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Zambia is a landlocked country located in southern central Africa and it is one of the poorest countries in the world … Zambia and mortality rates are among the highest in the world. The rural transportation network is largely undeveloped and …
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) programs to si- multaneously achieve conservation and poverty alleviation, there is not a great deal of understanding of … whether they work in practice, and how incentives and local management do, indeed affect poverty and local resource use. In …
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Zambia during the 1990s, and to explore the poverty impacts of non-traditional export growth. We look at consumption and …In this paper, we have two main objectives: to investigate the links between globalization and poverty observed in …
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evidence, neither empirical nor theoretical, that population controls would solve poverty and contribute to development …
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We examine the effects of cold weather periods on family budgets and on nutritional outcomes in poor American families. Expenditures on food and home fuels are tracked by linking the Consumer Expenditure Survey to temperature data. Using the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination...
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We examine the extent to which food insecurity questions and the standard poverty measure are correlated with various … related to the diets of children. In contrast, poverty predicts dietary outcomes among preschoolers. Among adults, both … poverty and food insecurity questions are good predictors of many dietary outcomes …
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Food security is about ensuring that all people at all times have both physical and economic access to the basic food they need. In a number of African countries chronic malnutrition and transitory food insecurity are pervasive. Like most African countries, Eritrea is also a victim of the...
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Based on meso data, study analyses the causes of poverty and food insecurity. It seeks to identify who is food insecure … financial services and promoting small scale industries as well as micro enterprises and strengthening anti-poverty programmes … within the state. The two district sampled, where more or less half population are under poverty. Livelihood options are …
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poverty and agriculture in Tamil Nadu. The paper examined present status and trends in rural poverty in Tamil Nadu. It also … between agriculture and poverty, the study argued that agricultural development would ensure food security, health and … nutritional security, income and employment security, and economic and social security and thereby facilitate removal of poverty …
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Its diverse agroecology has endowed Ethiopia with enormous honey production potential in Africa. Nevertheless, due to the undeveloped production system and poor market linkage with the global arena, the country could not fetch proportional benefits from this resource. To enhance better...
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