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Can Africa Replicate Asia's Green Revolution in Rice?
Larson, Donald F. - 2017
in Africa are well suited for rice and are encouraged by the field tests of new rice varieties. So is Africa poised for … productivity, incomes, and poverty, and compares current conditions in Africa with the conditions that prevailed in Asia as its … rice revolution got under way. An important conclusion is that, to a degree, a rice revolution has already begun in Africa …
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On the Central Role of Small Farms in African Rural Development Strategies
Larson, Donald F. - 2017
Improving the productivity of smallholder farms in Sub-Saharan Africa offers the best chance to reduce poverty among …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968749
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Food Prices, Access to Markets and Child Undernutrition in Ethiopia
Brenton, Paul - 2019
This paper looks at how changing food prices affect child undernutrition in Ethiopia. It derives height for age (stunting) and weight for height (wasting) as indicators of child undernutrition from the two most recent years of the Livings Standards Measurement Survey and utilizes market prices...
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Long-Term Impacts of an Unanticipated Risk Event : The 2007/08 Food Price Crisis and Child Growth in Indonesia
Yamauchi, Futoshi - 2017
Unanticipated spikes in food prices can increase malnutrition among the poor, with lasting consequences; however …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012969546
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Small Area Estimation of Child Malnutrition in Ethiopian Woredas
Sohnesen, Thomas Pave - 2017
Reducing child undernutrition is a key social policy objective of the Ethiopian government. Despite substantial reduction over the past decade and a half, child undernutrition is still high. With 48 percent of children stunted, underweight, or wasted, undernutrition remains an important child...
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The Challenge of Measuring Hunger
De Weerdt, Joachim - 2017
There is widespread interest in the number of hungry people in the world and trends in hunger. Current global counts rely on combining each country's total food balance with information on distribution patterns from household consumption expenditure surveys. Recent research has advocated for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973629
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Feeding Five Billion Asians : A Socioeconomic Perspective
Cuesta, Jose - 2017
This paper reviews the prospects for long-term food security in Asia, where a significant number of malnourished 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...
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Improving Child Nutrition Outcomes in India : Can the Integrated Child Development Services Be More Effective?
Das Gupta, Monica - 2017
Levels of child malnutrition in India fell only slowly during the 1990s, despite significant economic growth and large …. The states with the greatest need for the program - the poor northern states with high levels of child malnutrition and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012966153
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The Possibility of a Rice Green Revolution in Large-Scale Irrigation Schemes in Sub-Saharan Africa
Nakano, Yuko - 2017
This paper investigates the potential of and constraints to a rice Green Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa's large … between fertilizer and irrigation. Meanwhile, in the schemes located in four countries in West Africa's Sahel region, where …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976166
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The Socioeconomics of Fish Consumption and Child Health in Bangladesh
Dasgupta, Susmita - 2019
Child malnutrition in Bangladesh exceeds WHO's threshold for public health emergencies. Using more than 36,000 records …
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