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Revisiting the global food architecture: Lessons from the 2008 food crisis
Christiaensen, Luc - 2009
market functioning and policymaking must be addressed. First, governments must reinvest in agriculture with a focus on public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323525
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Background Paper: Research and Development and Extension Services in Agriculture and Food Security
Wesley, Annie; Faminow, Merle - 2014
and extension to address the numerous challenges along the pathway from agriculture production and distribution to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011432713
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The Transformation of Rural Labour Systems in Colonial and Post-Colonial Northern Nigeria
Kohnert, Dirk - In: Journal of Peasant Studies 13 (1986) 4, pp. 258-271
The study attempts to highlight the interrelation between three central points in the ongoing debate on the political economy of development: viability, surplus, and class-formation. A case study of the development of rural labour systems in Northern Nigeria is meant to provide both a better...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011327901
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Can cities or towns drive African development? Economy-wide analysis for Ethiopia and Uganda
Dorosh, Paul; Thurlow, James - 2012
focuses on agriculture's relative merits without also considering the benefits from urban agglomeration. As a result, African … governments are often provided conflicting recommendations on the importance of rural agriculture or urban industry. We develop …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319945
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Three decades of rural development projects in Asia, Latin America and Africa: Learning from successes and failures
Zoomers, Annelies - 2006
carried out between 1975-2005 in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Making a distinction between the successful projects and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284720
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Women Empowerment and Intra-household Dietary Diversity in Nigeria
Tanankem, Belmondo V.; Efobi, Uchenna R.; Atata, Ngozi S. - 2016
This study used a nationally representative survey from the 2012-2013 World Bank’s General Household Survey for Nigeria …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596386
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Family farming in sub-Saharan Africa: Its contribution to agriculture, food security and rural development
Moyo, Sam - 2016
The persistent agrarian crisis facing sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and the recent food price hikes have provoked greater … is less agreement on the nature of and prospects for family farms in SSA, the scope of their contributions to agriculture …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011786278
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The effects of a private-sector-driven smallholder support programme on productivity, market participation and food and nutrition security: Evidence of a nucleus-outgrower scheme f...
Sakketa, Tekalign Gutu; Herrmann, Raoul; Nkonde, Chewe; … - 2022
overall impact of the AAZ outgrower programme on the uptake of conservation agriculture practices is robust and promising …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013471806
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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
provides a framework for identifying the set of essential international public goods for a well-functioning world agriculture …Following an overview on the fast changing global context of agriculture, and food and nutrition security, this paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319864
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Agriculture and food security in Asia by 2030
Anderson, Kym; Strutt, Anna - 2012
gravity away from the north Atlantic, raising the importance of Asia in world trade but also altering the commodity … security. It does so retrospectively and by projecting a model of the world economy that compares alternative growth strategies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010397264