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Articles de presse, 2002
In recent years, there has been increasing emphasis in the rural development literature
on the multiple income-generating activities undertaken by rural households and the
importance of assets in determining the capacity to undertake these activities.
Controlling for endogeneity...
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Food insecurity – when people live with hunger and fear starvation
Publication phare, 2002
This fourth edition of The State of Food Insecurity in the World (SOFI) provides the latest estimates of the number of chronically hungry people in the world and reports on global and national efforts to...
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ESA Working Paper 02-05
Document de travail, 2002
An agribusiness firm’s choice to expand activities through contract farming rather than plantations, buying directly from open markets or other means reflects differences in transaction costs found in different types of procurement systems. Smallholders may...
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Étude de cas par pays, 2002
Evidence from developing countries points towards the growing importance of non-farm activities in the income-generating portfolio of rural households (Lanjouw and Stern, 1993; Estudillo and Otsuka, 1998). From an extensive review of the literature, Reardon...
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L’agriculture et les biens collectifs mondiaux 10 ans après le Sommet de la planète terre
Publication phare, 2002
La situation mondiale de l’alimentation et de l’agriculture 2002 est le rapport annuel de la FAO sur les nouvelles tendances et les problèmes courants de l’agriculture mondiale. Il examine la situation agricole dans le monde...
Articles de presse, 2002
Urbanization and globalization may enhance access to non traditional foods as a result of changing prices and production practices, as well as trade and marketing practices. These forces have influenced dietary patterns throughout the developing...
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FAO legislative study number 76
Étude de cas par pays, 2002
Throughout the world, women constitute a large portion of the economically active population engaged in agriculture, both as farmers and as farm workers, and play a crucial role in ensuring household food security. In many...
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ESA Working Paper 02-04
Document de travail, 2002
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 01-06
Document de travail, 2001
In recent years, there has been increasing emphasis in the rural development literature on the multiple income-generating activities undertaken by rural households and the importance of assets in determining the capacity to undertake these activities....
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Publication phare, 2001
Cette troisime dition de L''tat de l''inscurit alimentaire dans le monde rend compte des efforts dploys par la communaut mondiale et les diffrents pays afin d''atteindre l''objectif que s''est fix le Sommet mondial de l''alimentation...
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