impacts on food security and options for adaptation
Wiebelt, Manfred; Breisinger, Clemens; Ecker, Olivier; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011
percent of pre-flood agricultural value added. Due to the direct flood loss, farmers in the flooding areas suffer most in the … year of the flood occurrence, where the percentage of hungry people living from farming spiked by about 15 percentage … points as an immediate result of the flood. Action to mitigate the negative effects of climate change and variability should …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009395607
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Short- and long-term effects of the 1998 Bangladesh flood on rural wages
Mueller, Valerie; Quisumbing, Agnes - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010
climate change increases the frequency of natural disasters. We use the Bangladesh Flood Impact panel household survey to … evaluate how the 1998 “flood of the century” affected wages in Bangladesh. We find long-term declines in wages where … economic activity are more vulnerable to flood-induced wage losses. Our findings suggest that future emergency relief and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008478783
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Indice globale della fame: La sfida della fame 2013: Sviluppare la resilienza delle comunita per la sicurezza alimentare e nutrizionale
von Grebmer, Klaus; Headey, Derek; Bene, Christophe; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
L Indice Globale della Fame 2013 (GHI), relativo ai dati del periodo 2008-2012, mostra che la fame mondiale e diminuita di un terzo rispetto al 1990. Nonostante i progressi, il livello della fame nel mondo rimane "grave", con 870 milioni di persone a soffrirne, secondo le stime...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010850585
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2013 Global Hunger Index: The challenge of hunger: Building resilience to achieve food and nutrition security
von Grebmer, Klaus; Headey, Derek; Bene, Christophe; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
The 2013 Global Hunger Index (GHI), which reflects data from the period 2008 to 2012, shows that global hunger has improved since 1990, falling by one-third. Despite the progress made, the level of hunger in the world remains serious, with 870 million people going hungry, according to estimates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010850587
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2014 Global Hunger Index: The challenge of hidden hunger
von Grebmer, Klaus; Saltzman, Amy; Birol, Ekin; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
highest GHI scores—and therefore the highest hunger levels—are in Africa south of the Sahara and South Asia, which have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010960210
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2014 Global Hunger Index: The challenge of hidden hunger
von Grebmer, Klaus; Saltzman, Amy; Birol, Ekin; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
highest GHI scores—and therefore the highest hunger levels—are in Africa south of the Sahara and South Asia, which have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010960211