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This report presents an assessment of Zimbabwe's agriculture sector disaster risk and management capacity. The findings … indicate that Zimbabwe is highly exposed to agricultural risks and has limited capacity to manage risk at various levels. The … disasters occur, the economy absorbs the shocks, without benefiting from any instruments that transfer the risk to markets and …
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experiences inform this paper's case for a gender-based approach to Agriculture Risk Management (ARM) and help to illustrate a …The objective of this paper is to develop an approach for integrating a gender dimension into Agricultural Sector Risk … Assessments (ASRAs). The focus is on the approach because both agricultural risk and gender issues are contextual, thus the …
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, and Uganda as case studies to explore the potential for growth in agriculture, manufacturing, and tourism in these … intensive manufactures could contribute a fraction of aggregate growth, it is agriculture, agribusiness, and services that will … contribute the lion's share because of an unprecedented convergence of technologies. Industrialized agriculture and agri …
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primary agriculture than in the rest of the economy of developing countries, and earnings of unskilled workers more than of … (given that farm incomes are well below non-farm incomes in most developing countries and that agriculture there is intensive …
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Through a review of the literature, this paper examines the links of food and agriculture with nutrition in South Asia …
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Enabling the Business of Agriculture 2019 presents indicators that measure the laws, regulations and bureaucratic …
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risk. At the same time, land use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF), and agriculture sector account for approximately … country. Zambia's agriculture sector faces challenges and is likely to grow more vulnerable as a result of climate change and … change concerns into its agriculture policy agenda. Under its Zambia climate-smart agriculture (CSA) strategy framework, the …
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more inclusive of all citizens. The agriculture sector, one of the five jewels in the Bhutanese economy, can play a key … goals of the Royal Government of Bhutan (RGoB). The government has set targets in a number of policy areas where agriculture …
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The government of Uganda (GoU) regards agriculture as a key economic sector to support Uganda's vision 2040 and the … transition to middle-income status. It recognizes that public spending on agriculture has a pivotal role in equipping the sector … population, and ultimately reduce poverty. To improve the quality and effectiveness of public expenditures in agriculture, Uganda …
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This document provides an investment plan for climate-smart agriculture (CSA) in Mali, developed with support of the … AAA Initiative and the World Bank, and technical assistanceof the International Center for Tropical Agriculture, the World … Agroforestry Centre and the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture, Climate Change and Food Security (CCAFS). It identifies specific …
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