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Assessing the Cost of Supplying Water for Agriculture : The Food Supply Cost Curve

Roson, Roberto - 2017

As part of a “Regional Initiative on Water Scarcity in the NENA Region”, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization …

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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...

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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 …

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Strategies for feeding the world more sustainably with organic agriculture

Antohe, Radu Gheorghe; Suvorov, Nicolae - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : realities and …, (pp. 296-302). 2021

proposed as a promising approach. A better understanding of the role that organic agriculture could play in the sustainable … agriculture. It needs more land than conventional agriculture but can drastically reduce the use of nitrogen and plant protection …

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Local Food, Agriculture, and Tourism in the Dominican Republic

Meyer, Carrie A. - 2020

The paper examines local food and food production in the Dominican Republic and how local agriculture intersects with … consumption using data from the Food and Agriculture Organization since 1961. The paper is historical as well as empirical. It … also traces the struggle, over the last 150 years, of forces that pushed toward export agriculture and others that pushed …

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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 …

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Emerging opportunities in the West African food economy

Allen, Thomas; Heinrigs, Philipp - 2016

Driven by urbanisation and income growth, the West African food economy has radically changed over the past 60 years. The food economy, including all activities involved in producing food, from production to processing, transport and distribution totalled USD 178 billion in 2010, equal to 36% of...

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West African food systems and changing consumer demands

Staatz, John M.; Hollinger, Frank - 2016

Fueled by a burgeoning population, urbanisation and income growth, West African food demand is rapidly transforming, with striking increases in total quantities demanded, growing preference for convenience, diversification of diets towards more perishable products, and an increased concern for...

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An evidence-based approach to ending rural hunger

Kharas, Homi Jamshed; McArthur, John W.; Braun, Joachim von - 2017

Progress toward food and nutrition security (FNS) needs to be sharply accelerated in order to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal for ending hunger and malnutrition, especially in rural areas. The G20 should target interventions and investment opportunities to maximize impact on people and...

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Bio-economy and the sustainability of the agriculture and food system : opportunities and policy challenges

Diakosavvas, Dimitris; Frezal, Clara - 2019

The bio-economy is gaining increasing prominence in the policy debate, with several countries developing bio-economy strategies to decouple economic growth from dependence on fossil fuel, as well a pathway to supporting some of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and commitments under...

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