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  1. Library Resource
    January, 2008
    Nepal, Mauritania, Mali, China, Uzbekistan, India, Chad, Eastern Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Southern Asia

    Across vast areas of the world, human activity has degraded once fertile and productive land. Deforestation, overgrazing, continuous farming and poor irrigation practices have affected almost 2 billion hectares worldwide, threatening the health and livelihoods of over one billion people. In this edition of New Agriculturist, a collection of articles explores some of the approaches and policies that can help to successfully rehabilitate degraded land.

  2. Library Resource

    Implications for Poverty Reduction and Shared Prosperity

    Reports & Research
    Training Resources & Tools
    December, 2016
    Moldova, Europe, Central Asia

    The agricultural and food production sector plays a key role in fighting poverty and food insecurity in Moldova, but is facing critical challenges to modernize and integrate into the international market. This paper focuses on smallholder farms, which make up 95 percent of all farms, and explores their potential for growth and the poverty links. Findings reveal that structural change is slow and smallholder farm growth in Moldova is an exception, not the rule.

  3. Library Resource
    July, 2014
    Belarus

    Productivity in Belarus'
    agricultural sector has improved considerably, but large
    parts of crop and livestock production are not
    internationally competitive. The state's regulatory and
    fiscal support system for agriculture has been instrumental
    in improving the sector's performance. But the massive
    distortions to agricultural incentives it creates to prevent
    the sector from reaching its full potential. And the high

  4. Library Resource
    August, 2014
    Ukraine

    The agri-food sector is an important
    part of the Ukrainian economy. Agriculture could make an
    even larger contribution to economic growth and the vitality
    of rural areas in Ukraine than is currently the case.
    Ukraine has the agro-climatic potential to be a major player
    on world agricultural markets. Agricultural competitiveness
    in Ukraine also suffers from inadequate systems to test and
    document food product quality and food safety.

  5. Library Resource
    September, 2013
    Global, Ukraine

    With farms cultivating tens or hundreds
    of thousands of hectares, Ukraine is often used to
    demonstrate the existence of economies of scale in modern
    grain production. Panel data analysis for all the
    country's farms with more than 200 hectares in
    2001-2011 suggests that higher yields and profits are due to
    unobserved factors at rayon (district) and farm level rather
    than economies of scale. Productivity growth was driven not

  6. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    April, 2013
    Asia, Central Asia, Europe, Eastern Europe

    This volume presents a synthesis of the multi-country collaborative program of analytical and advisory activities titled reducing vulnerability to climate change in European and Central Asian (ECA) agricultural systems. Climate change and its impacts on agricultural systems and rural economies are already evident throughout the ECA region. Adaptation measures now in use in the region-largely piecemeal efforts-would be insufficient to prevent impacts on agricultural production over the coming decades.

  7. Library Resource
    October, 2013
    Moldova

    Changes in climate and their impact on agricultural systems and rural economies are already evident throughout Europe and Central Asia (ECA). Adaptation measures now in use in Moldova, largely piecemeal efforts, will be insufficient to prevent impacts on agricultural production over the coming decades. There is growing interest at country and development partner levels to have a better understanding of the exposure, sensitivities, and impacts of climate change at farm level, and to develop and prioritize adaptation measures to mitigate the adverse consequences.

  8. Library Resource
    December, 2014
    Ukraine

    Ukraine is renowned as the breadbasket
    of Europe thanks to its black soils ( Chernozem black
    because of the high organic matter content) which offer
    exceptional agronomic conditions. One-third of the worldwide
    stock of the fertile black soils, which cover more than half
    of Ukraine s arable land, a large variety of climatic zones,
    and favourable temperature and moisture regimes, offers
    attractive conditions for the production of a large range of

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