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Poverty, hunger and democracy in Africa : potential and limitations of democracy in cementing multiethnic societies

Bigman, David - 2011

The book evaluates alternative policy options for the African countries to overcome the food crisis and the changing structure of world trade to sustain their impressive growth of the early 2000s.These policies must go beyond economic reforms and seek a solution to the entrenched political...

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Food Insecurity, Vulnerability and Human Rights Failure

Guha-Khasnobis, Basudeb (ed.); Acharya, Shabd S. (ed.); … - 2007

This volume discusses the significance of human rights approaches to food and the way it relates to gender considerations, addressing links between hunger and the HIV/AIDS pandemic, agricultural productivity and the environment

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Famine and Finance : Credit and the Great Famine of Ireland

Goodspeed, Tyler Beck - 2017

The book uses archival data to examine how access to micro-finance credit played a role in facilitating adjustment to blight during the Great Famine of Ireland. The author argues that the worst affected districts with a microfinance fund experienced substantially smaller population declines and...

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Health and Well-Being in India : A Quantitative Analysis of Inequality in Outcomes and Opportunities

Borooah, Vani K. - 2018

The theme of this book is health outcomes in India, in particular to outcomes relating to its caste and religious groups and, within these groups, to their women and children. The book’s tenor is analytical and based upon a rigorous examination of recent data from both government and...

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Poverty and Well-Being in East Africa : A Multi-faceted Economic Approach

Heshmati, Almas (ed.) - 2016

Spending mitigate adverse effects of CO2 Emissions from Oil exploration in Africa?. …This volume is a collection of selected studies on poverty and well-being in East Africa. Using a multidimensional … interested in economic development, welfare, and poverty in Africa as well as policy makers and members of NGOs and international …

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Finance for Food : Towards New Agricultural and Rural Finance

Köhn, Doris - 2014

The Big Picture: Global Trends Affecting Agricultural Finance -- Institutional and Process Innovations in Serving Rural Clients -- Dealing With Risks in Agricultural Finance -- Using Modern Technology for High-Quality Services in Rural Areas

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Food Price Volatility and Its Implications for Food Security and Policy

Kalkuhl, Matthias (ed.); Braun, Joachim von (ed.); … - 2016

This book provides fresh insights into concepts, methods and new research findings on the causes of excessive food price volatility. It also discusses the implications for food security and policy responses to mitigate excessive volatility. The approaches applied by the contributors range from...

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Globalisation and the challenges of development in contemporary India

Venkateswar, Sita (ed.); Bandyopadhyay, Sekhar (ed.) - 2016 - 1. edition

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Food Security and Sustainability : Investment and Financing along Agro-Food Chains

Mergos, Geōrgios I. (ed.); Papanastassiou, Marina (ed.) - 2017

This edited volume brings together contributions from experts on a range of food security issues, and examines them through a number of case studies. A Millennium Development goal and important policy concern, food security is experiencing renewed interest due to globalisation, which has led to...

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Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security : Aspects of Euro-Mediteranean Business Cooperation

Mattas, Konstadinos A. (ed.); Baourakis, George (ed.); … - 2018

This book brings together research on cooperative management from the agriculture and food sector. By examining issues from food-policy, trade and environmental perspectives and presenting both methodological and empirical work, it allows readers to develop a deeper understanding of collective...

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