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Challenges for Food Security in Eritrea -- A Descriptive and Qualitative Analysis
Rena, Ravinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
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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Dynamics of Poverty and Food Insecurity in Orissa:Macro Analysis and Case Studies
MK, Sinha; P., Nanda; A., Kumar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
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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Declining economy in Zambia and its impact in food security
Mohajan, Haradhan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Zambia is a landlocked country located in southern central Africa and it is one of the poorest countries in the world and is considered a least developed country. Malnutrition is a chronic and difficult problem in this country. Agriculture is the main occupation and maize is the staple food....
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Rural Poverty and Agricultural Development in Tamil Nadu
Dhas, Albert Christopher - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113543
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Green revolution: Indian agricultural experience – a paradigm for Eritrea
Rena, Ravinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
Food problem became more severe after the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, presenting a series challenges to India’s agricultural sector. Even during good harvest years, food imports remain high. A large segment of people were poor. To mitigate these problems, India adopted farming...
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SOCIAL SECURITY FOR UNORGANISED WORKERS IN INDIA
Dhas, Albert Christopher; Helen, Mary Jacqueline - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The unorganised workers account for about 93 per cent of the total workforce and there is a steady growth in it over years in India. It is argued that India had a long tradition of informal social security and social assistance system directed particularly towards the more vulnerable sections of...
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FOOD SECURITY AND PDS IN TRIPURA: A POLICY INTERVENTION
De, Utpal Kumar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000
Tripura is facing the problem of food insecurity for quite some long period of time and lagging behind the most other states of India with respect to the development of human capital, agriculture and industry. Food security is one of the basic criteria for the formation and improvement of human...
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The Challenge of Food Security and Mediterranean Diet in the Euro-Mediterranean Area
Venditto, Bruno; Caruso, Immacolata; Noviello, Valentina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The Mediterranean Diet (MD) derived from the Greek word “díaita” according to nutritionists is a “traditional diet” which is adapted to all people living in countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea whose ancestors moved to the “cultivated food”. In recent years the MD has received...
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Dietary quality and tree cover in Africa
Ickowitz, Amy; Powell, Bronwen; Salim, Mohammad; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The relationship between forests and human nutrition is not yet well understood. A better understanding of this relationship is vital at a time when the majority of new land for agriculture is being cleared from forests. We use Demographic Health Survey food consumption data for over 93,000...
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The impacts of the global food and financial crises on household food security and economic well-being: evidence from Bangladesh
Sonia, Akter; Syed Abul, Basher - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper presents the first household-level study to examine the combined impacts of the global food and financial crises on household food security and economic well-being in a developing country. Using longitudinal survey data of 1,800 rural households from 12 districts of Bangladesh over...
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