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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
Following an overview on the fast changing global context of agriculture, and food and nutrition security, this paper … provides a framework for identifying the set of essential international public goods for a well-functioning world agriculture … innovation; responding to and preventing food and nutrition emergencies; and trans-boundary food safety and health related …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319864
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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, to examine the relationship between empowerment, measured using a modification of the Alkire et al. (2013) empowerment index, and household dietary diversity, based on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596386
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Influence of institutional factors on the performance of the agricultural sector in Mozambique
Carrilho, João Z.; Ribeiro, Rui N. - 2020
development of the agricultural sector. We refer to the need to think about the future of agriculture in Mozambique from a long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012424115
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The relative neglect of agriculture in Mozambique
Carrilho, João Z.; Ferreira, Ines A.; Ribeiro, Rui N.; … - 2021
have affected progress in the agriculture sector suggests the need for concerted reorientation in existing strategies … of agriculture in Mozambique within a long-term perspective, focusing on the adoption and stabilization of an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012705333
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A mixed-methods study of Bambara farming in Mtwara, Tanzania
Boulay, Basile - 2017
Economic research tends to focus on a reduced set of crops, leaving a vast array of crops under-researched. However, these 'marginal crops' have typically been farmed for centuries and are better suited for the local environment in which they are grown than crops prioritized within existing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012145153
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Perspectives on Technology, Society and Innovation. Report on the 4S/EASST Joint Conference “Design and Displacement”, Copenhagen, Denmark, October 17–20, 2012
Boavida, Nuno; Fleischer, Torsten; Kuppler, Sophie; … - In: Technikfolgenabschätzung – Theorie und Praxis 21 (2012) 3, pp. 92-95
Association of Studies on Science and Technology-EASST) chose the conference theme “Design and Displacement”. … ways than initially intended (“displaced”), the organizers (the Society for Social Studies on Science-4S and the European …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012143466
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Global governance: the G20 and a Global Green New Deal
Barbier, Edward B. - 2009
In response to the world economic crisis, the international community should promote a mix of policies to sustain global recovery and create jobs through reducing carbon dependency, ecological degradation and poverty. Such a Global Green New Deal (GGND) requires implementation and coordination...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298841
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Global governance: the G20 and a Global Green New Deal
Barbier, Edward B. - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 4 (2010) 2010-2, pp. 1-35
As the world recovers from the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, the international community should promote a mix of policies to sustain this global recovery and create jobs through reducing carbon dependency, ecological degradation and poverty. Such a Global Green New Deal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299831
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Trade and welfare effects of new trade policy instruments
Wolfmayr, Yvonne; Christen, Elisabeth; Mahlkow, Hendrik; … - 2024
Geoeconomic concepts are gaining importance in EU trade policy. In this context new trade policy instruments are designed to protect the internal market against unfair trade practices, coercive actions as well as to ensure sustainable supply chains and the protection of human rights. The study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014530125
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Re-embedding the economy in nature and society: Seven theses on the socio-ecological reorientation of the economy in times of Covid-19 and the climate crisis
Loske, Reinhard - 2020
This paper reflects on the links between the current COVID-19-crisis and the climate and biodiversity crises. It argues that the present pandemic and nonsustainable development on a global scale have similar roots: from ignoring natural boundaries to denying scientific facts, from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012290519