Agriculture
- Analysing the adaptive capacity of climate change interventions in Ethiopia, Uganda and Mozambique
- A. Ospina; R. Heeks / Centre for Development Informatics, 2011
- A more holistic and flexible development approach is required to support the agency of people adapting to climate change. Since climate change adds another layer of complexity to development challenges, interventions must, at all stag...
- 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
- 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. This study examines the effects of f...
- 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 wages, economic growth and povert...
- 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...
- 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 income and investigating how support ...
- 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, prepared for the 34th session of the...
- How Adaptive Social Protection can benefit the agricultural sector in south Asia
- A. Arnall; K. Oswald; M. Davies; T. Mitchell; C. Coirolo / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2010
- The concept of Adaptive Social Protection (ASP) refers to a series of measures which aims to build resilience of the poorest and most vulnerable people to climate change by combining elements of social protection (SP), disaster risk r...
- Journal debating pastoralism issues
- C. Kerven (ed); R. Behnke (ed) / Odessa Centre, 2010
- Open access journal aimed at providing a central forum where those concerned with pastoralism can confront each other’s ideas, data and analysis, and discuss the implications of their work. Pastoralism will encourage debate by c...
- Odessa Centre
- The Odessa Centre is a consultancy working with researchers and practitioners in the fields of pastoralism, rangeland ecology and livestock development in semi-arid areas. Long-term projects have been carried out in Libya, Botswana, Somalia, Zambia, Namibia, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. Outputs include the journal "Pastoralism: Research, Policy, Practice", available via...
- 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 wages, economic growth and povert...
- 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...
- 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 income and investigating how support ...
- 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, prepared for the 34th session of the...
- How Adaptive Social Protection can benefit the agricultural sector in south Asia
- A. Arnall; K. Oswald; M. Davies; T. Mitchell; C. Coirolo / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2010
- The concept of Adaptive Social Protection (ASP) refers to a series of measures which aims to build resilience of the poorest and most vulnerable people to climate change by combining elements of social protection (SP), disaster risk r...
- Journal debating pastoralism issues
- C. Kerven (ed); R. Behnke (ed) / Odessa Centre, 2010
- Open access journal aimed at providing a central forum where those concerned with pastoralism can confront each other’s ideas, data and analysis, and discuss the implications of their work. Pastoralism will encourage debate by c...
- Integrating climatic-disasters prevention and risk-management tools in Madagascar and Haiti
- L. Bockel; M. Thoreux; S., D. Sayagh / EASYPol, 2009
- Lack of resilience to climatic accidents seems to be one of the main reasons for the transformation of climatic accidents into environmental, economic and social disasters for rural communities. Focusing particularly on Madagasca...
- What can sustainable livelihoods approaches and pro-poor market approaches learn from each other?
- S. Johnson (ed) / Knowledge Services, IDS, 2009
- The third Sustainable Livelihoods (SL) seminar was held at the University of Bath, in the UK, in July 2009. Hosted by the Livelihoods Network, the seminar series discusses the continued relevance of sustainable livelihoods approaches ...
- Analysis on climate change impacts and the investment needed for adaptation
- G. C. Nelson; M. W. Rosegrant; J. Koo / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2009
- Climate change, together with global population and income growth, is a major threat to food security in the world. This food policy report presents research results which quantify climate change impact, assess the consequences for fo...
- Asian Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development (AJARD)
- Open access journal focusing on agriculture and rural development
- Russian Journal of Agricultural and Socio-Economic Sciences (RJOAS)
- An interdisciplinary open access journal of agriculture and socio-economic studies
- Odessa Centre
- The Odessa Centre is a consultancy working with researchers and practitioners in the fields of pastoralism, rangeland ecology and livestock development in semi-arid areas. Long-term projects have been carried out in Libya, Botswana, Somalia, Zambia, Namibia, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. Outputs include the journal "Pastoralism: Research, Policy, Practice", available via...
