Rural development
- Enhanced Knowledge Management: knowledge centers for extension communication and agriculture development in Ethiopia
- A. Shiferaw; E. Sehai; D. Hoekstra; A. Getachew / IGI Global, 2013
- There is increasing evidence on the benefits of knowledge management (KM) to enable organisations to be more competitive, achieve higher efficiency and increase output. The Ethiopian government has embarked on a major initia...
- Smallholder agriculture’s contribution to better nutrition
- S. Wiggins; S. Keats / Overseas Development Institute, 2013
- Commissioned by the UK Hunger Alliance for the June 2013 'Hunger Summit' this report asks "How can smallholder agriculture contribute to improving food security and reducing under-nutrition?" Potentially, smallholder agricultur...
- Non-farm sector is the most important area for rural employment – evidence from India
- A.D. Foster / Asian Development Bank, 2011
- Despite increasing urbanisation in Asia countries, a large fraction of Asia’s poor remain in rural areas. This paper examines the potential for sector-specific productivity growth, human capital, credit markets, and infrastructu...
- Understanding past and future impacts of climate change in agriculture: implications for adaptation planning
- Adapting to Climate Change in China, 2012
- Climate change poses a serious risk to food security and agriculture in China. Agriculture is of critical importance to China, because 54 per cent of the country’s population lives in rural areas. This policy brief outlines the ...
- Analysis of climate change impacts on coffee, cocoa and basic grains value chains in northern Honduras
- Instituto de Estudios del Hambre (Institute of Hunger Studies), 2013
- This study examines, applying future climate local scenarios, climate change impacts in northern Honduras and makes recommendations to strengthen the resilience of the International Fund for Agricultural Development’s (IFAD) &ls...
- Rural households in a changing climate
- J. E. Baez; D. Kronick; A. D. Mason / World Bank, 2013
- This World Bank policy research working paper investigates household-level strategies for adapting to climate change in rural settings, looking particularly at the adaptive capacity of poor rural households – a subject the autho...
- Russian Journal of Agricultural and Socio-Economic Sciences (RJOAS)
- An interdisciplinary open access journal of agriculture and socio-economic studies
- Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR)
- Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR) helps rural people in India to alleviate poverty through participatory watershed development and management.
- A report focusing on food security and human development in Africa
- P. Conceição (ed); R. Fuentes-Nieva (ed); S. Levine (ed) / United Nations Development Programme, 2012
- Due to misguided policies, weak institutions and failing markets, sub-Saharan Africa has millions of hungry and malnourished people. This first Africa Human Development Report 2012 seeks to look beyond direct causes of food insecurity...
- Discrimination and food rights
- UN Human Rights Council, 2010
- This study on discrimination in the context of the right to food was produced for the fourth session of the Advisory Committee of the UN Human Rights Council held in February 2010. The study covers discrimination in terms of regi...
- Enhanced Knowledge Management: knowledge centers for extension communication and agriculture development in Ethiopia
- A. Shiferaw; E. Sehai; D. Hoekstra; A. Getachew / IGI Global, 2013
- There is increasing evidence on the benefits of knowledge management (KM) to enable organisations to be more competitive, achieve higher efficiency and increase output. The Ethiopian government has embarked on a major initia...
- Smallholder agriculture’s contribution to better nutrition
- S. Wiggins; S. Keats / Overseas Development Institute, 2013
- Commissioned by the UK Hunger Alliance for the June 2013 'Hunger Summit' this report asks "How can smallholder agriculture contribute to improving food security and reducing under-nutrition?" Potentially, smallholder agricultur...
- Non-farm sector is the most important area for rural employment – evidence from India
- A.D. Foster / Asian Development Bank, 2011
- Despite increasing urbanisation in Asia countries, a large fraction of Asia’s poor remain in rural areas. This paper examines the potential for sector-specific productivity growth, human capital, credit markets, and infrastructu...
- Understanding past and future impacts of climate change in agriculture: implications for adaptation planning
- Adapting to Climate Change in China, 2012
- Climate change poses a serious risk to food security and agriculture in China. Agriculture is of critical importance to China, because 54 per cent of the country’s population lives in rural areas. This policy brief outlines the ...
- Analysis of climate change impacts on coffee, cocoa and basic grains value chains in northern Honduras
- Instituto de Estudios del Hambre (Institute of Hunger Studies), 2013
- This study examines, applying future climate local scenarios, climate change impacts in northern Honduras and makes recommendations to strengthen the resilience of the International Fund for Agricultural Development’s (IFAD) &ls...
- Rural households in a changing climate
- J. E. Baez; D. Kronick; A. D. Mason / World Bank, 2013
- This World Bank policy research working paper investigates household-level strategies for adapting to climate change in rural settings, looking particularly at the adaptive capacity of poor rural households – a subject the autho...
- A report focusing on food security and human development in Africa
- P. Conceição (ed); R. Fuentes-Nieva (ed); S. Levine (ed) / United Nations Development Programme, 2012
- Due to misguided policies, weak institutions and failing markets, sub-Saharan Africa has millions of hungry and malnourished people. This first Africa Human Development Report 2012 seeks to look beyond direct causes of food insecurity...
- Discrimination and food rights
- UN Human Rights Council, 2010
- This study on discrimination in the context of the right to food was produced for the fourth session of the Advisory Committee of the UN Human Rights Council held in February 2010. The study covers discrimination in terms of regi...
- Guidebook on the technologies and options for adapting to climate change in the agriculture sector
- X. Zhu (ed); R. Clements; J. Haggar / United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2011
- The agriculture sector faces the challenge of providing adequate food to a growing world population. There is limited scope to expand arable land, and unpredictable weather, floods, and other disastrous events make food production eve...
- Localised solutions are essential in global land markets
- T.W. Hertel / AgEcon Search, 2010
- 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 meeting the diverse demands being placed o...
- Russian Journal of Agricultural and Socio-Economic Sciences (RJOAS)
- An interdisciplinary open access journal of agriculture and socio-economic studies
- Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR)
- Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR) helps rural people in India to alleviate poverty through participatory watershed development and management.
- Centre for Rural Economy, Newcastle University, UK (CRE)
- Rural development research
- Rural Reconstruction Nepal
- Integrated community development programmes in Nepal
