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ESA Working Paper 11-19
Working paper, 2011
This paper reviews four international datasets and one regional dataset which allow us to consider the magnitude of and trends in government spending on, official development assistance (ODA) to and foreign direct investment (FDI) in...
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A guide book to harvesting soil carbon sequestration benefits
Manual/guide, 2011
Building on FAO policy advice and incorporating lessons from ongoing agricultural carbon finance projects of FAO and other organizations, this document aims to provide an overview of potential mitigation finance opportunities for soil carbon sequestration....
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ESA Working Paper 11-14
Working paper, 2011
The present paper attempts to identify the groups of households that most likely will face positive or negative welfare consequences as a result of food price increases. Using data from household surveys and differentiating urban...
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ESA Working Paper 11-07
Working paper, 2011
This paper reviews rural women’s access to financial services, a key factor of successful rural development strategies. Designing appropriate financial products for women to be able to save, borrow and insure is essential to strengthen...
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Technical report, 2010
This paper examines some of the key technical, institutional, policy and financial responses required to achieve climate-smart agriculture which sustainably increases productivity, resilience (adaptation), reduces/removes Greenhouse Gases (mitigation), and enhances achievement of national food security...
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ESA Working Paper 08-04
Working paper, 2008
This paper suggests a methodology for estimating the effects of higher food prices on global undernourishment. The paper also presents the results of its implementation. The merits and drawbacks of this methodology are also discussed....
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ESA Working Papers 07-07
Working paper, 2007
This paper documents a relationship between non-farm income (primarily earnings and pensions) and agricultural outlays in Bulgaria, using the 2003 Multitopic Household Survey. The outcomes analyzed are expenditures on working capital (variable inputs such as...
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ESA Working Paper 07-05
Working paper, 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. The Bukidnon Panel...
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ESA Working Paper 07-03
Working paper, 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...
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ESA Working Paper 05-04
Working paper, 2005
The paper analyses the impacts of transaction costs on the degree of household market integration using survey data collected from smallholder potato farmers located in the Peruvian Andes. The analysis focuses on the impacts of...
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