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ESA Working Paper 13-02
Working paper, 2013
Developing country food systems have changed dramatically since the Green Revolution period. At the same time, malnutrition still represents a challenge and is now understood to encompass the three simultaneous dimensions of undernourishment, micronutrient deficiencies,...
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Policy brief, 2013
Public expenditure on agriculture and rural development in Burkina Faso has not adequately targeted the main factors which depress producers’ prices of most key commodities: few and inadequate rural roads, a lack of transport capacity...
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Information product, 2013
This brief provides emerging evidence from the implementation of the Climate-Smart Agriculture project in Zambia. The analysis clearly indicates that better screening of agro-ecological and socio-economic constraints and incentives for adoption of conservation farming are...
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Policy brief, 2013
Kenyan smallholder tea farmers generally received prices closer to those in international markets. This reflects the country’s
liberalized market structure for tea and the lack of distortions resulting from domestic policies. The close alignment
between domestic and...
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Information product, 2013
This brief provides emerging evidence from the implementation of the Climate-Smart Agriculture project in Malawi. We analyze factors governing farmers’ decision to adopt adaptation strategies and evaluate the potential impact of adoption on crop productivity...
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Policy brief, 2013
Kenya´s cattle producers are currently hindered by the structure and functioning of the domestic market, recurring drought, the prevalence of disease and the inability to meet importing countries’ sanitary requirements. MAFAP analysis
suggests that unless these...
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Food systems for better nutrition
Major report, 2013
Malnutrition in all its forms – undernutrition, micronutrient deficiencies, and overweight and obesity – imposes unacceptably high economic and social costs on countries at all income levels. Improving nutrition and reducing these costs requires a...
Policy brief, 2013
Although cotton is a major export crop in the URT, domestic cotton farmers received lower prices than what they could have potentially obtained between 2005 and 2010. MAFAP analysis suggests that the following measures would...
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Food systems for better nutrition
Major report, 2013
A shorter version of the FAO flagship publication The State of Food and Agriculture 2013, the In Brief is aimed at the media, policymakers and more general public.
Country case study, 2013
Since social protection and smallholder agricultural interventions often cover the same geographic
space and target the same households, there are opportunities for synergies and complementarities
that strengthen livelihoods of poor rural households.
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