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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    May, 2014
    Africa

    Includes the figures and what they tell us: the vast majority of farms in the world today are small and getter smaller; small farms are being squeezed onto less than a quarter of global agricultural land; we’re fast losing farms and farmers in many places, while big farms are getting bigger; despite their scarce and dwindling resources, small farmers continue to be the world’s major food producers; small farms not only produce most of the food, they are also the most productive; most small farmers are women, but their contributions are ignored and marginalised.

  2. Library Resource
    August, 2014
    Egypt

    This sector report on Challenges and
    Priorities for Rural Development analyzes why Upper Egypt
    has lagged behind the rest of the country and to help the
    Government of Egypt and stakeholders to define a framework
    for interventions to promote broad-based economic growth and
    human development that will reach the poor and improve
    welfare in rural Upper Egypt. To achieve this objective, the
    strategic framework for intervention proposed here has two

  3. Library Resource
    August, 2014
    Senegal

    The main objective of the study is to
    provide the Government of Senegal the analyses and
    information to implement policies towards reducing the rural
    poor's vulnerability. While during the latest years,
    economic growth reduced poverty in the country, this has
    been less noticeable among the rural population, who
    actually account for 6 million people over a total
    population of 10 million. The rural economy remains

  4. Library Resource
    April, 2014
    Zimbabwe

    The authors focus on the timing of
    marriages of women in rural Zimbabwe. Zimbabwean marriages
    are associated with bride welath payments, which are
    transfers from (the family of) the groom to the bride's
    family. Unmarried daughters could therefore be considered
    assets who, at time of need, can be cashed in. The authors
    investigate to what extent the timing of a marriage of a
    daughter is affected by the economic conditions of the

  5. Library Resource
    September, 2014
    Mauritania

    This report analyzes the experience
    of Mauritania with the Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS)
    process. The focus of the report is on evaluating the
    performance of the World Bank in supporting the PRSP
    initiative, not on appraising the authorities policies. The
    report covers the formulation and implementation of the PRSP
    and encompasses the two PRSP progress reports which have
    been completed since the initiative was launched in

  6. Library Resource
    February, 2014
    Africa

    This article reviews trends in poverty,
    economic policies, and growth in a sample of African
    countries during the 1990s, drawing on the better household
    data now available. Experiences have varied. Some countries
    have seen sharp drops in income poverty, whereas others have
    witnessed marked increases. In some countries overall
    economic growth has been pro-poor and in others not. But the
    aggregate numbers hide systematic distributional effects.

  7. Library Resource
    July, 2014
    Zambia

    Despite positive, relatively broad-based
    and stable growth record in recent years and immense
    untapped potential in agriculture, mining and services,
    Zambia's poverty rates have not declined significantly
    and remain high. Income growth is limited by coordination
    failures such as poor access to domestic and international
    markets, inputs, extension services and information. High
    indirect costs - most of which attributable to

  8. Library Resource
    July, 2014
    Mozambique

    The dramatic increases in world food and
    fuel prices during 2007 and early 2008 may set back
    Mozambique's considerable advances in poverty reduction
    during the past decade. This study assesses the impact of
    higher fuel and food prices at both household and
    macroeconomic levels, and also considers policy options to
    mitigate some of the negative impacts of higher prices.
    Rising world prices certainly represents a negative

  9. Library Resource
    August, 2014
    Africa, Southern Africa

    Miombo woodlands stretch across Southern
    Africa in a belt from Angola and the Democratic Republic of
    Congo (DRC) in the west to Mozambique in the east. The
    miombo region covers an area of around 2.4 million km. In
    some areas, miombo has been highly degraded as a result of
    human use (southern Malawi and parts of Zimbabwe), while in
    others, it remains relatively intact (such as in parts of
    northern Mozambique, and in isolated areas of Angola and the

  10. Library Resource
    June, 2014
    Liberia

    This Policy Memorandum provides policy
    advice to the government of Liberia (GOL) in an effort to
    mainstream gender issues in policies, programs, and projects
    supporting agricultural production and value-chain
    development. It is organized as follows. Section I reviews
    women's roles in Liberian agriculture and agricultural
    value chains, drawing on a variety of data sources,
    including the 2007 Core Welfare Indicator Questionnaire

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