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Improving the productivity of smallholder farms in Sub-Saharan Africa offers the best chance to reduce poverty among this generation of rural poor, by building on the limited resources farming households already possess. It is also the best and shortest path to meet rising food needs. Using...
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Ghana's economic growth picked up in the early 2000s and has been exceptionally strong over the past few years, with price booms of its main commodity exports, gold and cocoa, and the initiation of commercial oil production in 2011. This paper examines recent econometric evidence on Ghana's...
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participation by individuals in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria using primary (micro) data. While grievance appears to be …
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This paper analyzes the impact of Covid-19 and uncooperative trade policies on world food markets. It quantifies the initial shock due to the pandemic under the assumption that products that are more labor intensive in production are more affected through workers' morbidity and containment...
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Through a review of the literature, this paper examines the links of food and agriculture with nutrition in South Asia, a region characterized by a high level of malnutrition. The review finds that the level and stability of food prices play a critical part in food consumption, with rising...
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-farm enterprises being more common in Nigeria and Tanzania. The population weighted cross-country gender difference in off … national panel household survey data from Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda; provides empirical evidence on …-farm employment and continued employment; and conducts the analysis by gender and rural/urban location. A significant share of the …
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paper develops a theoretical model that decomposes the contribution of various market imperfections to the gender …
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in costs and benefits that accrue to people depending, for instance, on their gender, age, ethnicity, and education. The … population, in terms of gender and age, and active participation by women and young adults in community groups alleviate the …
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the second generation -- women's daughters and sons. Additionally, gender gaps in property ownership induce allocative … over property. Gender gaps are smaller if joint ownership is taken into consideration, but still materially disadvantage … paper is an important step toward a better understanding of gender gaps in property ownership in Africa and outlines an …
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Strengthening women's ownership, control, and use of land, livestock, and savings assets matters for poverty and shared prosperity, as unequal property rights can lead to intrahousehold inequality in wealth; allocative inefficiencies, which are costly in lost economic output and productivity...
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