Publications
Publications récentes
ESA Working Paper 03-15
Document de travail, 2003
This paper provides an assessment of the agricultural diversification trends in South Asia. In the first part food consumption and crop production patterns in the region during the last twenty years are reviewed. Next, the...
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ESA Working Paper 03-14
Document de travail, 2003
On farm conservation of crop diversity poses obvious policy challenges in terms of the design of appropriate incentive mechanisms and possible trade-offs between conservation and productivity. This paper compares factors explaining the inter-specific diversity (diversity...
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Étude technique, 2003
In May and June 2003, the MAAH, MRRD, FAO and WFP conducted a National Crop Output Assessment (NCOA) covering more than 100 districts across the country. The NCOA is the most comprehensive crop assessment undertaken...
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ESA Working Paper 03-12
Document de travail, 2003
The aim of this article is to study the relations between social capital (SC) and the result of the efforts made by poor groups to reduce their poverty and social exclusion. To this end, SC...
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ESA Working Paper 03-10
Document de travail, 2003
In particular public sector and private formal sector employees and export farmers benefited from the complete turnaround in the macroeconomic environment and performance. Fundamentally this turnaround could not have happened without the political will to...
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ESA Working Paper 03-09
Document de travail, 2003
This study addresses the strategies and the factors of agricultural export performance in Africa compared with other regions, especially Asia. Regarding the figures of agricultural export performance across these regions, the study finds that agricultural...
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ESA Working Paper 03-08
Document de travail, 2003
The majority of biotech research and almost all of the commercialization of genetically engineered crops has been done by private firms based in industrialized countries. The dominance of the private sector in biotechnology research and...
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ESA Working Paper 03-07
Document de travail, 2003
This paper examines the economic determinants and impacts of agricultural research, particularly biotechnology research, with a view to understanding the potential of agricultural biotechnology to address the needs of the poor in developing countries. It...
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ESA Working Paper 03-05
Document de travail, 2003
This study investigates the relationship between nutrition intake and economic growth as an attempt to provide useful insights for FAO’s Anti-Hunger Programme. It addresses the question of how much economic growth is lost by a...
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Discerning transient from chronic poverty in Nicaragua: measurement with a two period panel data set
ESA Working Paper 03-03
Document de travail, 2003
This paper deals with consumption dynamics and its effects on poverty. An econometric model is proposed in which changes in consumption across time are seen as fluctuations around the level of consumption that each family...
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