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Hunger Amidst Plenty : World Trends in Undernourishment and Malnutrition

Maletta, Hector E. - 2020

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012856476

Maletta, Hector E. - 2018

Hunger affects 800 million people, 11% of humankind. However, it is diminishing in absolute numbers and as a percentage of population as a result of slower population growth, economic development, and increasing farm productivity. Current food output is more than enough to feed all humankind and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012935110

Whither the Amazon Forest? A Cold Look at the Impacts of Deforestation and Climate Change

Maletta, Hector E. - 2017

The future of the Amazon rainforest is a matter of much concern worldwide. On the one hand, climate change has been said to threaten the forest via possibly increased drought, prompting fires and fragmentation, accelerated by man-made deforestation. On the other hand, the Amazon forest itself is...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014173605

Cereal Self-Sufficiency in Afghanistan Farms

Maletta, Hector E. - 2013

Afghan farmers, based on extensive survey work carried out in 2003 across the whole country. Year after year, even in a very … good agricultural year, like 2003, most Afghan farmers are not self-sufficient in their staple cereal crops. During the … productivity and rehabilitation of irrigation infrastructure, most farmers cannot achieve self-sufficiency with their existing …

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Women at Work : Gender, Wealth, Wages and Employment in Rural Afghanistan, 2002-2003

Maletta, Hector E. - 2004

Based on extensive survey work throughout the country carried out in 2002 and 2003, the paper presents a survey of female labour activity and remuneration in rural Afghanistan. In more than half the groups surveyed, women contribute to income-generating activities. The percentage is larger, but...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014070271

Bread of the Future : Climate Change, Agriculture and Food in Latin America (El Pan Del Futuro: Cambio Climático, Agricultura Y Alimentación En América Latina)

Maletta, Hector E. - 2014

probable implications for Andean peasants and other subsistence farmers in the region, as well as conceptual and methodological …

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Trends in World Agricultural and Food Trade

Maletta, Hector E. - 2020

International commerce in agricultural and food products is an important component of food security and, for many developing countries, an essential part of their economic development. Agricultural products (which may be food or non-food) are imported or exported by most countries. Certain views...

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Wages of War, Wages of Peace : Food Prices and Unskilled Labour Pay in Afghanistan, 1996-2002

Maletta, Hector E. - 2003

This paper contains the main results of a FAO study on staple food prices and real wages in Afghanistan during the period 1996-2002, based on information systematically collected weekly by the World Food Programme in all major cities (Kabul, Kandahar, Jalalabad, Herat, Mazar-e-Sharif and...

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Tendencias y Perspectivas de la Agricultura Familiar en América Latina (Trends and Prospects of Family Farming in Latin America)

Maletta, Hector E. - 2012

encouraging for those who see family farming as the road to rural prosperity: most family farmers in the region are poor … subsistence farmers; their numbers are not increasing and mostly dwindling; their share of agricultural output is decreasing …

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International Food Price Volatility : Transmission to Domestic Prices and Policy Response in Bolivia and Peru

Maletta, Hector E. - 2013

World food prices surged strongly in recent years, with two waves of rising prices in 2007-08 and 2010-11. For food-importing countries affected at the same time by significant levels of undernourishment and malnutrition, sudden rises in the international price of food may have a strong impact...

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