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Mobile money, market transactions, and household income in rural Kenya
Kikulwe, Enoch M.; Fischer, Elisabeth; Qaim, Matin - Institut für Agrarökonomie, Georg-August-Universität … - 2013
Mobile phone based money services have spread rapidly in many developing countries. We analyze micro level impacts using panel data from smallholder farmers in Kenya. Mobile money use has a large positive net impact on household income. One important pathway is through remittances, which...
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The Health Effects of Women Empowerment: Recent Evidence from Northern Ghana
Ross, Kara L.; Zereyesus, Yacob A.; Shanoyan, Aleksan; … - In: International Food and Agribusiness Management Review 18 (2015) 1
The IFAMR is published quarterly by the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association (IFAMA). www.ifama.org
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Beyond the field : the impact of farmer field schools on food security and poverty alleviation
Larsen, Anna Folke; Lilleør, Helene Bie - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 64 (2014), pp. 843-859
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Social protection, food security and nutrition in six African countries
Devereux, Stephen; Nzabamwita, Jonas - 2018
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The Value of Accurate Crop Production Forecasts.
Jayne, Thomas S.; Rashid, Shahidur - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2010
Crop production forecasts are widely recognized as an important input into food balance sheets and for anticipating production shortfalls. However, the role of accurate crop production forecasting systems in mitigating food price instability and transitory food insecurity is often...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008741279
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Unscrambling Africa: Regional Requirements for Achieving Food Security
Haggblade, Steven - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2010
Africa has inherited highly arbitrary political borders that vastly complicate current efforts to accelerate agricultural growth and reduce hunger. Because Africa’s inherited political borders arbitrarily partition agro-ecological zones and natural market sheds, current country borders serve...
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Improving Food Security in Africa: Highlights of 25 Years of Research, Capacity-Building, and Outreach.
Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2009
Decades of research have led to substantially improved understanding of the nature of food insecurity. A combination of economic growth and targeted programs resulted in a steady fall (until the food crisis of 2007/08) in the percentage of the world’s population suffering from undernutrition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008504231
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Staple Food Trade in the COMESA Region: The Need for a Regional Approach to Stimulate Agricultural Growth and Enhance Food Security
Nijhoff, Jan J. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2009
COMMON MARKET FOR EASTERN AND SOUTHERN AFRICA Twenty Fourth Meeting of the Trade and Customs Committee Nairobi, Kenya 2-4 November, 2009
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Variation in Staple Food Prices in Eastern and Southern Africa: A Synthesis
Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2010
The global food crisis of 2007-08 has focused attention on food prices, pushing the topic to the top of the agenda of international organizations. For policymakers in sub-Saharan Africa, however, food prices have been an issue of economic importance and political sensitivity for decades. Of...
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Trends in Agricultural and Rural Development Indicators in Zambia.
Jayne, Thomas S.; Govereh, Jones; Chilonda, Pius; … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2007
, it is widely perceived that poverty rates are increasing, agricultural growth is stagnant, and real food prices are … poverty rates have declined substantially in rural Zambia since the early 1990s, although they are still unacceptably high … key crops. This paper examines the relationship between trends in agricultural sector performance and rural poverty in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008530541