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Artículo de revista especializada, 2003
Using a nationally representative dataset, and information on why farmers did not purchase fertilizer, the authors estimate a double-hurdle fertilizer adoption model for Ethiopia. Access is an overriding constraint in four zones. Credit is shown...
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Monitoring progress towards the World Food Summit and Millennium Development Goals
Informe principal, 2003
FAO’s latest estimates of hunger around the world offer striking evidence that progress toward the World Food Summit (WFS) goal is possible. They also show conclusively that without redoubled national and global commitment the goal...
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Artículo de revista especializada, 2003
Cross entropy is used to estimate the Almost Ideal Demand System for consumption in Greece. The entropy estimates are found to improve upon the SUR estimates. It is recommended that practitioners consider employing entropy based...
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Estudio de casos de país, 2003
World agriculture: towards 2015/2030 is FAO’s latest assessment of the long-term outlook for the world’s food supplies, nutrition and agriculture. It presents the projections and the main messages. The projections cover supply and demand for...
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Estudio de casos de país, 2003
Poverty and food security are heterogeneous phenomena in most countries; types and depth of poverty, measured in different ways, vary between and within countries and regions. Poverty mapping in its various forms involves techniques that...
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Estudio de casos de país, 2003
This publication contains three in-depth studies on the cost of hunger. These studies: 1) review the theoretical background to and the empirical evidence of how nutrition intake affects economic growth; 2) investigate the relationship between...
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FAO legislative study number 77
Estudio de casos de país, 2003
This study analyses the normative content of the right to adequate food in emergency situations, examining the provisions of human rights law as well as those of other relevant branches of international law, including international...
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ESA Working Paper 02-15
Documento de trabajo, 2002
This paper argues for a twin-track approach to hunger and poverty reduction that combines measures to promote rural development through growth in agriculture and rural off-farm activities with measures to provide direct and immediate access...
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ESA Working Paper 02-14
Documento de trabajo, 2002
This paper contains the main results of a FAO study on staple food prices and real wages in Afghanistan during the period 1996-2002, based on information systematically collected weekly by WFP in all major cities...
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ESA Working Paper 02-13
Documento de trabajo, 2002
This article explores the role of migrant networks in Mexican rural out-migration focusing on how network composition influences rural-to-rural, rural-to-urban, and rural-to-international migration. Using data from rural Mexico, migration is considered in a multiple-choice context...
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