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Green Revolution : Indian Agricultural Experience - A Paradigm for Eritrea
Rena, Ravinder - 2014
Food problem became more severe after the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, presenting a series challenges to … India's agricultural sector. Even during good harvest years, food imports remain high. A large segment of people were poor …. To mitigate these problems, India adopted farming strategies under the "Green Revolution" in the mid 1960s. The …
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Maintaining Food Security of Local Communities in Underdeveloped Regions Through Agrarian Reform in Napan Village, Indonesian
Kurniati, Nia - 2018
Objective – The objective of this study is to identify the food security characteristics in local communities at Napan Village, Nusa Tenggara Timur Indonesia and to study the implementation of agrarian reform principles covering asset reform and access reform, in achieving food...
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Agriculture Development and Food Security Policy in Eritrea - An Analysis
Rena, Ravinder - 2015
The main economic activity of the people of Eritrea is agriculture: crop production and livestock herding. Agriculture mainly comprises mixed farming and some commercial concessions. Most agriculture is rain-fed. The main rain-fed crops are sorghum, millet and sesame, and the main irrigated...
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Agricultural development promises more growth and less poverty in Africa : modelling the potential impact of implementing the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme...
Diallo, Mariam; Wouterse, Fleur - In: Development policy review 41 (2023) 3, pp. 1-22
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The central position of agriculture within the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Omilola, Babatunde; Robele, Sophia - 2017
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Structural transformation and food security : their mutual interdependence
Timmer, Charles Peter - 2017
A mutual, two-way dependence of structural transformation and food security has bedeviled the development profession for decades, which has often ignored the critical role of agricultural development and food price stability as the underlying foundations to both structural transformation and...
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Mountain agriculture : opportunities for harnessing Zero Hunger in Asia
Li, Xuan (ed.); El Solh, Mahmoud (ed.);  … - FAO - 2019
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An empirical study of smallholder farming and poverty reduction : case of Sierra Leone
Kargbo, Mohamed; Theresia, Mnaranara E.; Almekhlafi, Ebrahim - In: Journal of business and finance 3 (2017) 1, pp. 1-13
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How costly is using livestock as a saving device? : a note on meat prices during food shortages
Zant, Wouter - 2020
We measure if and to what extent livestock sales during food shortages affect the wealth value of livestock. For this purpose we exploit monthly market prices of meat and staple foods in Malawi, for up to 72 locations (towns, villages and markets), for the period from January 1991 to December...
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Foreign aid and sustainable agriculture in Africa
Umbadda, Siddig; Elgizouli, Ismail - 2013
high priority. Both volume and share of aid earmarked for agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa not only remained low, around …
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