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  1. Library Resource
    Nourishing millions: Stories of change in nutrition cover image
    Peer-reviewed publication
    Reports & Research
    June, 2016
    Global, Ethiopia, Brazil, Peru, Thailand, Vietnam, Bangladesh, India, Nepal

    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.

  2. Library Resource

    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
  3. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    January, 2005
    Bangladesh, Southern Asia, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Kenya, Peru

    This paper examines how market institutions can affect links between urban and rural areas with specific emphasis on goods market integration in the national context.Traditionally, development researchers and practitioners have focused either on rural market development or on urban market development without considering the interdependencies and synergies between the two.

  4. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 1994
    Southern Asia, Africa, Bangladesh, China, Gambia, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Malawi, Philippines, Rwanda, Zambia

    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.

  5. Library Resource
    January, 2009
    Ethiopia, Africa, Indonesia

    Ethiopia supports one of the largest livestock populations in all of Africa (Alemu et al. 2008). In fact, the livestock sector accounts for 19 percent of national GDP, and as much as 40 percent of agricultural GDP (FAO 2004). At a micro level, it has been estimated that livestock supports the livelihoods of about 80 percent of the rural population (FAO 2004).

  6. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 1994
    Southern Asia, Africa, Bangladesh, China, Gambia, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Malawi, Philippines, Rwanda, Zambia

    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.

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