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   Can a Market-Assisted Land Redistribution Program Improve the Lives of the Poor? Evidence from Malawi

   March, 2012

   Malawi

   agrarian structure

   agriculture

   expropriation

   farmers

   farmland

   food security

   land distribution

   land ownership

   land policies

   land reform

   land titling

   landowners

   property rights

   rural development

   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
   

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   Improving Agricultural Productivity and Market Efficiency in Latin America and the Caribbean : How ICTs Can Make a Difference?

   April, 2014

   Latin America and the Caribbean

   climate change

   deforestation

   farmers

   farmland

   fisheries

   food security

   land distribution

   land ownership

   land rights

   natural disasters

   rural areas

   rural development

   rural population

   Agricultural growth rates in the Latin
   America and the Caribbean (LAC) region have been much slower
   than the rest of the developing world. In the regions of
   East Asia, South Asia and Middle East and North Africa, the
   annual growth of agricultural Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
   in 1980-2004 exceeded 3 percent, while growth in Sub-
   Saharan Africa averaged almost 3 percent. This paper
   attempts to present an overview of the agricultural sector
   

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   Rising Global Interest in Farmland : Can it Yield Sustainable and Equitable Benefits?

   March, 2012

   Global

   Urban Tenure

   Land & Investments

   agriculture

   capacity development

   climate change

   common property

   deforestation

   farmers

   farming systems

   farmland

   fisheries

   food security

   forest land

   forestry

   land consolidation

   land markets

   land reform

   land rent

   land rights

   land tenure

   land transfers

   land use

   land-use planning

   pastoralists

   property rights

   rural development

   rural population

   sustainable development

   sustainable land management

   urbanization

   zoning

   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
   

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   Distributional Implications of Climate Change in India

   March, 2012

   India

   climate change

   farmers

   farmland

   food security

   land distribution

   land ownership

   rural areas

   rural population

   Global warming is expected to heavily
   impact agriculture, the dominant source of livelihood for
   the world's poor. Yet, little is known about the
   distributional implications of climate change at the
   sub-national level. Using a simple comparative statics
   framework, this paper analyzes how changes in the prices of
   land, labor, and food induced by modest temperature
   increases over the next three decades will affect
   

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   Structural Transformation of Small Farms in Moldova

   Implications for Poverty Reduction and Shared Prosperity

   Reports & Research

   Training Resources & Tools

   December, 2016

   Moldova, Europe, Central Asia

   Land & Food Security

   land reform

   rural population

   land rights

   land ownership

   farmers

   land distribution

   farmland

   food security

   transaction costs

   rural areas

   poverty

   rural development

   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.