undernourishment (hunger), largely through gaining farmers and others access to productivity-enhancing equipment, translating into …

The developing world is experiencing substantial environmental change, and climate change is likely to accelerate these … processes in the coming decades. Due to their initial poverty, and their relatively high dependence on environmental capital for …. Economic growth is essential for any large-scale poverty reduction. Green growth, a growth process that is sensitive to …

This paper provides new insight into the poverty, malnutrition and vulnerability issues in Mali, using existing … the shocks. Finally, it estimates vulnerability to poverty by modeling both households' expected consumption and their … conventional knowledge about poverty, food poverty, and malnutrition. The prevalence of chronic malnutrition is high in Mali, with …

There is widespread interest in the number of hungry people in the world and trends in hunger. Current global counts … expenditure surveys. Recent research has advocated for calculating hunger numbers directly from these same surveys. For either … are then used. Using a survey experiment in Tanzania, this study finds great fragility in hunger counts stemming from …

individuals still live after decades of mixed progress. Evidence shows that poverty reduction on its own will not do the job of … eradicating hunger, nor will only increased food production. The region's contribution to high and volatile international food … changing composition of future food demand in the region will depend on the extent to which poverty reduction effectively leads …

developing world, with some countries, and some people, more vulnerable than others. It also threatens to have lasting impacts …

The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better … data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what "poverty" means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more pervasive than … we thought. Yet the data also provide robust evidence of continually declining poverty incidence and depth since the …