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Water, sanitation and agriculture linkages with health and nutrition improvement
Gerber, Nicolas; Braun, Joachim von; Usman, Muhammed Abdella - 2019
In 2010, the United Nations General Assembly recognized access to safe water and sanitation infrastructure a matter of human right. This right is reflected in Sustainable Development Goal 6, whose targets 1 and 2 point to universal access to safe and affordable drinking water and adequate...
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Small-Scale Farming and Food Security : The Enabling Role of Cash Transfers in South Africa's Former Homelands
von Fintel, Dieter - 2016
Cash transfers successfully alleviate poverty in many developing countries. South Africa is a case in point, implementing one of the largest unconditional cash transfer programmes internationally, and with substantial benefits to household well-being along multiple dimensions. Yet, grants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978169
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A Modelling Framework for Addressing the Synergies Between Global Conventions Through Land Use Changes : Carbon Sequestration, Biodiversity Conservation, Prevention of Land Degrada...
Ponce-Hernandez, Raul - 2015
This paper proposed a methodological framework for the assessment of carbon stocks and the development and identification of land use, land use change and land management scenarios, whereby enhancing carbon sequestration synergistically increases biodiversity, the prevention of land degradation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012707873
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Impact of climate smart agriculture on food security: an agent-based analysis
Bazzana, Davide; Foltz, Jeremy D.; Zhang, Ying - 2021
The study proposes an agent-based model to investigate how adoption of climate smart agriculture (CSA) affects food …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012519988
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Impact of Climate Smart Agriculture on Food Security : An Agent-based Analysis
Bazzana, Davide; Foltz, Jeremy; Zhang, Ying - 2021
The study proposes an agent-based model to investigate how adoption of climate smart agriculture (CSA) affects food …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013225782
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Ethiopia - Land, Climate, Energy, Agriculture and Development : A Study in the Sudano-Sahel Initiative for Regional Development, Jobs, and Food Security
Admassie, Assefa; Abebaw, Degnet - 2021
one and half decades. By any measure agriculture is the dominant economic sector in the country accounting for a sizeable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013241030
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Ethiopia - land, energy, climate change, and agricultural development : a study in the Sudano-Sahel Initiative for regional development, jobs, and food security
Assefa Admassie; Abebaw, Degnet - 2021
one and half decades. By any measure agriculture is the dominant economic sector in the country accounting for a sizeable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012421105
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The expansion of modern agriculture and global biodiversity decline : an integrated assessment
Lanz, Bruno; Dietz, Simon; Swanson, Timothy M. - 2017 - This version: July 2017
, and increasingly rich, population are to be met. This requires the further expansion of modern agriculture, but modern … agriculture rests on a small number of highly productive crops and its expansion has led to a significant loss of global … agriculture, with a focus on how the loss of biodiversity affects food production. We employ a quantitative, structurally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011749380
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Contract farming and food security in developing economies : a framework model for spillover impact
Das, Gouranga Gopal; Bhattacharya, Ranajoy - 2024
: agricultural with contract farming, traditional agriculture, and manufacturing, we derive the conditions under which it is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014555835
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Institutionalizing Inequality : The WTO Agreement on Agriculture, Food Security, and Developing Countries
Gonzalez, Carmen G. - 2009
The article examines the food security implications of the WTO Agreement on Agriculture. It places the Agreement in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014050425