The negative impacts of climate change have made poverty and deforestation topics of heightened interest within global … community discussions in recent years. Our study contributes to the debate over the links between poverty and deforestation by … providing an alternative approach from the village level perspective, whilst broadening the range of poverty measures based on …

Agricultural research in marginal dry areas can contribute to reducing poverty through the development of technological … implications on where and how research must be targeted to have impact on poverty. Households less endowed in land and natural … discuss the pathways that these different groups can undertake to escape poverty, with emphasis on those that use agricultural …

Vulnerability to poverty is a major problem in the rural areas of Sub Saharan Africa. Rural Households are confronted … contribution of indigenous fruit trees towards reducing vulnerability to food insecurity and poverty. The methodology used is a …

rural areas and the poor, although they should be beneficial not only for overall growth, but also rural growth and poverty …

poverty among them. Our analyses also find that the dissemination leads to the overexploitation of groundwater, and thus … wells creates double tragedies: not only increased poverty among the no-well-access farmers but also overexploitation and …

households behind. In this paper, we demonstrate a new approach to measuring poverty trends over time. First, the relationship … between poverty and household characteristics is estimated using household budget survey data. Second, this relationship is … results suggest that the headcount poverty rate has declined by almost 9 percentage points over 1991-2003. The percentagepoint …

There is no consensus about how globalization –trade and foreign investments – affects poverty reduction. Using … household survey data, this study contributes to the empirical literature on globalization and poverty by analyzing the …, full vertical integration and complete exclusion of smallholder suppliers. We analyze and quantify income and poverty …

This paper studies how the internal structure of agriculture export markets and the level of competition affect poverty … the poverty impacts of those changes in the value chains for twelve case studies. We investigate the average impact for …

that biofuels investment enhances growth and poverty reduction despite some displacement of food crops by biofuels. Overall … reduces the incidence of poverty by about six percentage points over a 12-year phase-in period. Benefits depend on production …