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The economic lives of smallholder farmers An analysis based on household data from nine countries
Estudio técnico, 2015
Based on an innovative smallholder-specific dataset, this report illustrates the lives of smallholder farmers in nine developing and emerging countries, using economics to analyze data from rural household surveys. It examines different dimensions of smallholders’...
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Estudio de casos de país, 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...
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ESA Working Paper 14-10
Documento de trabajo, 2014
The definition of family farm varies across countries and contexts. We reviewed 36 definitions and uses of the term “family farm” by academics, government and civil society organisations that describe the characteristics that make family...
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ESA Working Paper 14-02
Documento de trabajo, 2014
The agricultural economics literature provides various estimates of the number of farms and small farms in the world. This paper is an effort to provide a more complete and up to date as well as...
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Estudio de casos de país, 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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El crecimiento económico es necesario pero no suciente para acelerar la reducción del hambre y la malnutrición
Informe principal, 2012
En El estado de la inseguridad alimentaria en el mundo 2012 se presentan nuevas estimaciones de la subnutrición basadas en una metodología revisada y mejorada. Las nuevas estimaciones indican que los avances en la reducción...
Artículo de revista especializada, 2012
In this paper, we examine whether the causes and patterns of Mexican rural female migration differ significantly from rural male migration. A number of hypotheses are discussed to explain why female migration may differ from...
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ESA Working Paper 11-17
Documento de trabajo, 2011
This paper investigates the livestock asset positions of rural households and the contribution of livestock to their income in 12 developing countries. It draws on the FAO Rural Income Generating Activities (RIGA) database, which allows...
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ESA Working Paper 11-14
Documento de trabajo, 2011
The present paper attempts to identify the groups of households that most likely will face
positive or negative welfare consequences as a result of food price increases. Using data from household surveys and differentiating urban from...
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ESA Working Paper 11-08
Documento de trabajo, 2011
This paper considers the impact of gender specific constraints on the production and marketing of cash crops. Cash crop production differs from general agricultural production in that it entails engaging in output markets to make...
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