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Risk Aversion, Crop Diversification, and Food Security
Lim, Sunghun - 2022
This paper investigates the relationship between risk aversion, crop diversification, and food security. In poor … effective policies that promote crop diversification among poor smallholder farmers to reduce food insecurity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014242034
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Evaluating nutrition and health impacts of agricultural innovations
Qaim, Matin - 2014
details of these agriculture-nutrition-health linkages are not yet well understood. While there is a broad literature on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010430772
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Agricultural extension and technology adoption for food security : evidence from Uganda
Pan, Yao; Smith, Stephen C.; Sulaiman, Munshi - 2015
This paper evaluates causal impacts of a large-scale agricultural extension program for smallholder women farmers on food security in Uganda through a regression discontinuity design that exploits an arbitrary distance-to-branch threshold for village program eligibility. We find eligible farmers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307901
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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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Why Do Farmers Behave as They Do? Understanding Compliance with Rural, Agricultural and Food Attribute Standards
Herzfeld, Thomas - 2015
not only relevant with, respect to agriculture's traditional activity (i.e. food production), but is also highly relevant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013037737
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The forgotten agriculture-nutrition link : estimating the energy requirements of different farming technologies in rural Zambia
Daum, Thomas; Capezzone, Filippo; Birner, Regina - 2019
, agriculture-nutrition linkages have received a lot of attention in recent years. Researchers have analysed the link between the … third agriculture-nutrition link has been largely neglected in recent years: the impact of how food is produced on human … outcomes substantially and that this neglected agriculture-nutrition linkage deserves more scientific and political attention …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012058287
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Moving Toward Food Democracy : Better Food, New Farmers, and the Myth of Feeding the World
Hamilton, Neil D. - 2015
Hamilton’s essay begins with a reflection on food and society. He writes of the effect of modernization and industry on the relationship America has with food. What once was a centerpiece of our economic independence, family life, and health is now merely an afterthought. Quality and trust in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014176061
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Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security in Latin America
Maletta, Hector E.; Maletta, Emiliano - 2014
climate change on agriculture are discussed based on two main approaches: Ricardian Models and Integrated Assessment Models … discusses several policy options to minimize negative impacts (and enhance positive impacts) of climate change on agriculture …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014194528
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Subsistence production, markets, and dietary diversity in the Kenyan small farm sector
Muthini, Davis; Nzuma, Jonathan Makau; Qaim, Matin - 2018
Undernutrition and low dietary quality remain widespread problems especially among smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa. Hence, the question as to how smallholder systems can be made more nutrition-sensitive is of particular relevance for research and policy. Recent studies analysed whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011928391
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Can agriculture be a lever for the diversification of the Congo Brazzaville economy?
Nzololo, Moyo - In: Asian African journal of economics and econometrics 17 (2017) 2, pp. 239-252
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873955