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Understanding the dynamics of food insecurity and vulnerability in Himachal Pradesh
10/2007
This paper documents the main findings of the vulnerable profiling work carried out in the State of Himachal Pradesh, India, as a mean to support the planning of food security and livelihoods promoting interventions at the state level. A similar study was undertaken in Orissa, India.
Addressing food insecurity in fragile states – Case studies from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Somalia and Sudan
07/2007
Drawing on case studies from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Somalia and Sudan, this paper focuses on policy, programming and institutional issues related to addressing food insecurity in protracted crises and fragile states, with a focus on areas afflicted by conflicts.
Long-term farming trends – An inquiry using agricultural censuses
07/2007
This paper provides a long-term and global view at current farming trends by analyzing a specially created database of farming characteristics of 17 countries across 43 different agricultural censuses representing the different developing regions of the world.
Long-term rural demographic trends
07/2007
This paper studies rural demographic trends at the global level with an analysis of a specially prepared database of population age/gender/rurality tables from population censuses.
An assessment of the impact of rice tariff policy in Indonesia – A multi-market model approach
07/2007
Rice is of key importance to Indonesia’s national and household level food security. The choice of tariff policy has important implications for consumers and producers with policy makers having to decide between the trade-offs implied for the various stakeholders.
Does migration make rural households more productive? Evidence from Mexico
07/2007
The migration of labor out of rural areas and the flow of remittances from migrants to rural households is an increasingly important feature of less developed countries. This paper explores ways in which migration influences incomes and productivity of land and human capital in rural households over time, using new household survey data from Mexico.
Determinants of investment in Bulgarian family farming
07/2007
https://openknowledge.fao.org/handle/20.500.14283/ai459e
Moving forward, looking back – The impact of migrants’ remittances on assets, consumption, and credit constraints in sending communities in the rural Philippines
06/2007
This paper investigates the impact of migration and remittances on asset holdings, consumption expenditures, and credit constraint status of households in origin communities, using a unique longitudinal data set from the Philippines.
Seasonal migration and agriculture in Viet Nam
04/2007
In developing countries, when markets are incomplete migration can have multiple effects on agricultural production. In this paper, I use instrumental variables techniques to explore the effects of seasonal migration on agricultural production in rural Vietnam during the 1990s.
Non-traditional exports, traditional constraints – The adoption and diffusion of cash crops among smallholders in Guatemala
03/2007
This paper uses a duration analysis based on adoption data spanning over 25 years from six communities in the Central Highlands of Guatemala to explore how household characteristics and external trends play into both the adoption and diffusion processes of non-traditional exports among smallholders.
Rural development and poverty reduction – Is agriculture still the key?
02/2007
This paper examines the relationship between rurality and poverty, and the role the agricultural sector can play in rural development, poverty reduction, and overall development.
Governance and rural public expenditures in Latin America – The impact on rural development
01/2007
In this paper we examine the effects of the composition (between private and public goods) of government expenditures in the rural world, and the effect that corruption has in the political game that determines these allocation decisions.
The role of crop genetic diversity in coping with agricultural production shocks – Insights from eastern Ethiopia
12/2006
Improving agricultural productivity and farm level resilience to agricultural production shocks is a critical component of reducing poverty and improving household food security throughout the developing world, and particularly in Ethiopia which is among the poorest countries in the world.
Sowing the seeds of social relations – The role of social capital in crop diversity
12/2006
This paper explores the relationship between social capital and crop diversity. The study is conducted in an area of Ethiopia where inter-specific diversity is significant and that diversity includes crops that are of important in terms of their genetic value since it is a center of origin or diversity for these crops.
Putting payments for environmental services in the context of economic development
05/2006
Paying for the provision of environmental services is a recent policy innovation that is attracting much attention in both developed and developing countries. The innovation involves a move away from command and control environmental policies, harnessing market forces to obtain more efficient environmental outcomes.
Assessing the impact of massive out-migration on agriculture
05/2006
Over the past several years, rural areas in transition countries have experienced a structural transformation of their agricultural sectors combined with profound demographic changes, primarily due to massive out-migration towards urban areas and abroad.
Abatement and transaction costs of carbon-sink projects involving smallholders
05/2006
Agroforestry projects have the potential to help mitigate global warming by acting as sinks for greenhouse gasses. However, participation in carbon-sink projects may be constrained by high costs.
Measuring vulnerability to food insecurity
05/2006
This paper develops a novel approach to the analysis of vulnerability in the context of food security. The proposed methodology incorporates recent developments in the analysis of risk management.
Assessing the impact of food aid on recipient countries – A survey
05/2006
This paper surveys the economic literature on the impacts of food aid on recipient countries. The paper reviews the conceptual and empirical challenges associated with evaluating the impacts of food aid and surveys the main analytical techniques that are used in such evaluations.
Food aid in response to acute food insecurity
05/2006
This paper reviews the role of food aid in response to humanitarian emergencies. It outlines a set of basic principles for effective food aid interventions, and analyses a number of case studies in humanitarian response.