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Does Ethiopia's productive safety net program improve child nutrition?

Reports & Research
December, 2014
Ethiopia
Land & Food Security
food security
We study the link between Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) and short-run nutrition outcomes among children age 5 years and younger. We use 2006 and 2010 survey data from Northern Ethiopia to estimate parameters of an exogenous switching regression. This allows us to measure the differential impacts of household characteristics on weight-for-height Z-score of children in member and non-member households in PSNP. We find that the magnitude and significance of household covariates differ in samples of children from PSNP and non-PSNP households.
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Fertilizer and sustainable intensification in Africa

Reports & Research
December, 2018
Africa
Land & Food Security
food security
food security
The paper investigates the important role of fertilizer to enhance sustainable intensification and food security in Sub-Saharan Africa based on a multi-disciplinary literature review. The review starts with a macro-perspective taking population growth, economic development and climate change into account. This is complemented with a micro-perspective summarizing findings from comprehensive micro-data in selected African countries. Agronomic, environmental and economic profitability implications of fertilizer use are reviewed.
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Food for work and diet diversity in Ethiopia

Reports & Research
December, 2017
Ethiopia
Land & Food Security
food security
We use four waves of panel data from Northern Ethiopia to investigate the link between Food for Work (FFW) participation and the diversity of food consumption and production. Food-based transfer programs have become a standard tool for addressing the problem of chronic food insecurity in developing countries. Such programs have the potential to expand diet diversity if food items provided under FFW are not part of the beneficiaries’ staple diet. By raising effective incomes, cash payments also have the potential to “crowd in” purchases of nutritionally important foods.
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Amazing maize in Malawi : input subsidies, factor productivity and land use intensification

Reports & Research
December, 2013
Malawi
Land & Food Security
Land & Investments
farming systems
land productivity
The paper uses three years of household farm plot panel data (2006-2009), covering six districts in central and southern Malawi to assess factor productivity and farming system development under the input subsidy program. All farm plots of the households were measured with GPS. Maize production intensified in this period as maize area shares of the total farm size were reduced while input use intensity and yields increased. Yields of improved maize were significantly (+323 kg/ha) higher than for local maize.
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Links between tenure security and food security in poor agrarian economies : causal linkages and policy implications

Reports & Research
December, 2016
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Socio-Economic & Institutional Context
food security
migration
tenure security
Population growth leads to growing land scarcity and landlessness in poor agrarian economies. Many of these also face severe climate risks that may increase in the future. Tenure security is important for food security in such countries and at the same time threatened by social instability that further accelerate rural-urban and international migration. Provision of secure property rights with low-cost methods that create investment incentives can lead to land use intensification and improved food security.
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Policies for improved food security : the roles of land tenure policies and land markets

Reports & Research
December, 2017
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land & Investments
food security
land governance
land markets
land tenure
This chapter is written for the European Commission for a book to be published by Springer on The Role of Smallholder Farms in Food and Nutrition Security. The author takes full responsibility for the content.
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Country Partnership Strategy: Tajikistan, 2016–2020

Sector Assessment (Summary): Agriculture And Natural Resources

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2016
Tajikistan
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
Land Stakeholders & Institutions
Land, Climate Change & Environment
food security
land reform
climate change
natural disasters
arable land
agriculture
natural resources
natural resources management
water management
migration
women
Tajikistan’s population is predominantly rural and largely dependent on agriculture. Agriculture accounts for a quarter of Tajikistan’s gross domestic product and export revenues, 39% of tax revenues, and half of total employment. Given the widespread migration of male Tajik workers overseas, women constitute the majority of employees (accounting for 53% of the economically active population in agriculture). Arable land is in short supply at 0.15 hectares (ha) per capita (rising to 0.20 ha per capita for the rural population).
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CULTIVATING GENDER INSENSITIVE LAND TENURE REFORMS AND HARVESTING FOOD INSECURITY IN CAMEROON, SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

Vol 3, No 1: January 2020, Special Issue 1 on Land Policy in Africa

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2020
Africa
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
Land Stakeholders & Institutions
Socio-Economic & Institutional Context
food security
land access
land tenure
tenure security
women
Effective reform pathways for addressing women’s access to land and tenure security in Africa are yet to be found despite their role in feeding the population. With the adoption of the AU Declaration on Land Issues and Challenges in Africa (2009) and the launch of the African Land Policy Centre (2017), hopes were high that existing precarious women’s access to land, tenure and food security might be transformed to opportunities. Prevailing discourses, however, still advocate for land reforms attuned to gender equality with a neo-classical chord.
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Gender Inequality and Climate Change Adaptation Strategies for Food Security in Tanzania

Vol 3, No 3: September 2020

Peer-reviewed publication
September, 2020
Tanzania
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
Land, Climate Change & Environment
gender equity
food security
climate change
land ownership
This paper assessed gender inequality in household resources, particularly land ownership, division of labour and decision making as regards climate change adaptation strategies for household food security. The results show that gender inequality exists among the pastoralists in terms of household division of labour, ownership of resources and decision-making such that women do not control important productive resources such as land and livestock which make them more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and less able to adapt to it.
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The Influences of Gendered Customary Land Tenure System on Food Security in Nandom District, Ghana

Vol 2, No 1: March 2019, Special Issue on Women&Land

Peer-reviewed publication
March, 2019
Ghana
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
Land Stakeholders & Institutions
Socio-Economic & Institutional Context
food security
land tenure
customary tenure
households
women
Food insecurity has been a major global development concern. Hence, SDG Two seeks to achieve Zero Hunger by 2030. The situation is severe in sub-Saharan Africa, where customary practices deprive women of land ownership and limit their access rights. This paper explores the influences of a gendered land tenure system on food security in Nandom District, adapting conditional assessment modules defined by USDA and FAO. With a list of households categorized under headship, 30 respondents were proportionally selected from each of the four study communities.