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Social Protection and Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Evaluation of Cash Transfer Programmes

d'Agostino, Giorgio; Pieroni, Luca; Scarlato, Margherita - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

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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Efficient water management: way forward to climate smart grain legumes production

Singh, Anil Kumar; Singh, K.M.; Bhatt, B.P. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

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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The economics of food security in Arab micro states: preliminary evidence from micro data

Basher, Syed Abul; Raboy, David G.; Kaitibie, Simeon; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

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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On the composite indicators for food security: Decisions matter!

Santeramo, Fabio Gaetano - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

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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Use of Contingent Valuation to Assess Farmer Preference for On-farm Conservation of Minor Millets: Case from South India

Raghu, P.T.; Das, S.; Ravi, S.B.; King, E.D.I.O - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

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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Does Kitchen Garden and Backyard Livestock Farming Help Combat Food Insecurity?

Bhatta, Kiran Prasad; Ishida, Akira; Taniguchi, Kenji; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

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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Mobilizing Neglected and Underutilized Crops to Strengthen Food Security and Alleviate Poverty in India

Ravi, S.B.; Hrideek, T.K.; Kumar, A.T.K.; Prabhakaran, T.R. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

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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Региональная политика и продовольственная безопасность субъекта Российской Федерации

Kaluzhsky, Mikhail - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998

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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Climatic shocks and food security in developing countries

Badolo, Felix; Kinda, Somlanare Romuald - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper contributes to the existing literature on climatic variability and food security. It analyzes the effect of climatic shocks on food security for 77 developing countries from 1960 to 2008. Using two complementary indicators of food security (food supply, proportion of undernourished...

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Food security in South Asia: strategies and programmes for regional collaboration

Iqbal, Muhammad; Amjad, Rashid - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

The study examines movements over time in key factors influencing food security in South Asia. Country level and regional level food security indices (FSI) were constructed to track progress in achieving food security keeping in view its availability, stability, access, and nutritional status...

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