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    a threat to developing-country food security by 2020?

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 1999

    Global population in the year 2020 will be a third higher than in 1995, but demand for food and fiber will rise by an even higher proportion, as incomes grow, diets diversify, and urbanization accelerates. However this demand is met, population and farming pressure on land resources will intensify greatly. There is growing concern in some quarters that a decline in long-term soil productivity is already seriously limiting food production in the developing world, and that the problem is getting worse. Sarah Sherr first focuses on the magnitude and effects of soil degradation.

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    Are we ready for a meat revolution? (Featured article)

    Institutional & promotional materials
    December, 1999
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    a threat to developing-country food security by 2020?

    Peer-reviewed publication
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 1999

    Global population in the year 2020 will be a third higher than in 1995, but demand for food and fiber will rise by an even higher proportion, as incomes grow, diets diversify, and urbanization accelerates. However this demand is met, population and farming pressure on land resources will intensify greatly. There is growing concern in some quarters that a decline in long-term soil productivity is already seriously limiting food production in the developing world, and that the problem is getting worse. Sarah Sherr first focuses on the magnitude and effects of soil degradation.

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    International Workshop Promotes Better Management of Natural Resources through Users' Participation

    Institutional & promotional materials
    December, 1999
    Asia, Bangladesh
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    Are we ready for a meat revolution? (Featured article)

    Institutional & promotional materials
    December, 1999
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    exchange of knowledge and implications for policy

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 1999

    "Degradation of natural resources has become a global problem that threatens the livelihood of millions of poor people. Many promising technologies for natural resource management are available to address these problems, but farmers and others often fail to adopt them. Why is this? Although many factors can be identified, lack of secure property rights and collective action deserve greater attention from policy makers and technology developers.

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    Peer-reviewed publication
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 1999
    Eastern Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Ethiopia

    Soil erosion is one of the most serious environmental problems in Ethiopia. Coupled with growing populations, falling per capita food production and worsening poverty, loss of productive land due to land degradation undermines rural livelihoods and national food security. Despite their awareness of the erosion problem, peasants' investments in land have been limited. We use an applied nonseparable model to simulate conservation decisions. Pervasive market imperfections, poverty and high rates of time preference seem to undermine erosion-control investments.

  8. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 1999
    Eastern Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa

    Low agricultural productivity, land degradation and poverty are severe interrelated problems in the East African highlands. While the proximate causes of such problems are relatively well known, the underlying causes are many and complex, and depend upon many site-specific factors that vary greatly across the diverse circumstances of the region. In this paper, we argue that the appropriate strategy for sustainable development depends greatly upon the “pathways of development” that are feasible in a given location.

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