irrigation water. Households with poor health are less likely to adopt productivity-enhancing as well as resource … irrigation dams cannot be known a priori due to potential health costs, the empirical evidence shows that current agricultural …The author looks at the feasibility and potential of instituting small-scale irrigation dams to reduce Ethiopia s …

specifically on the role of two areas of public policy, namely health system reforms and the one child policy. The empirical … associated with improved nutritional status in the preferred model. Data are drawn from four waves of the China Health and … Nutrition Survey. …

This paper examines the distribution of climate change impacts across the 16 agro-ecological zones in Africa using data …-ecological zones implies that the effects of climate change will vary across Africa. For example, currently productive areas such as …

modified Heckman model, is then estimated across 8,400 farmers in Africa. The analysis explicitly models irrigation but … agriculture community. The results indicate that irrigation is an effective adaptation against loss of rainfall and higher …Previous Ricardian analyses of agriculture have either omitted irrigation or treated irrigation as though it is …

In Africa, most development strategies include efforts to improve the productivity of staple crops grown on smallholder … farms. An underlying premise is that small farms are productive in the African context and that smallholders do not forgo … production increases. This paper explores a research design conundrum that encourages researchers who study the relationship …

undernourishment (hunger), largely through gaining farmers and others access to productivity-enhancing equipment, translating into … productivity, including higher cereal yields, through increased fertilizer and tractor use. Higher productivity in turn leads to …

Half of all undernourished women and children in South Asia are not found in the bottom 40 percent of wealth …

helped 0-5 year old children in the participating communities to bridge the gap in weight for age z-scores and the incidence …

malnutrition rates over the last two decades shows that, despite some improvements, approximately half of the children under five … economic factors contribute to malnutrition. Using the 2000 Ethiopia Demographic and Health Survey data, this study examines … the impact of access to basic environmental services, such as water and sanitation on the probability children are stunted …

young children. A combination of income growth and nutrition interventions are therefore suggested to adequately tackle this …Malnutrition is associated with an inadequate diet, poor health and sanitation services, and insufficient care for … joint contribution of income growth and nutrition interventions toward the reduction of malnutrition. Using a four …