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2014 Global hunger index by severity

Multimedia
December, 2014
Southern Asia, Northern Africa, Eastern Africa, Western Africa, Caribbean, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa, Asia, South America, India
Land & Food Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
food security
youth
natural resources management
poverty
property rights
farmers
land
land degradation
climate change
environment
agricultural and rural legislation
water management
waste (abuse)
natural disasters
sustainable land management
The Global Hunger Index (GHI) is based on three equally weighted indicators: > Undernourishment: the proportion of undernourished people as a percentage of the population (reflecting the share of the population with insufficient caloric intake); > Child underweight: the proportion of children younger than age five who are underweight (that is, have low weight for their age, reflecting wasting, stunted growth, or both), which is one indicator of child undernutrition; and > Child mortality: the mortality rate of children younger than age five (partially reflecting the fat
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2014 Global hunger index: The challenge of hidden hunger

Peer-reviewed publication
Journal Articles & Books
December, 2014
Southern Asia, Northern Africa, Eastern Africa, Western Africa, Eastern Europe, Caribbean, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa, Asia, South America, India
Land & Food Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
food security
youth
natural resources management
poverty
property rights
farmers
land
land degradation
climate change
environment
agricultural and rural legislation
water management
waste (abuse)
natural disasters
sustainable land management
With one more year before the 2015 deadline for achieving the Millennium Development Goals, the 2014 Global Hunger Index report offers a multifaceted overview of global hunger that brings new insights to the global debate on where to focus efforts in the fight against hunger and malnutrition. The state of hunger in developing countries as a group has improved since 1990, falling by 39 percent, according to the 2014 GHI.
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Agricultural commercialization, land expansion, and homegrown land-scale farmers: Insights from Ghana

Reports & Research
January, 2013
Ghana
land
property
farmers
scale
The past decade has seen several African countries increasing their agricultural growth, a trend largely underpinned by increases in land area cultivated instead of productivity increases. Meanwhile, scholars debate whether Africa should pursue a strategy of large-scale or smallholder farms, paying little attention to a special group of smallholder farmers who have transitioned to become medium- and large-scale farmers. This study, therefore, begins to analyze this group of farmers, using qualitative data from in-depth interviews and focus group discussions in Ghana.
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Are wealth transfers biased against girls?: Gender differences in land inheritance and schooling investment in Ghana's western region

Policy Papers & Briefs
January, 2004
Ghana, Western Africa
Land & Gender
land rights
land
This study attempts to analyse changing patterns of land transfer and ownership, as well as school investments by gender over three generations in customary land areas of Ghana's Western Region. Traditional inheritance rules deny land ownership rights to women. Yet the increase in the demand for women's labour due to the expansion of labour intensive cocoa cultivation has created incentives for husbands to give their wives and children land. Through this and other gift mechanisms, women have increasingly acquired land, thereby reducing the gender gap in land ownership.
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Economics of land degradation

The costs of action versus inaction

Peer-reviewed publication
Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2011
Sub-Saharan Africa, Central Asia, Southern Asia, South America, Africa, Asia, Niger, Kenya, Uzbekistan, India, Cameroon, Peru
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land & Food Security
land degradation
land
food security
land valuation
environment
In recent years, prices of agricultural land have increased quickly, actually doubling and tripling in many parts of the world. This land value reassessment has been prompted by rising crop prices and perceived land scarcity. But even as the value of land rises, land degradation continues and investments to prevent it are lagging. Awareness of environmental risks has moved to the forefront of global consciousness during the past 25 years.
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Efficiency and productivity differential effects of land certification program in Ethiopia: Quasi-experimental evidence from Tigray

January, 2014
Ethiopia, Eastern Africa
land
property
Taking advantage of a unique quasi-experi-mental survey design, this study analyzes the productivity impacts of the Ethiopian land certification program by identify-ing how the investment effects (technological gains) would measure up against the benefits from any improvements in input use intensity (technical efficiency).
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Efficiency and productivity differential effects of land certification program in Ethiopia : Quasi-experimental evidence from Tigray

Reports & Research
January, 2013
Ethiopia, Eastern Africa
land
property
Taking advantage of a unique quasi-experimental survey design, this study analyzes the productivity impacts of the Ethiopian land certification program by identifying how the investment effects (technological gains) would measure up against the benefits from any improvements in input use intensity (technical efficiency).
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Farming Smarter

the uphill push toward conservation agriculture

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2012
Southern Asia, Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Africa, Western Africa, South-Eastern Asia, Guatemala, Indonesia, China, Nigeria, Yemen
Land & Gender
Land & Food Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
agriculture
sustainable land management
women
rural development
food security
land
agroforestry systems
farmers
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Implications of community-based legal aid regulation on women’s land rights

January, 2014
Tanzania
Land & Gender
land rights
land
women
land tenure
Improving women’s ability to securely access land is recognised as an effective means to increase gender equality and advance other key social and economic development goals. Despite progressive laws in many African countries, gender disparities commonly persist in women’s access and ownership of land.
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Indice Globale della Fame 2014: la sfida della fame nascosta

Peer-reviewed publication
Journal Articles & Books
December, 2014
Southern Asia, Northern Africa, Eastern Africa, Western Africa, Eastern Europe, Caribbean, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa, Asia, South America, India
Land & Food Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
food security
youth
natural resources management
poverty
property rights
farmers
land
land degradation
climate change
environment
agricultural and rural legislation
water management
waste (abuse)
natural disasters
sustainable land management
A un anno dalla scadenza per il raggiungimento degli Obiettivi di Sviluppo del Millennio, fissata nel 2015, l’Indice Globale della Fame 2014 offre una prospettiva articolata del problema della fame nel mondo, che porta nuovi spunti al dibattito mondiale rispetto a dove concentrare gli sforzi nella lotta contro la fame e la malnutrizione. Secondo il GHI 2014, lo stato della fame nei Paesi in via di sviluppo è complessivamente migliorato in confronto al 1990, con un calo del 39%.