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Nota de política, 2013
Regulated cotton prices in Burkina Faso have led to higher domestic prices and incentives to production. Although fixed prices, which are indexed to international cotton prices, ensure minimum prices to producers, the sustainability of this...
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Estudio de casos de país, 2013
The Global Strategic Framework for Food Security and Nutrition (GSF) is the first global framework adopted by consensus, by governments, which systematically mainstreams the right to adequate food and human rights into policies relevant to...
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A research guide for the From Protection to Production project
Estudio de casos de país, 2013
This Qualitative Research Guide describes in detail the sequencing and timing of the research process to be implemented in each country: training, fieldwork preparation and a simple and clear fieldwork roadmap. To achieve comparability and...
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ESA Working Paper 13-06
Documento de trabajo, 2013
Micronutrients are defined as substances in foods that are essential for human health and are required in small amounts. They include all of the known vitamins and essential trace minerals. Micronutrient malnutrition affects a third...
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ESA Working Paper 13-05
Documento de trabajo, 2013
We examine how the transformation of food value chains (FVCs) influence the triple malnutrition burden (undernourishment, micronutrient deficiencies and over-nutrition) in developing countries. We propose a FVC typology (modern, traditional, modern-to-traditional, and traditional-to-modern) that takes...
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ESA Working Paper 13-04
Documento de trabajo, 2013
Recent evidence on malnutrition and poverty raise important questions on the role of food assistance policies and programs. In this review article, we examine evidence on the economic and nutritional impacts of international food assistance...
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Nota de política, 2013
To make the URT’s rice sector more completive, MAFAP analysis suggests:
• promoting investments at the farm level to help increase yields and efficiency; and
• strengthening the rice value chain to increase its efficiency and...
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Nota de política, 2013
Although coffee is the URT’s second most important agricultural export, coffee growers receive prices which are lower than those they could potentially obtain. Lower farmers’ prices mainly relate to a few companies’ dominance of the...
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ESA Working Paper 13-03
Documento de trabajo, 2013
Rice self-sufficiency is a key objective of most Asian governments, yet attaining that objective has been elusive for several countries over extended periods of time; long-term status as an exporter or importer is relatively constant,...
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ESA Working Paper 13-02
Documento de trabajo, 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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