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US policy contributions to agricultural commodity price fluctuations, 2006 - 12
Rausser, Gordon C.; De Gorter, Harry - 2013
Since 2006, global prices and price volatility for foodgrain commodities have spiked frequently and dramatically. Such spikes have had the heaviest economic and social impact on developing nations, where agriculture accounts for a sizable portion of economic activity. We demonstrate how US...
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Dealing with the 2007/08 global food price crisis: The political economy of food price policy in Malawi
Chirwa, Ephraim; Chinsinga, Blessings - 2013
The paper examines the underlying political economy motivations of the government's policy responses to food price increases in 2007/08 focusing particularly on maize as the main staple crop. The main government policy responses to the food price spikes in 2007/08 were price control, bans on...
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International co-operation for agricultural development and food and nutrition security: New institutional arrangements for related public goods
von Braun, Joachim - 2013
Following an overview on the fast changing global context of agriculture, and food and nutrition security, this paper provides a framework for identifying the set of essential international public goods for a well-functioning world agriculture and food system: natural resource management related...
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Helping poor farmers to help themselves: Evidence from a group-based aid project in Mozambique
Nyyssölä, Milla; Pirttilä, Jukka; Sandström, Susanna - 2012
This paper evaluates the impact of an integrated rural development programme on farming techniques and food security in the Gaza area of rural Mozambique. We examine the impact of a group-based approach, in a country with few impact evaluations of technology adoption in farming. Using...
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Aid and environment in Burkina Faso
Bambio, Yiriyibin - 2013
The main objective of the paper is to determine the actual aid flows that have an environmental focus in Burkina Faso. The environment literature highlights important environment issues in air, land and water, including deforestation, desertification, irreversible negative effects on...
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Burkina Faso: Shipping around the Malthusian trap
Grimm, Michael; Wetta, Claude; Nikiema, Aude - 2014
Burkina Faso has experienced quite significant aggregate growth over the past two decades, but that growth has not been transformed into poverty reduction. The key obstacles preventing large-scale escape from poverty are very high population growth combined with the absence of major...
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Impact of school feeding programmes on educational outcomes: Evidence from dry cereals in schools in Burkina Faso
Nikiema, Pouirkèta Rita - 2017
Food for Education (FFE) programmes have been implemented in developing countries since the 1960s. This paper examines the impact of the Catholic Relief Services (CRS) school feeding programme on pupils' attendance and girls' enrolment rate within primary schools in northern Burkina Faso. Using...
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Land acquisition for industrialization and compensation of displaced farmers
Ghatak, Maitreesh; Mookherjee, Dilip - 2011
This paper addresses the question of how farmers displaced by acquisition of agricultural land for the purpose of industrialization ought to be compensated. Prior to acquisition, the farmers are leasing in land from a landlord, either a private owner or a local government. There are three sets...
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Residual capacity and the political economy of pandemic response in Ghana
Asante, Kofi Takyi - 2022
, Ghana was able to surmount the limitations of its weak and underresourced public health system by leveraging 'residual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013364553
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Humanity over economy: Biopolitical responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana
McKeown, James - 2022
and epidemiology. The research assesses Ghana's effectiveness in governing the COVID-19 pandemic contrary to apocalyptic … predictions. This paper critiques Ghana's responses to the COVID-19 pandemic through the lens of Foucault's biopolitics. The main … result of this study showed that Ghana survived the pandemic because of effective policies, not providence. The study also …
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