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Gender Analysis of Aquaculture Value Chain in Northeast Vietnam and Nigeria

Reports & Research
Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2009
Vietnam
Land & Food Security
agriculture
farmers
fisheries
food security
land ownership
rural areas
rural development
rural population
urban areas
water management
The report is an initiative of the Agriculture and Rural Development Department (ARD) of the World Bank. Aquaculture is the fastest-growing food sector in the world and is expected to contribute more than 50 percent of total fish consumption by 2020. Just over 90 percent of aquaculture production originates in Asia, and nearly 70 percent in China alone. Efforts to expand aquaculture production to meet the ever increasing worldwide demand for seafood continue.
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China - From Poor Areas to Poor People : China’s Evolving Poverty Reduction Agenda - An Assessment of Poverty and Inequality in China

Training Resources & Tools
March, 2009
China, Eastern Asia, Asia, Oceania
Urban Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
farmers
land rights
natural disasters
rural areas
rural development
rural population
urban areas
urban population
China's progress in poverty reduction over the last 25 years is enviable. One cannot fail to be impressed by what this vast nation of 1.3 billion people has achieved in so little time. In terms of a wide range of indicators, the progress has been remarkable. Poverty in terms of income and consumption has been dramatically reduced. Progress has also been substantial in terms of human development indicators. Most of the millennium development goals have either already been achieved or the country is well on the way to achieving them.
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Efficiency and Equity Impacts of Rural Land Rental Restrictions : Evidence from India

Reports & Research
Policy Papers & Briefs
August, 2007
India, Southern Asia
agrarian reform
agriculture
eviction
farmers
land reform
land tenure
land use
property rights
rural areas
rural development
tenants
transaction costs
Recognition of the potentially deleterious implications of inequality in opportunity originating in a skewed asset distribution has spawned considerable interest in land reforms. However, little attention has been devoted to fact that, in the longer term, the measures used to implement land reforms could negatively affect productivity. Use of state level data on rental restrictions, together with a nationally representative survey from India, suggests that, contrary to original intentions, rental restrictions negatively affect productivity and equity.
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Crop Output in Vietnam, 1992 to 2006

An Analysis of the Patterns and Sources of Growth

Reports & Research
Training Resources & Tools
January, 2009
Vietnam, Eastern Asia, Oceania
farmers
fisheries
The purpose of this report is to provide a detailed analysis of the behavior of cropping output in agriculture between 1992 and 2006 in Vietnam at both the national and regional level. There are several motivations. The report focuses our analysis on trends with respect to how rapidly output was growing in real terms. The next parts of the chain will link output to farm incomes more directly. First this requires information on the value-added from crop production (gross output value less the cost of intermediate inputs) in order to convert gross revenue into real net income.
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Agricultural Activities, Water, and Gender in Tajikistan's Rural Sector

A Social Assessment of Konibodom, Bobojon Ghafurov, and Yovon

Reports & Research
Training Resources & Tools
August, 2009
Tajikistan, Europe, Central Asia
agriculture
farmers
land reform
land tenure
rural development
water management
This social assessment (SA) was conducted under the Fergana Valley Water Resources Management Project (FVWRMP), which is providing assistance to the Government of Tajikistan to address irrigation and drainage deficiencies in Eastern Sughd. The main SA objectives were to understand how prevailing structures of water provision, land reforms, and gender relations impact rural livelihoods; to analyze experiences in establishing inclusive Water Users Associations (WUAs); and to provide recommendations to FVWRMP with the aim of enhancing its programs.
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Agricultural Protection and Poverty in Indonesia

A General Equilibrium Analysis

Reports & Research
Policy Papers & Briefs
June, 2009
Indonesia, Eastern Asia, Oceania
agriculture
farmers
rural areas
A general equilibrium modeling approach is used to estimate the effects within Indonesia of unilateral and global trade liberalization, including effects on poverty incidence. It is concluded that global reform of trade policy in all commodities is a significant potential source of poverty reduction for Indonesia. The poor rural and urban have a strong interest in global trade policy reform. If Indonesia were to liberalize unilaterally, poverty incidence also will decline but the effect is small.
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Economic and Poverty Impacts of Agricultural, Trade, and Factor Market Reforms in China

Reports & Research
Policy Papers & Briefs
June, 2009
China, Eastern Asia, Oceania
agriculture
farmers
land ownership
land reform
property rights
rural areas
rural population
transaction costs
Capitalizing on the most recent estimates of agricultural price distortions in China and in other countries, this paper assesses the economic and poverty impact of global and domestic trade reform in China. It also examines the interplay between the trade reforms and factor market reforms aimed at improving the allocation of labor within the Chinese economy. The results suggest that trade reforms in the rest of the world, land reform and hukou reform all serve to reduce poverty, while unilateral trade reforms result in a small poverty increase.
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Political Economy of Agricultural Distortions in Transition Countries of Asia and Europe

Reports & Research
Policy Papers & Briefs
May, 2009
Vietnam, Kyrgyzstan, China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Eastern Europe, Europe, Central Asia, Eastern Asia, Oceania
agriculture
farmers
land reform
property rights
rural development
This paper analyzes the political and institutional factors which are behind the dramatic changes in distortions to agricultural incentives in the transition countries in East Asia, Central Asia, and the rest of the former Soviet Union, and in Central and Eastern Europe. The paper explains why these changes have occurred and why there are large differences among transition countries in the extent and the nature of the remaining distortions.
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Poverty Implications of Agricultural and Non-Agricultural Price Distortions in Pakistan

Reports & Research
Policy Papers & Briefs
June, 2009
Pakistan, Southern Asia
agriculture
farmers
landowners
rural areas
rural development
sustainable development
Using recent estimates of industry assistance rates, the effects of trade liberalization in the rest of the world and in Pakistan alone are analyzed using a global and a Pakistan computable general equilibrium (CGE) model under two tax replacement schemes: a direct income tax and an indirect tax replacement. The results indicate that the distributional and poverty effects in Pakistan of a unilateral liberalization of all traded goods are significantly greater than the effects of trade liberalization in the rest of the world.
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Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Western Europe

Reports & Research
Policy Papers & Briefs
September, 2008
Europe, Central Asia
Land & Food Security
agriculture
farmers
food security
rural areas
Agriculture in Western Europe enjoys a degree of diversity that reflects a wide variety of soils and climatic conditions ranging from the arid Mediterranean regions to the Arctic Circle. Superimposed on this natural diversity is the complexity of different social, economic and political conditions in the eighteen countries that are the subject of this chapter.