Those who study global poverty and ways to reduce it face a perennial set of questions: Do advances in knowledge … benefits? The contributors to Agricultural Research, Livelihoods, and Poverty shed light on these questions through a … collection of case studies that explore the types of impact that agricultural research has had on livelihoods and poverty in low …

interest to the US Government’s Feed the Future initiative. These poverty, health, and nutrition outcomes include both …

"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 …

This paper examines the impact over the life course of early childhood growth failure as measured by achieved height at … not suffer growth failure in the first three years of life complete more schooling, score higher on tests of cognitive … pregnancies and smaller risk of miscarriages and stillbirths. Growth failure has adverse impacts on body size and several …

Public Expenditures, Growth, and Poverty assesses the efficacy of poverty reduction programs in Latin America, Africa … safety net programs and a chapter devoted solely to the vexing poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, Public Expenditures, Growth … long term, while food aid and poverty reduction programs have little utility beyond immediately abating hunger and …

as a continent-wide framework to facilitate faster agricultural growth and progress toward poverty reduction and food and … growth and poverty-reduction outcomes. …The Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) is one of the main components of the New Partnership …