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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...
Available in:English
EPIC Policy Brief No. 3
Policy brief, 2015
This policy brief summarizes the main points of the mitigation analysis of the EPIC programme for Zambia. It identifies the principal sources of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and highlights that the Agriculture, Forestry and Land...
Available in:English
Keywords: EPIC brief_Zambia_FINAL_LowRes.pdf
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...
Country case study, 2015
This paper explores the impact of climate risk on the adoption of risk decreasing practices and other input choices and evaluates their impact on subjective and objective measures
of household welfare (namely net crop income...
Available in:English
Country case study, 2015
This paper analyzes how a set of widely promoted agricultural practices, including reduced tillage, crop rotations, legume intercropping as well as the use of modern inputs, affect crop yields and their resilience (i.e. probability of...
Available in:English
A methodology for building Climate-Smart Agriculture
Country case study, 2015
Climate change fundamentally alters how we should manage agricultural systems for food security as clearly shown in the recently released IPCC Working Group II report on Food Security and Food Production Systems. Climate change is...
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ESA Working Paper 14-13
Working paper, 2014
This paper analyzes how a set of widely promoted agricultural practices, including reduced tillage, crop rotations, legume intercropping as well as the use of modern inputs, affect crop yields and their resilience (i.e. probability of...
Available in:English
ESA Working Paper 14-12
Working paper, 2014
We assess farmers' incentives and the conditioning factors that hinder or promote adoption of agricultural technologies under climate risk and evaluate its impact on food security in Niger. We distinguish between (i) exposure to climatic...
Available in:English