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  1. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2015
    Southern Africa, Central Asia, South America, Africa, Asia, Western Africa, Eastern Africa, Southern Africa, Southern Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Central Asia, South America, Africa, Asia

    In addition to global developments and food policy changes, 2014 also saw important developments with potentially wide repercussions in individual countries and regions. This chapter offers perspectives on major food policy developments in various regions including Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, Central Asia, South Asia, East Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean.

  2. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2016
    Sub-Saharan Africa, Southern Asia, Africa, Asia, South America, Americas

    The Global Food Policy Report is IFPRI’s flagship publication. This year’s annual report examines major food policy issues, global and regional developments, and commitments made in 2015, and presents data on key food policy indicators. The report also proposes key policy options for 2016 and beyond to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. In 2015, the global community made major commitments on sustainable development and climate change.

  3. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2016
    Sub-Saharan Africa, Southern Asia, Africa, Asia, South America, Americas

    The year 2015 saw a new global commitment to sustainable development that will require a reshaping of the world’s food system. The well-being of people and the planet will depend on creation of a food system that is more efficient, inclusive, climate-smart, sustainable, nutrition- and health-driven, and business-friendly.

  4. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    December, 2016
    Africa, Asia, South America, Americas, Sub-Saharan Africa, Southern Asia, Africa, Asia, South America, Americas

    The Global Food Policy Report is IFPRI’s flagship publication. This year’s annual report examines major food policy issues, global and regional developments, and commitments made in 2015, and presents data on key food policy indicators. The report also proposes key policy options for 2016 and beyond to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. In 2015, the global community made major commitments on sustainable development and climate change.

  5. Library Resource
    May, 2015

    African governments and international
    development groups see boosting productivity on smallholder
    farms as key to reducing rural poverty and safeguarding the
    food security of farming and non-farming households.
    Prompting smallholder farmers to use more fertilizer has
    been a key tactic. Closing the productivity gap between male
    and female farmers has been another avenue toward achieving
    the same goal. The results in this paper suggest the two are

  6. Library Resource
    June, 2015

    Women comprise 50 percent of the
    agricultural labor force in Sub-Saharan Africa, but manage
    plots that are reportedly on average 20 to 30 percent less
    productive. As a source of income inequality and aggregate
    productivity loss, the country-specific magnitude and
    drivers of this gender gap are of great interest. Using
    national data from the Uganda National Panel Survey for
    2009/10 and 2010/11, the gap before controlling for

  7. Library Resource
    July, 2015

    The contribution of women to labor in
    African agriculture is regularly quoted in the range of 60
    to 80 percent. Using individual-disaggregated, plot-level
    labor input data from nationally representative household
    surveys across six Sub-Saharan African countries, this study
    estimates the average female labor share in crop production
    at 40 percent. It is slightly above 50 percent in Malawi,
    Tanzania, and Uganda, and substantially lower in Nigeria (37

  8. Library Resource
    November, 2015

    Almost a decade after large land-based
    investment for agriculture increased sharply, opinions on
    its impact continue to diverge, partly because (positive or
    negative) spillovers on neighboring smallholders have never
    been rigorously assessed. Applying methods from the urban
    literature on Mozambican data suggests that changes in the
    number and area of large farms within 25 or 50 kilometers of
    these investments raised use of improved practices, animal

  9. Library Resource
    August, 2015

    Migration is transforming rural
    economies, landscapes, and potentially, gender relations.
    Migration is one of the drivers of the so-called
    feminization of agriculture in Latin America. This
    feminization has relevance for everyone given agriculture’s
    role in regional food security, national shared prosperity,
    and household resilience to shocks. The objective of this
    study is to investigate the feminization of agriculture as

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