Based on case studies, it is confirmed beyond doubt that the problem of infectious disease of ‘poverty' especially among the majority (accounting for more than 75 percent of rural population) of debt-ridden peasant farmers who are perpetually poverty stricken, has not been tackled with any...

The agricultural productivity levels and variations in agricultural performance have been analysed across districts and regions in the state of Uttar Pradesh with the aim of identifying factors that affect land and labour productivity and in turn, rural poverty. The performance of agriculture in...

It is confirmed based on case studies that the problem of infectious disease of ‘Poverty' among the majority (75 per cent of debt-ridden farmers who are highly productive) has not been tackled with any success due to middlemen's collusive activities which have dwarfed and derailed organic...

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 FAO...

Does predicted global warming imply more hunger in the future of Latin America? Climate projections prepared by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are briefly presented, along with an analysis of existing estimates of their probable impact on agriculture and food...

The principal objective of this paper is to show how relevant is the incentive policy to agricultural investments for food poverty reduction towards agricultural households. The data used for this study are from the 1985-88 CI-LSMS and the 1998 National Statistics Institute's Household Surveys....

Budget deficit, exchange rate fluctuation and high fuel world price provides a pressure on budget capacity to stimulate the Indonesian economy. The government has designed several fiscal policies, including reducing the fuel subsidy. The study objective is to analyse the impact of reducing fuel...

Poverty in Africa is primarily rural concentrated, about 75% of the poor population live in rural areas and draws their livelihood and food from agriculture. The Sub-Saharan African region is home to more than quarter of a billion people living in extreme poverty, with the Eastern and Southern...

The objective of this paper is to examine how agricultural and nonagricultural labor productivities have grown over time and whether the growth pattern affected poverty in low- and middle-income economies in Asia. We first examine whether labor productivities in the agricultural and...