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continues to be an important issue despite steady advances in food production. To be able to leverage agriculture as an engine … survey data from Bangladesh, we examine the relationship between women's empowerment in agriculture and two measures of … Agriculture Index to assess the extent of women's empowerment in agriculture and instrumental variables techniques to correct for …
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This paper uses a unique, spatially-explicit dataset to study the link between agricultural performance and rural poverty in Madagascar. We show that, controlling for geographical and physical characteristics, communes that have higher rates of adoption of improved agricultural technologies and,...
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Foresight and trade-off analyses offer organizations such as CGIAR an opportunity to better prepare for alternative futures through adaptive research strategy and management. This essay introduces a set of papers that explore foresight and trade-off analyses within the context of the major...
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Widespread hunger and malnutrition persist today despite considerable growth in per capita food availability. This has prompted an evolving conceptualization of food security and of mechanisms to attain and maintain food security. This chapter discusses both food security and food assistance...
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, we explore the role of agriculture in the broader development process from a macroeconomic and political economy …
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