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can guide interventions in improving the sector’s productivity. Agriculture is at the centre of rural poverty reduction in …
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This paper was submitted on the first national congress of Sustainable Agriculture: Today and future life towards climate change, 25-26 August 2011,UNA Nicaragua.
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Empirical evidence shows that non-farm income diversification is associated with higher welfare among farm households. However, most studies have ignored market barriers and farm income risk in explaining income diversification behaviour. This study develops an analytical framework that includes...
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Since late 2010 and continuing into 2011, price volatility, in relation to basic agricultural commodities, has occupied center stage on the agendas of decision makers. An additional concern has been uncertainty about a new global economic crisis in the wake of the macroeconomic difficulties...
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This paper explores the potential for the National Farm to School Program to effectively engage with Georgia’s public schools in order to reduce local food insecurity and improve the quality of nutrition provided to students. A survey was conducted with the specific goals of assessing: first,...
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Includes: JAAE Manuscript Submission Guidelines; Back Cover; Southern Agricultural Economics Association Executive Committee; Membership and Subscription Information
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terms of caloric intake is alarmingly high with low rates of income poverty. Based on the 2005/06 Uganda National Household …: halving extreme poverty and hunger by 2015. While Uganda is on track to halve extreme poverty, it is less likely to halve … extreme hunger by 2015. Yet the results suggest that food insecurity and income poverty are closely linked. Similarly, food …
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