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Climate change, agriculture, and food security in Tanzania

Arndt, Channing; Farmer, Will; Strzepek, Ken; Thurlow, James - 2011

The consequences of climate change for agriculture and food security in developing countries are of serious concern. Due to their reliance on rain-fed agriculture both as a source of income and consumption, many low-income countries are generally considered to be most vulnerable to climate...

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Gendered effects of climate and conflict shocks on food security in Sudan and the mitigating role of social protection

Kayaoglu, Aysegul; Baliki, Ghassan; Brück, Tilman - 2024

protection programmes that address gender disparities and enhance resilience among vulnerable populations. … conflict and climate shocks and whether these associations are gender-sensitive. Second, we test what mechanisms can reduce the …

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Foreign aid for climate change related capacity building

Chen, Zexian; He, Jingjing - 2013

The current climate change crisis has repeatedly alerted mankind to the urgency of tackling this pressing global challenge before it is too late. Developing countries, which have contributed negligibly to the present climate change problem are, nevertheless, hit the hardest by, and are most...

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Foreign aid, green cities and buildings

Kablan, Sandrine - 2013

This paper attempts, first, to assess foreign aid effectiveness in fostering green city procedures in developing countries. For this purpose, we rely on the following aid effectiveness criteria: national ownership; harmonization; alignment and mutual accountability; and results management. Our...

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Financing sustainable agriculture under climate change with a specific focus on foreign aid

Huang, Jikun - 2013

Agricultural development is facing great challenges in meeting global food security and is expected to face even greater difficulties under climate change. The overall goal of this paper is to examine how foreign aid in particular can be used to achieve the joint objectives of development,...

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Aid, growth, and jobs

Fields, Gary - 2012

poverty reduction: helping the poor earn more in the labour market for the work they do, so that they can buy the goods and … services they need to move up out of poverty. …

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Growth, inequality, and poverty reduction in developing countries: Recent global evidence

Fosu, Augustin Kwasi - 2011

The study presents recent global evidence on the transformation of economic growth to poverty reduction in developing …-specific data are analysed for the US$1.25 and US$2.50 level poverty headcount ratios using the most recent World Bank data. The … study finds that on average income growth has been the major driving force behind both the declines and increases in poverty …

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Using evidence and operational responses to accelerate gender equality in Kenya

Torkelsson, Åsa - 2014

Agriculture is a main contributor to pro-poor growth in Africa, but gender inequalities in the sector hold back … agricultural growth and affect household welfare negatively. The sector has been characterized by a lack of gender …-disaggregated data and patchy gender-integration in policies and operational responses. To remedy this, the World Bank (WB) and the …

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Microcredit and poverty alleviation: Can microcredit close the deal?

Quibria, M. G. - 2012

This paper explores the relationship between microcredit and poverty reduction. To investigate this question, we posit … supply constraints to the household's graduation from poverty. These constraints are difficult to overcome in a traditional …

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Are biofuels good for African development? An analytical framework with evidence from Mozambique and Tanzania

Arndt, Channing; Msangi, Siwa; Thurlow, James - 2010

Many low income countries in Africa are optimistic that producing biofuels domestically will not only reduce their dependence on imported fossil fuels, but also stimulate economic development, particularly in poorer rural areas. Skeptics, on the other hand, view biofuels as a threat to food...

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