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A Cross-Country Analysis of Household Responses to Adult Mortality in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa: Implications For HIV/AIDS Mitigation And Rural Development Policies.

Mather, David; Donovan, Cynthia; Jayne, Thomas S.; … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2004

This paper summarizes and synthesizes across the results of a set of country studies on the effects of prime-age adult mortality on rural households in Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, and Zambia. Each study is based on large representative rural household surveys. These findings have...

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Unpacking the Meaning of “Market Access”

Chamberlin, Jordan; Jayne, Thomas S. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2011

Improving farmers’ access to markets is widely recognized as a major development challenge. A review of the literature suggests that indicators of market access may bear little relationship to the specific processes of interest and hence provide misguided evidence of the impacts of improved...

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The Value of Accurate Crop Production Forecasts.

Jayne, Thomas S.; Rashid, Shahidur - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2010

Crop production forecasts are widely recognized as an important input into food balance sheets and for anticipating production shortfalls. However, the role of accurate crop production forecasting systems in mitigating food price instability and transitory food insecurity is often...

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Unscrambling Africa: Regional Requirements for Achieving Food Security

Haggblade, Steven - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2010

Africa has inherited highly arbitrary political borders that vastly complicate current efforts to accelerate … agricultural growth and reduce hunger. Because Africa’s inherited political borders arbitrarily partition agro-ecological zones and … agricultural trade and dampening incentives for farmers and agribusinesses to invest in Africa’s many regional breadbasket zones …

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Lessons Learned from 25 Years of Food Security Research, Capacity-Building, and Outreach.

Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2009

, the greatest number of the food insecure lives in South Asia, while Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has the highest proportion of … research and outreach, primarily in Africa, and their value to the U.S. Global Food Security Initiative in addressing the major …

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Medição do Impacto dos Bens Públicos e Privados sobre os Rendimentos Familiares Provenientes de Culturas em Moçambique Rural, 2002-2005

Mather, David; Donovan, Cynthia; Boughton, Duncan - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2009

This brief summarizes detailed analysis of the determinants of household crop income in rural Mozambique from 2002 to 2005. Increased crop income is associated with increases in household land area, use of animal traction, crop diversification into tobacco or cotton, access to market price...

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Measuring the Impact of Public and Private Assets on Household Crop Income in Rural Mozambique, 2002-2005

Mather, David; Donovan, Cynthia; Boughton, Duncan - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2009

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Patterns and Trends in Food Staples Markets in Eastern and Southern Africa: Toward the Identification of Priority Investments and Strategies for Developing Markets and Promoting Sm...

Jayne, Thomas S.; Mason, Nicole M.; Myers, Robert J.; … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2010

on smallholder crop marketing behavior and urban consumption patterns in Eastern and Southern Africa, and their …

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Trends in Agricultural and Rural Development Indicators in Zambia.

Jayne, Thomas S.; Govereh, Jones; Chilonda, Pius; … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2007

Effective agricultural and food security policies in Africa need to be based on a solid empirical foundation. In Zambia … Zambia, the likely factors driving these trends, and the future implications for agricultural policy and investment rate …

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A Case Study of Regulation in Zambia’s Cotton Sector.

Tschirley, David L.; Kabwe, Stephen - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2010

country dramatically improved the quality of its lint, becoming the outstanding performer in Sub-Saharan Africa in this regard …

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