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Journal articles, 2000
This paper analyzes yield trends in 30 long-term experiments (LTEs) conducted at 24 sites with intensive rice monoculture or rice-upland crop systems in tropical and subtropical regions of Asia. The objectives of the analysis were...
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Journal articles, 2000
This paper makes several points based on a review of household survey evidence from Africa, Asia and Latin America. (i) In contrast to conventional wisdom, the evidence is very mixed as to the effect of...
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Journal articles, 2000
Using data from a representative 1989 household survey for Italy we estimate random-coefficient earnings frontiers by gender, marital status and location. These estimates are used to calculate discrimination indices. Our results show that fixed coefficients...
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Journal articles, 2000
In this paper, we examine whether the causes and patterns of Mexican rural female migration differ significantly from rural male migration. A number of hypotheses are discussed to explain why female migration may differ from...
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Manual/guide, 2000
The World Food Summit (Rome, November 1996) recognized the urgency of improving the information available to governments, their international partners and all members of civil society in every country, in order to guide their actions...
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Lessons from the past 50 years
Corporate publications, 2000
The State of Food and Agriculture 2000 reports only very modest growth in world agricultural production in 1998, and the estimates for 1999 do not appear to indicate any improvement. Particularly for the developing countries,...
Food insecurity – when people live with hunger and fear starvation
Corporate publications, 2000
The state of food insecurity in the world (SOFI) was created to track progress towards ending this profound obstacle to human rights, quality of life and dignity. It was spurred by the 1996 World Food...
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