The food price crisis has led to assumptions that food price rises are due to inadequate food production, and that such food insecurity is linked to seed insecurity. Hence, in response to high food prices, seed resources worth hundreds of millions of US dollars are being shipped into vulnerable f...
McGrath, S.
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Sperling, L.
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[The links between food security and seed security and seed security : facts and fiction that guide response]
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The links between food security and seed security and seed security : facts and fiction that guide response
Irrigated agriculture in Jordan's highlands relies on overexploited groundwater. Drops in water tables and water quality, but also tougher policy measures by the government, threaten the sustainability of this activity which has long thrived on lax law enforcement and cheap desert land. This pape...
Naber, M.A.
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Molle, Francois
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[Water and sand: is groundwater-based farming in Jordan's desert sustainable?]
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Water and sand: is groundwater-based farming in Jordan's desert sustainable?
We estimated household income diversification in settlement types of the poorest provinces in South Africa – the Eastern Cape, Limpopo and KwaZulu-Natal. We obtained data from the 2010/2011 Income and Expenditure Survey from Statistics South Africa and Wave 3 data from the National Income Dynamic...
Mathebula, J.
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Jonas, S.
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Nhemachena, Charles
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[Estimation of household income diversification in South Africa: a case study of three provinces]
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Estimation of household income diversification in South Africa: a case study of three provinces
Assesses the economic impact of bullock traction technology on the farming systems in northern Ghana. Compares the technical and economic aspects of the hand-hoe and bullock traction technology.
Panin, A.
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[The use of bullock traction technology for crop cultivation in northern Ghana: An empirical economic analysis]
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The use of bullock traction technology for crop cultivation in northern Ghana: An empirical economic analysis
Hydropower development with concomitant changes in water and land regimes often results in livelihood transformation of affected people, entailing changes in intra-household decision-making upon which livelihood strategies are based. Economic factors underlying gender dimensions of household deci...
Weeratunge, N.
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Joffre, Olivier M.
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Senaratna Sellamuttu, Sonali
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Bouahom, B.
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Keophoxay, Anousith
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[Gender and household decision-making in a Lao village: implications for livelihoods in hydropower development]
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Gender and household decision-making in a Lao village: implications for livelihoods in hydropower development
The Eastern Gangetic Plains of South Asia represents a peripheral region far from the centers of global capitalist production, and this is all the more apparent in Mithilanchal, a cultural domain spanning the Nepal/Bihar border. The agrarian structure can be considered ‘semi-feudal’ in character,...
Sugden, Fraser
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[A mode of production flux: the transformation and reproduction of rural class relations in lowland Nepal and North Bihar]
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A mode of production flux: the transformation and reproduction of rural class relations in lowland Nepal and North Bihar
Tarawali, G.
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Mohamed-Saleem, M.A.
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Kaufmann, Ralph R. von
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[Comparison of labour requirements for cropping maize on land previously used for stylosanthes fodder banks and on adjacent fallows in the sub-humid zone of Nigeria]
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Comparison of labour requirements for cropping maize on land previously used for stylosanthes fodder banks and on adjacent fallows in the sub-humid zone of Nigeria
Koizumi, M
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Mamung, D
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Levang, P.
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[Hunter-gatherers' culture, a major hindrance to a settled agricultural life: The case of the Penan Benalui of East Kalimantan]
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Hunter-gatherers' culture, a major hindrance to a settled agricultural life: The case of the Penan Benalui of East Kalimantan
This article explores empirical evidence on the relationship between agricultural transformation, ownership structure of agribusinesses, and employment creation in Ethiopia. It draws on secondary data to present evidence of Ethiopia’s agricultural transformation, employment trends, and the agribu...