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-Saharan Africa. But more than 60% people of Kenya live below the poverty line. Rapid increases in inflation could reduce economic … growth and worsen the poverty levels of the citizens of Kenya. In Kenya economic development is dependent on agricultural … Kenya comes from the selling of agricultural products. At present the government of the country is trying to reduce poverty …
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poverty line. Rapid increases in inflation could reduce economic growth and worsen the poverty levels of the citizens of Kenya … Government of the country is trying to reduce poverty. The country is developing in food security and nutrition since the last … decade. To make the country in a medium develop Government should stress on food security, poverty reduction, transformation …
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This paper evaluates the effects of cash transfer (CT) programmes introduced during the 1990s and 2000s on food security in a sample of sub-Saharan African countries. We apply the synthetic control method to compare changes in the post-intervention food insecurity trajectories of economies...
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The most important way to increase the grain yield of food legumes per unit area under stress environment should be consist of proper technological backup with infrastructure, timely availability of quality inputs along with policy support. Efficient water management is one of the critical...
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Using Qatar as a case study, we exploit a novel micro dataset for 102 raw agricultural imported commodities on a shipment-by-shipment basis over the period January 1, 2005 to June 30, 2010. The data comprise over half a million individual observations, with a very rich set of characteristic...
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During the past decades, there has been much debate on food security. A variety of indicators have been proposed in order to establish which countriesare in need of improved food security status. The heterogeneity of existing indicators and the lack of consensus on how to compare and rank...
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Smallholder farmers all over the world, particularly in regions of rich agro-biodiversity contribute to on-farm conservation. Past and present agricultural progress could not have happened neither without these genetic resources nor the associated farmer knowledge. Six species of minor millets...
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households from the NLSS II data were found to be food poor. However, analysis of the severity and depth of poverty as well as … analysis of inequality in per capita food consumption expenditures showed food-poor households to be close to the poverty line … as well as these being less disparity in food consumption. Thus, we can say that food poverty is not very severe and …
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The M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai in collaboration with Bioversity International, Rome has been implementing a project on neglected and underutilized crops with the support of the International Fund for Agricultural Development, Rome. The neglected and underutilized crops chosen...
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In article problems of social and economic development of subjects of the Russian Federation through a prism of realization of a regional policy of the Federal Centre are analyzed. The author considers observable relationships of cause and effect within the limits of the processes causing...
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