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Payer les agriculteurs pour les services environnementaux
Publication phare, 2007
SOFA 2007 La situation mondiale de l'alimentation et de l'agriculture 2007 tente de déterminer comment l'agriculture pourrait fournir davantage de services environnementaux, en plus de la production de denrées alimentaires et de fi bres. La...
Articles de presse, 2007
This report reviews gender issues in Liberia’s agriculture and rural sector with a special focus
on rural women and how to improve their participation and contribution to rural development. The report reviews women’s roles in...
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Articles de presse, 2007
This paper contributes to the understanding of the dynamics of developing country rural labour markets by re-evaluating the available evidence on the levels and composition of income sources adopted by rural households in order to...
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Articles de presse, 2007
The paper discusses the economic effects of misallocation of public expenditures in favor of private goods rather than public goods. It first lays out certain key hypotheses regarding the consequences of the apparent public sector...
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Articles de presse, 2007
The paper summarizes the key routes through which internal and international migration impact rural development and some of the evidence pertaining to these effects in low income countries. It concludes that, although the study of...
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Articles de presse, 2007
This paper explores a territorial approach to rural development in Latin America. It first reviews evidence that progress in rural social development has not been accompanied by reductions in income poverty and inequality. It then...
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ESA Working Paper 07-02
Document de travail, 2007
This paper examines the relationship between rurality and poverty, and the role the agricultural sector can play in rural development, poverty reduction, and overall development. The historical views regarding the role of the primary sector...
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Lessons learned in Brazil
Manuel/directives, 2007
One-third of Brazil’s export earnings come from agriculture, yet in 2004, 72 million of its 185 million residents were affected by food insecurity (Institute of Geography and Statistics). Only when this situation became unacceptable to...
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Étude de cas par pays, 2007
Since the onset of the Israeli occupation in 1967, the economy of the West Bank and Gaza
Strip (WBGS) has been an “income economy” rather than a “production economy”—making
the WBGS extremely vulnerable to the...
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ESA Working Paper 07-01
Document de travail, 2007
In this paper we examine the effects of the composition (between private and public goods) of government expenditures in the rural world, and the effect that corruption has in the political game that determines these...
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