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Determinants of Crop Income in Rural Mozambique, 2002-2005.

Mather, David - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2012

Crop income is the predominant source of income for most rural Mozambican households, accounting for 73% of rural household income on average in 2002, and greater than 80% of the total income of the poorest 40% of rural households. While the Government of Mozambique recognizes the need to...

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Smallholder Commercialization Trends as Affected by Land Constraints in Zambia: What are the Policy Implications?

Hichaambwa, Munguzwe; Jayne, Thomas S. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2012

Though Zambia has considerable agricultural potential, the sector’s contribution to growth and poverty reduction has … has been how it can effectively contribute to poverty reduction and broad-based economic growth. Agricultural …

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The economic value of releasing parasitoid for the control of maize stemborers in East and Southern Africa

Kipkoech, Anderson Kipruto; Schulthess, Fritz; Yabann, … - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009

The braconid larval parasitoid Cotesia flavipes Cameron was introduced from Asia into East and Southern African region starting in 1993 to control the invasive exotic maize stemborer Chilo partellus (Swinhoe) (Lepidoptera: Crambidae). A quasi-experiment was constructed using farmers that applied...

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The impact of land security and input allocation on farm household income

Zhang, Yanjie; Wang, Xiaobing; Bruemmer, Bernhard; Yu, … - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012

China’s rural reforms expose farm households to the risk of administrative land reallocation and adjustment. The possibility of land reallocation gives rise to the problem of tenure insecurity which reduces farm households' incentives to invest in the land and to use the labor forces...

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The Expansion of Food Retail in Developing Countries and Its Effects on the Hunger Index

Wells, Patricia Bryn; Saghaian, Sayed H.; Osborne, William - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2013

This paper presents an empirical analysis of the relationship between the expansion of food retailing in developing countries and hunger index. Our analysis found mixed results between the expansion of food retailing and hunger index for four different countries. These results demonstrate...

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Looking at Pro-Poor Growth from an Agricultural Perspective

Klasen, Stephan; Reimers, Malte - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013

(MDGs) or any subsequent set of goals aiming to reduce poverty worldwide. Related research has developed a multitude of … importance of agriculture for poverty reduction in developing countries. The toolbox is then applied to two comparable household … the income, but also in the education and health dimension of poverty, which was in many cases even pro-poor in the …

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The Determinants of Rural Household Food Security for Landless Households of the Punjab, Pakistan

Bashir, Muhammad Khalid; Schilizzi, Steven; Pandit, Ram - School of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2012

This paper examines the situation of food security for the landless rural households of the Punjab province in Pakistan. Primary data from 576 landless households were collected from 12 districts of the province. About 27% of the sample households were measured to be food insecure. Household’s...

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The Doha Round and Food Security in the Dairy Sector in Cameroon: A Global Simulation Model (GSIM) Approach

Leudjou, Roland R. - In: Estey Centre Journal of International Law and Trade Policy 13 (2012) 1

In the framework of the new round of trade liberalization launched in Doha, paragraph 13 of the Development Declaration states that members will support special and differential treatment to accommodate development, including food security. This article simulates scenarios of multilateral tariff...

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The Doha Round and Food Security in the Dairy Sector in Cameroon: A Global Simulation Model (GSIM) Approach: Technical Annex

Leudjou, Roland R. - In: Estey Centre Journal of International Law and Trade Policy 13 (2012) 1

This document is the technical annex to the full paper â€œThe Doha Round and Food Security in the Dairy Sector in Cameroon: A Global Simulation Model (GSIM) Approachâ€ which is available separately.

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Where Do Urban Households in Zambia Buy their Livestock Products?

Hichaambwa, Munguzwe - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource …

Livestock products and fish form an important component of urban consumers’ diet accounting for about one third of the total monthly budgetary expenditure on food. The budgetary share of livestock products increases with affluence or household income while the opposite is true for fish; 2) The...

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