Livelihoods and agriculture
Seventy five per cent of the poor live in rural areas, dependent on agriculture and natural resources for their livelihoods. Designing an appropriate policy environment for agriculture requires in-depth knowledge of the livelihood strategies of rural households and consideration of ways to protect and promote them. More…
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- Access to financial, physical and social capital assets is a prerequisite to reduce Nigerian rural poverty
- ( J.O. LAWAL;B.T. OMONONA;O.D. OYINLEYE / AgEcon Search , 2011)
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The eradication of poverty in rural Nigeria remains a hard challenge for the country to overcome despite the various poverty eradication programmes implementation at different levels of government....
- Malawian farmers' willingness to allocate funds for input purchase at harvest time
- ( S.T. Holden (ed);R. Lunduka (ed) / Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford , 2011)
- Malawi has implemented a large-scale agricultural input subsidy program since 2005 after a period with severe food shortages and the program has contributed to increased food availability, higher real...
- Localised solutions are essential in global land markets
- ( T.W. Hertel / AgEcon Search , 2010)
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The number of people which the world must feed is expected to increase by 50% during the first half of this century, but will the world’s agricultural resource base be up to the task of meeti...
- Land multi-functionality is still unrecognised in rural Macedonia
- ( K. Todorov;M. Vittuari / , 2010)
- Agriculture is still the basic economic activity in rural Macedonia. This paper aims at assessing the place that agriculture has in the country's overall economy, analysing the basic structure and inc...
- Improving employment prospects for the young in the MENA region
- ( International Fund for Agricultural Development , 2011)
- The Near East and North Africa (NENA) region presents the largest cohort of youth after sub-Saharan Africa, with young people making up 20 per cent of the total population in NENA. Ths paper, pr...
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