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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    January, 2011

    Agricultural investments made by developing countries and multilateral development banks (MDBs) have declined in recent decades. This decline is associated with a slowdown in the growth of agriculture productivity. Most development institutions have recognized the damage caused by this past neglect, in part evident in rising food prices, and renewed attention to agriculture and agribusiness is emerging. But this renewed interest will need to deliver results, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa, where the MDBs have had the least success but where the needs and opportunities are enormous.

  2. Library Resource

    A Critical Review

    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    May, 2012
    South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa

    This paper provides an overview of land reform in South Africa from 1994 to 2011, with the focus on the land redistribution. The government policies and associated implementation since 1994 have not generated expected social and economic results for a number of reasons. Even where land has been transferred, it appears to have had minimal impact on the livelihoods of beneficiaries, largely because of inappropriate project design, a lack of necessary support services and shortages of working capital, leading to widespread underutilization of land.

  3. Library Resource
    August, 2012

    The recent surge in food and fuel prices
    has prompted countries with high dependence on food imports
    to try and lock in future food supplies through direct
    investment in agricultural production in other countries.
    The price surges also led to a wave of proposals to invest
    in biofuels investments in agricultural land. While such
    investment can provide large benefits, it also carries
    considerable risks both to investors and citizens in the

  4. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Africa

    The objective of this paper is to
    determine the ability of farmers in Africa to detect climate
    change, and to ascertain how they have adapted to whatever
    climate change they believe has occurred. The paper also
    asks farmers whether they perceive any barriers to
    adaptation and attempts to determine the characteristics of
    those farmers who, despite claiming to have witnessed
    climate change, have not yet responded to it. The study is

  5. Library Resource
    April, 2013
    Bosnia and Herzegovina

    The agricultural season in Bosnia and
    Herzegovina (BH) begins earlier than in most European
    countries, shipping costs are relatively low, and land and
    labor prices are more favorable than in other southern
    European countries. As a result, the country's
    agriculture sector should be well positioned to compete on
    the export markets. With 20.6 percent of all employed in BH,
    agriculture remains an important sector for employment,

  6. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Global

    Interest in farmland is rising. And,
    given commodity price volatility, growing human and
    environmental pressures, and worries about food security,
    this interest will increase, especially in the developing
    world. One of the highest development priorities in the
    world must be to improve smallholder agricultural
    productivity, especially in Africa. Smallholder productivity
    is essential for reducing poverty and hunger, and more and

  7. Library Resource
    June, 2014
    Latin America and the Caribbean

    Yet the current situation differs from
    2007-2008 in critical respects. First, recent international
    price increases are more widespread across agricultural
    commodities than in 2008, when price spikes were led by few
    grains such as wheat and rice. Second, natural resources are
    affecting food production: land and water constraints are
    more binding than in the past and weather induced production
    shortfalls are more of a factor now than it was 2008.

  8. Library Resource
    January, 2015

    This paper uses farm panel data from
    China to examine the dynamics of land transactions, machine
    investments, and the demand for machine services. Recently,
    China's agriculture has experienced a large expansion
    of machine rentals and machine services provided by
    specialized agents, which has contributed to mechanization
    of agricultural production. The empirical results show that
    an increase in nonagricultural wage rates leads to expansion

  9. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Malawi

    This paper uses a rural household survey
    dataset collected in 2006 and 2008 to investigate the impact
    of a market-based land resettlement project in southern
    Malawi. The program provided a conditional cash and land
    transfer to poor families to relocate to larger plots of
    farm land. The average treatment effect of the program is
    estimated using a difference-in-difference matching
    technique based on propensity score matching; qualitative

  10. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    China

    Agriculture has made major contributions
    to China's economic growth and poverty reduction, but
    the literature has rarely focused on the institutional
    factors that might underpin such structural transformation
    and productivity. This paper aims to fill that gap. Drawing
    on an 8-year panel of 1,200 households in six key provinces,
    it explores the impact of government land reallocations and
    formal land-use certificates on agricultural productivity

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