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  1. Library Resource
    August, 2014
    Nigeria

    The Nigerian labor force, like that of
    many countries in Africa, is heavily concentrated in
    agriculture. According to World Bank reports, the
    agricultural sector in Nigeria grew by about 6.8 percent
    annually from 2005-2009. This report focuses on the
    characteristics of the agricultural sector and rural
    households in Nigeria, and their implications for poverty.
    This report examines the relationships using nationally

  2. Library Resource
    December, 2014
    Ukraine

    Ukraine is renowned as the breadbasket
    of Europe thanks to its black soils ( Chernozem black
    because of the high organic matter content) which offer
    exceptional agronomic conditions. One-third of the worldwide
    stock of the fertile black soils, which cover more than half
    of Ukraine s arable land, a large variety of climatic zones,
    and favourable temperature and moisture regimes, offers
    attractive conditions for the production of a large range of

  3. Library Resource
    October, 2014

    This booklet offers advice for
    farmers and extension workers interested in using
    conservation agriculture techniques to boost crop yields,
    soil quality and water retention. These practices represent
    some of the many ways we can become more climate smart,
    which is essential if we are to sustainably produce more
    food on less land to feed our growing planet.

  4. Library Resource
    December, 2014

    The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
    (MEA), The Economics of Ecosystems & Biodiversity study
    (TEEB) and the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity
    and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) provide a comprehensive and
    useful framework to understand human dependence on ecosystem
    services and how best to protect these services in
    perpetuity. In these three authoritative studies, payment
    for ecosystem services (PES) is listed as one of the

  5. Library Resource
    June, 2015
    Botswana

    This Botswana Agriculture Public
    Expenditure Review (AgPER) is one of a series of similar
    studies undertaken in over a dozen countries in sub-Saharan
    Africa under the framework of a program coordinated by
    CAADP, supported by the Bill Melinda Gates Foundation and
    the CAADP Multi-Donor Trust Fund, and implemented by the
    World Bank. The AgPER presents data about actual expenditure
    for the period 2000 to 2013, with an outlook on the

  6. Library Resource
    March, 2016
    Global

    Rice is the world’s most heavily
    consumed staple crop. Its production requires enormous
    volumes of water and emits large quantities of atmospheric
    methane, a greenhouse gas some many times more powerful than
    carbon dioxide - particularly during a medium term period of
    about seven years. In a global context of growing
    population, increasingly scarce water resources, and climate
    change, more productive, sustainable, and efficient rice

  7. Library Resource
    June, 2012

    An extensive review of literature on the
    determinants of adoption and impacts of land management
    technologies in the Ethiopian highlands was undertaken to
    guide policy makers and development agencies in crafting
    programs and policies that can better and more effectively
    address land degradation in Ethiopia. Several
    generalizations emerge from the review: 1) the profitability
    of land management technologies is a very important factor

  8. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Ethiopia

    This paper reviews past studies on the
    costs of land degradation in Ethiopia, with a view to
    drawing implications for policies, programs, and future
    research on sustainable land management (SLM). Given the
    wide range of methods and assumptions used in the studies,
    their findings concerning annual costs of land degradation
    relative to agricultural gross domestic product (AGDP) are
    of remarkably similar magnitude. The minimum estimated

  9. Library Resource
    June, 2014
    Philippines

    The goal of this report is to take stock
    of the existing evidence on the impact of the Comprehensive
    Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) on poverty, to examine the
    current challenges that an extension of CARP would face, and
    to suggest directions toward achieving progress on land
    reform given the financial and policy constraints faced by
    the program. The report starts by examining the nature and
    relevance of the challenges that an extension of the land

  10. Library Resource
    August, 2012

    Ensuring food security under changing
    climate conditions is one of the major challenges of our
    era. Agriculture must not only become increasingly
    productive, but must also adapt to climate change while
    reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Soil carbon
    sequestration, the process by which atmospheric carbon
    dioxide is taken up by plants through photosynthesis and
    stored as carbon in biomass and soils, can support these

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