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Development for Sustainable Agriculture : The Brazilian Cerrado

Hosono, Akio (ed.); Rocha, Carlos Magno Campos da (ed.); … - 2016

Since the mid-1970s, the tropical savanna, known as Cerrado, has been transformed into one of the world's largest grain-growing regions. This book explores how and by what Brazil achieved inclusive and sustainable growth in the Cerrado.

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International Entrepreneurship : Innovative Solutions for a Fragile Planet

Samli, A. Coskun - 2009

, as billions of people continue to slip deeper into poverty. While many theories, policies, and practices have been …

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Payment for Environmental Services in Agricultural Landscapes : Economic Policies and Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries

Zilberman, David; Lipper, Leslie; Sakuyama, Takumi; … - 2009

institutional incentives in order to meet both environmental and poverty alleviation objectives. However, their optimal design …

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Marine Resource Conservation and Poverty Reduction Strategies in Tanzania

Sesabo, Jennifer Kasanda (contributor) - 2007

villages to have conservation-development policies/programs that lead to poverty reduction. …

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

Heshmati, Almas (ed.) - 2016

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Child poverty and household poverty in Cameroon: A multidimensional approach … determinants of poverty in Nigeria: Evidence from panel survey -- Chapter 6: The Impact of international remittances on expenditure … patterns of urban households in Ethiopia -- Chapter 7: Determinants of consumption expenditures and poverty dynamics in urban …

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

Mergos, George (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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Economic Growth and Development in Ethiopia

Heshmati, Almas (ed.); Yoon, Haeyeon (ed.) - 2018

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