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Cost implications of agricultural land degradation in Ghana

An economywide, multimarket model assessment

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2007
Western Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa, Ghana
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land degradation
sustainable land management
poverty
"An economywide, multimarket model is constructed for Ghana and the effects of agricultural soil erosion on crop yields are explicitly modeled at the subnational regional level for eight main staple crops. The model is used to evaluate the aggregate economic costs of soil erosion by taking into account economywide linkages between production and consumption, across sectors and agricultural subsectors... Sustainable land management (SLM) is the key to reducing agricultural soil loss.
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2013 Global hunger index : The challenge of hunger : Building resilience to achieve food and nutrition security

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2013
Caribbean, Northern Africa, Eastern Africa, Eastern Asia, Southern Asia, Eastern Europe, Southern Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa, Asia
Land & Food Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
food security
youth
land degradation
natural resources management
sustainable development
climate change
environment
water management
natural disasters
land policies
sustainable land management
The 2013 Global Hunger Index (GHI) report-the eighth in an annual series- presents a multidimensional measure of national, regional, and global hunger. It shows that the world has made some progress in reducing hunger since 1990, but still has far to go. The 2013 GHI report focuses on resilience in theory and in practice. The relief and development communities have long struggled to understand why some people fare better than others when confronting stresses or shocks.
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2013 Welthunger-Index : Herausforderung Hunger : Widerstandsfähigkeit stärken Ernährung sichern

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2013
Caribbean, Northern Africa, Eastern Africa, Eastern Asia, Southern Asia, Eastern Europe, Southern Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa, Asia
Land & Food Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
food security
youth
land degradation
natural resources management
sustainable development
climate change
environment
water management
natural disasters
land policies
sustainable land management
Der Bericht zum Welthunger-Index 2013 – der achte in einer jährlich erscheinenden Serie – stellt die Entwicklung des weltweiten, regionalen und nationalen Hungers mittels eines mehrdimensionalen Indexwertes dar. Er zeigt, dass die Weltgemeinschaft bei der Bekämpfung des Hungers seit 1990 gewisse Fortschritte gemacht hat, dass aber noch viel zu tun ist.
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Disasters: Déjà vu in the Horn of Africa

Peer-reviewed publication
Journal Articles & Books
December, 2012
Asia, Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Africa
Land & Food Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
food security
climate change
environment
land degradation
natural disasters
sustainable land management
land governance
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Using natural areas and empowering women to buffer food security and nutrition from climate shocks: Evidence from Ghana, Zambia, and Bangladesh

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2018
Southern Africa, Western Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Southern Asia, Asia, Africa, Bangladesh, Ghana, Zambia
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
environment
climate change
natural disasters
sustainable land management
food security
natural resources management
women
As climate change makes precipitation shocks more common, policymakers are becoming increasingly interested in protecting food systems and nutrition outcomes from the damaging effects of droughts and floods (Wheeler and von Braun, 2013). Increasing the resilience of nutrition and food security outcomes is especially critical throughout agrarian parts of the developing world, where human subsistence and well-being are directly affected by local rainfall.
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Can contract farming in organic basmati rice be a boon to smallholders? Evidence from India

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2018
Southern Asia, Asia, India
contract farming
farmers
sustainable land management
agriculture
Demand for organic basmati rice (OBR), both at home and abroad, coupled with policy reforms in India have given rise to contract farming (CF) production in that nation. OBR production, however, is highly susceptible to weather and pest risks. This study investigates the impact of smallholders’ perceived production risks on their adoption of CF in OBR farming. We also assess the impact of CF in OBR production on yields, prices received, and the livelihood of OBR producers.
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The role of the private sector in food system resilience: Lessons from Cambodia

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2018
South-Eastern Asia, Asia, Cambodia
Land, Climate Change & Environment
natural disasters
sustainable land management
contract farming
farmers
sustainable development
This paper assesses the role of the private sector by using the case study of Cambodia to learn specific lessons for increasing the resilience of food systems in the developing world. In order to develop a sustainable and lasting impact, it is imperative that both market actors and private actors be involved in addressing the new challenges facing vulnerable food systems.
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Cropland restoration as an essential component to the forest landscape restoration approach - Global effects of widescale adoption

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2017
Forest Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
forestry
forest management plans
land management
farmland
farming systems
land degradation
deforestation
sustainable land management
agriculture
Existing approaches and methodologies that investigate effects of land degradation on food security vary greatly. Although a relatively rich body of literature that investigates localized experiences, geophysical and socioeconomic drivers of land degradation, and the costs and benefits of avoiding land degradation already exists, less rigorously explored are the global effects of restoring degraded landscapes.
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Implications of wide-scale cropland restoration: A crucial element of the forest landscape restoration approach

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2017
Land & Food Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
farmland
youth
food security
land degradation
deforestation
forestry
sustainable land management
forest management plans
agriculture
The results of this study reveal that the full inclusion of crop production in the forest landscape restoration approach could produce largescale,
worldwide benefits for food security and therefore facilitate a wide uptake of restoration practices and the implementation of large
restoration projects. The positive impacts are multifaceted and significant in size: a reduction in malnourished children ranging from three
to six million; a reduced number of people at risk of hunger, estimated to be between 70 and 151 million; reduced pressure for expansion
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Regional developments [In 2016 Global Food Policy Report]

Peer-reviewed publication
Journal Articles & Books
December, 2016
Sub-Saharan Africa, Southern Asia, Africa, Asia, South America, Americas
Land Conflicts
Land & Food Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
agriculture
research
rural development
agricultural and rural legislation
poverty
land conflicts
food security
climate change
environment
land degradation
land management
water management
farmers
natural disasters
sustainable land management
In addition to global events and food policy changes, 2015 also saw important developments with potentially wide repercussions in individual countries and regions. This chapter offers perspectives on major food policy developments across the major regions: Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, Central Asia, South Asia, East Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean.