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Global cropping intensity gaps: Increasing food production without cropland expansion

Peer-reviewed publication
Journal Articles & Books
December, 2018
Southern Asia, South-Eastern Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa
Land & Food Security
farmland
food security
land clearing
water management
farming systems
agriculture
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Animal sourced foods and child stunting

Peer-reviewed publication
Journal Articles & Books
December, 2018
Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, South-Eastern Asia, Southern Asia, Cambodia, Bangladesh
Land & Food Security
fisheries
youth
food security
Stunting affects 160 million pre-school children globally with adverse life-long consequences. While work within nutritional science suggests that stunting in early childhood is associated with low intakes of animal-sourced foods (ASFs), this topic has received little attention from economists. We attempt to redress this omission through an analysis of 130,432 children aged 6–23 months from 49 countries. We document distinctive patterns of ASF consumption among children in different regions.
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A quiet revolution emerging in the fish-farming value chain in Myanmar: Implication for national food security

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2015
South-Eastern Asia, Asia, Myanmar
Land & Food Security
food security
farmers
land use
land investments
Fish farming (aquaculture) is important to Myanmar’s food security and is developing and transforming quickly. This brief presents findings from a new field survey of the farmed fish value chain that is more detailed and broader than any previous study conducted in Myanmar. Many of our findings are at odds with what we perceive as conventional wisdom about fish farming in Myanmar. The findings have important policy implications to unlock the sector’s full growth potential and food security contributions.
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Nourishing millions: Stories of change in nutrition

Peer-reviewed publication
Reports & Research
June, 2016
Global, Ethiopia, Brazil, Peru, Thailand, Vietnam, Bangladesh, India, Nepal
Land & Food Security
agriculture
food security
poverty
sustainable development
Malnutrition costs the world trillions of dollars, but global commitment to improving people’s nutrition is on the rise, and so is our knowledge of how to do so. Over the past 50 years, understanding of nutrition has evolved beyond a narrow focus on hunger and famine. We now know that good nutrition depends not only on people’s access to a wide variety of foods, but also on the care they receive and the environment they live in. A number of countries and programs have exploited this new understanding to make enormous strides in nutrition.
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Common-pool resources, livelihoods, and resilience

Critical challenges for governance in Cambodia

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2011
Asia, South-Eastern Asia, Cambodia
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land & Food Security
Forest Tenure
fisheries
food security
forestry
natural resources management
Common-pool resource management is a critical element in the interlocked challenges of food security, nutrition, poverty reduction, and environmental sustainability. This paper examines strategic policy choices and governance challenges facing Cambodia‘s forests and fisheries, the most economically important subsectors of agriculture that rely on common-pool resources. It then outlines policy priorities for institutional development to achieve improvements in implementing these goals.
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Farming Smarter

the uphill push toward conservation agriculture

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2012
Southern Asia, Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Africa, Western Africa, South-Eastern Asia, Guatemala, Indonesia, China, Nigeria, Yemen
Land & Gender
Land & Food Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
agriculture
sustainable land management
women
rural development
food security
land
agroforestry systems
farmers
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Rural livelihoods in Mon State: Evidence from a representative household survey

Reports & Research
December, 2016
South-Eastern Asia, Asia, Myanmar
Land & Food Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
rural areas
agriculture
rural development
poverty
fisheries
natural disasters
sustainable land management
The purpose of this report is to provide information and analysis to government, civil society, and donors interested in improving the well-being of the rural population of Mon State. Specifically, the report analyzes the different sources of income for rural households, as well as their socioeconomic characteristics, with a view to identifying potential pathways to improving incomes, especially for poor households, and stimulating inclusive rural growth.
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Aquaculture in transition: Value chain transformation, fish and food security in Myanmar

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2015
South-Eastern Asia, Asia, Myanmar
Land & Food Security
food security
agriculture
rural development
fisheries
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Contract farming of swine in Southeast Asia as a response to changing market demand for quality and safety in pork

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2008
South-Eastern Asia
Land & Food Security
contract farming
food security
water management
"Contract farming is conventionally thought of as a form of industrial organization that helps to overcome high monitoring, supervision, and environmental mitigation costs incurred from ensuring a reliable and uniform-quality supply (from the standpoint of integrators) and high capital and small-scale input and service purchase costs (from the standpoint of individual farmers). But contract farming is also a private sector vertical coordination response to the changing demand for certifying the use of quality inputs to produce quality outputs and of safe production procedures.