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Food System Resilience and Sustainability in Cambodia

Messina, Joseph; Suepa, Tanita; Snapp, Sieglinde; … - In: International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research (IJAGR) 8 (2017) 3, pp. 53-75

Cambodia is witnessing a “Goldilocks moment” in demographic change concurrent with shifts in land use, hydrology, and climate. These trends interact and affect food production, food costs, and food security. Drivers of these trends are typically examined separately with interacting factors...

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Factors influencing the choice of property portfolio diversification evaluation techniques in Nigeria

Olaleye, A.; Aluko, B.T.; Ajayi, C.A. - In: Journal of Property Investment & Finance 25 (2007) 1, pp. 23-42

) techniques in property portfolio diversification evaluation in the Nigeria property market. This is necessitated by the need to … look at the ways by which the property portfolio diversification evaluation practice in the market could be made to improve … data and the small size of many of the investors' portfolios in Nigeria encouraged the use of implicit analysis in their …

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Agricultural risks and risk management in the current context of Chinese economy

Holly Wang, H. - In: Agricultural Finance Review 73 (2013) 2, pp. 245-254

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a big picture of the current context of Chinese economy, the government policies on agriculture, and the role of agricultural risks and risk management against this background. Design/methodology/approach – The new Chinese economic challenges...

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Evaluating grain producers' production financing alternatives: evidence from South Africa

Levina Middelberg, Susanna - In: Agricultural Finance Review 73 (2013) 2, pp. 272-289

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify, present and compare agricultural production financing alternatives available to grain producers in South Africa. From the South African perspective, agricultural land cannot always be utilised as collateral and therefore alternative financing...

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Enhancing food security with Islamic microfinance: insights from some recent experiments

Obaidullah, Mohammed - In: Agricultural Finance Review 75 (2015) 2, pp. 142-168

Purpose – Islamic microfinance institutions (IsMFIs) have used diverse models and tools, as they seek to provide financial and non-financial support to the farming communities. A majortity of IsMFIs focus on provision of micro-credit to farmers alone as a means to enhance food security,...

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Does access to credit improve household welfare? Evidence from Ethiopia using endogenous regime switching regression

Bocher, Temesgen Fitamo; Alemu, Bamlaku Alamirew; … - In: African Journal of Economic and Management Studies 8 (2017) 1, pp. 51-65

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate how credit access affects the welfare of households and sheds light on how household characteristics influence the decision to take credit and the efficiency in credit use. Design/methodology/approach This study uses data from the fourth round...

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A typology of food security in developing countries

Yu, Bingxin; You, Lingzhi - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 5 (2013) 1, pp. 118-153

Purpose – The recent high food price and volatility, as well as economic recession, have reversed the last decade's progress in reducing hunger and poverty. This aim of this paper is to conduct a factor and sequential typology analysis to identify groups of countries categorized according to...

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Food security and nutrition in an urbanizing world : A synthesis of the 2017 Global Food Policy Report

Fan, Shenggen; Cho, Emily EunYoung; Rue, Christopher - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 9 (2017) 2, pp. 162-168

Purpose The paper is a synthesis of the 2017 Global Food Policy Report, and the purpose of this paper is to put into perspective the major food policy issues, developments, and decisions of 2016 and highlights challenges and opportunities for 2017. Design/methodology/approach The paper presents...

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Achieving food and nutrition security under rapid transformation in China and India : A synthesis

Fan, Shenggen; Rue, Christopher - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 7 (2015) 4, pp. 530-540

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to set the stage for the proceeding articles with background of the impressive yet incomplete progress made in eliminating hunger and malnutrition in China and India. Design/methodology/approach – The paper provides background of the progress and...

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Linkages between poverty, food security and undernutrition: evidence from China and India

de Brauw, Alan; Suryanarayana, MH - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 7 (2015) 4, pp. 655-667

Purpose – China and India are two of the fastest growing economies in the world, and poverty reduction has been substantial in both countries through the past few decades. Yet they have very different profiles in terms of food security and undernutrition – while at the micro-level China has...

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