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Policy brief, 2015
In recent years, government's investments in agriculture have focused on increasing land under irrigation, subsidizing inputs, strengthening the agricultural extension service and reforming agricultural sector institutions through the privatization of a number of parastatals. Although...
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Policy brief, 2015
In Senegal, the government has given great importance and priority to the development and promotion of national rice production to achieve self-sufficiency by 2017. Besides, emphasis has been placed on risk management with the creation...
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Debating India’s national food security law
Country case study, 2015
This book provides an overview of the most important debates which ensued in the four and a half years of the official writing and consideration of the India’s National Food Security Act food law, which...
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Policy brief, 2015
The government of Burundi has timidly decreased State involvement in strategic value chains, with a view to open the market, enhance effectiveness, and reduce the fiscal deficit. With regards to social protection, no specific national...
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ESA Working Paper 15-02
Working paper, 2015
Climate variability, associated with farm-income variability, is recognized as one of the main drivers of livelihood diversification strategies in developing countries. Analysing determinants of livelihood diversification choices, to better understand household strategic behaviour in the...
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Policy brief, 2015
Uganda is putting significant efforts toward addressing the constraints responsible for its low agricultural productivity, which affects farmers’ incomes and therefore, their food security. The biggest developments are being seen in improving the added value...
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EPIC Policy Brief No. 5
Policy brief, 2015
This brief summarises the results of a recent analysis of a nationally representative farm household survey in Malawi linked with climate data to assess the impact of climate variability on farm household welfare, the patterns...
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An in-depth review of the evolution of integrated public policies to strength family farms in Brazil
ESA Working Paper 15-01
Working paper, 2015
From 2003, the Zero Hunger Program and subsequently, in 2011, the Brazil Without Poverty Plan, marked a deliberate convergence of the purposes and actions focused on farmers and family farmers in Brazil. This allowed simultaneous...
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Meeting the 2015 international hunger targets: taking stock of uneven progress
Major report, 2015
This year´s annual State of Food Insecurity in the World report takes stock of progress made towards achieving the internationally established Millennium Development Goal (MDG1) and World Food Summit hunger targets and reflects on what...
Meeting the 2015 international hunger targets: taking stock of uneven progress
Major report, 2015
The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2015 takes stock of progress made since 1990 towards Millennium Development Goal 1, to “eradicate extreme poverty and hunger”, and World Food Summit hunger targets. Key success...