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    Farmer management of groundwater irrigation in Asia: selected papers from a South Asian Regional Workshop on Groundwater Farmer-Managed Irrigation Systems and Sustainable Groundwater Management, Dhaka, Bangladesh 18-21 May 1992

    Conference Papers & Reports
    December, 1994
    India, Bangladesh, China, Indonesia, Nepal, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Asia

    In this workshop the participants identified five priority areas of concern relative to sustainable management of groundwater irrigation by farmers:1) aquifer drawdown; 2) FMIS groundwaterwater support services, 3) management problems under water-surplus conditions; 4) management problems under water-deficit conditions; 5) management problems in conjunctive use areas .

  4. Library Resource

    Contract farming and commercialization of agriculture in developing countries

    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 1994
    Southern Asia, Africa, Bangladesh, China, Gambia, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Malawi, Philippines, Rwanda, Zambia
    agriculture
    property
    contract farming

    The distributional benefits of commercialization of agriculture, access to commercialization opportunities, and sharing of commercialization risks are functions of institutional arrangements. Obviously, the indirect food security and nutritional effects are, thereby, partly a function of such institutional arrangements. This chapter explores the relevance to food security of one form of contractual relationship in agriculture: formal contracts between producers and buyers (generally processors or exporters), a production and marketing system known as contract farming.

  5. Library Resource

    Gender and poverty

    Reports & Research
    January, 1995
    Ghana, Africa, Asia, Bangladesh
    property
    poverty

    This paper presents new evidence on the association between gender and poverty based on an empirical analysis of 11 data sets from 10 developing countries. The paper computes income- and expenditure-based poverty measures and investigates their sensitivity to the use of per capita and per adult equivalent units. It also tests for differences in poverty incidence between individuals in male- and female-headed households using stochastic dominance analysis.

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    Employment for poverty reduction and food security

    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 1995
    Southern Asia, Africa, Tanzania, Bangladesh, Botswana, China, India, Niger, Zimbabwe
    food security

    "Rapid expansion of employment in low-income countries is one of the biggest challenges of development. The growth in labor supply in developing countries will remain large for a long time to come. Incomes of the poor in rural areas will depend more and more on productive off-farm work, and in the rapidly expanding urban areas, food security will depend largely on jobs and wage rates"--P. xiii.

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    Agricultural commercialization, economic development, and nutrition

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 1994
    Southern Asia, Eastern Asia, Africa, India, Bangladesh, China
    Land & Food Security
    agricultural and rural legislation
    agriculture
    farming systems
    agricultural land management
    food security

    A large body of literature makes the argument that commercialization of agriculture has mainly negative effects on the employment, incomes, food production and consumption, health, and nutrition of the poor. In Commercialization of Agriculture, Economic Development, and Nutrition, Joachim von Braun and Eileen Kennedy find that the conclusion that commercialization of agriculture is generally bad for nutrition is flawed.

  8. Library Resource

    Introduction and overview [in Agricultural commercialization, economic development, and nutrition]

    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 1994
    Southern Asia, Africa, Bangladesh, China, Gambia, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Malawi, Philippines, Rwanda, Zambia
    property
    development

    Why should there be a book about the commercialization of subsistence agriculture, economic development, and nutrition? There are two compelling resasons. First, concerns and suspicions about adverse effects on the poor of commercialization of subsistence agriculture persist and influence policy of developing countries and of donor agencies.

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