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Population and Sustainability: Understanding Population, Environment, and Development Linkages

Clay, Daniel C.; Reardon, Thomas - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 1998

The triple challenge of rapid population growth, declining agricultural productivity, and natural resource degradation are not isolated from one another; they are intimately related. However, strategic planning and development programming tend to focus on individual sectors such as the...

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Household Food Security in a Subsistence Economy: Application of Translog Cost Function to Cross-sectional data in Vihiga District, Kenya

Nyangweso, P.M.; Odhiambo, Mark O.; Odunga; Serem, A.K - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE - 2008

improve household food production in the district. Unfavorable poverty indicators in the district only make matters worse …. About 57.6 percent of the population and more than 50 percent of households live below absolute poverty line while 57 … percent of the population and households live below food poverty line (GOK, 2005). Poor welfare indicators for Vihiga district …

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Gender, Food Security and Livelihoods: The Case of Plan Ghana And Sissala

Bediako, J.A.; Debrah, Kofi - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE - 2008

The study was used by Plan International to formulate a common Nutrition Action Plan for its food and nutrition security interventions in developing countries. The aim was to get insight into the food and nutrition security as well as livelihoods status at the household and community level of...

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Implications of land and water degradation on food security

Jinendradasa, Sithara S. - International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

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An ecosystem services approach to water and food security. [Synthesis report].

Chiramba, T.; Khaka, E. - International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

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Revitalizing Asia's irrigation: to sustainably meet tomorrow's food needs

Mukherji, Aditi; Facon, Thierry; Burke, Jacob J.; de … - International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

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National Conference on Water, Food Security and Climate Change in Sri Lanka, Volume 2: Proceedings of the Water Quality, Environment and Climate Change, BMICH, Colombo June 9-11, 2...

Jinapala, Kiribandage - International Water Management Institute (IWMI) - 2010

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National Conference on Irrigation for Food Security Voluume 1; Proceedings on Water, Food Security and Climate Change in Sri Lanka, EMICH, Colombo, June 9-11, 2009

Godaliyadda, G.G.A.; Jinapala, Kiribandage - International Water Management Institute (IWMI) - 2010

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Economic Consequences of Pollinator Declines: A Synthesis

Bauer, Dana Marie; Sue Wing, Ian - In: Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 39 (2010) 3

This paper surveys the literature on pollinator declines and related concerns regarding global food security. Methods for valuing the economic risks associated with pollinator declines are also reviewed. A computable general equilibrium (CGE) approach is introduced to assess the effects of a...

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The Economics of Water Project Capacities and Conservation Technologies

Xie, Yang; Zilberman, David - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014

This paper builds a model determining optimal capacities of diversion dams or water transfer projects. The model incorporates stochastic inflows to the dams and the role of the dam capacity in reducing overflows, and gives a closed-form expression of the marginal benefit of capacities....

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