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Empowering drylands women
Drylands Development Centre, UNDP, 2014The Integrated Drylands Development Programme (IDDP) is a global UNDP initiative to promote sustainable development in the drylands, and advance the implementation of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification. This topic brief highlights the important role that gender plays in this context of sustainable development, in particular the role of women in the Arab States and Africa.DocumentLand reform and changes in land ownership concentration: evidence from rice-growing villages in the Philippines
Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2006Land reform has been the main policy response of government to correct the sharp inequalities in the distribution of land ownership in the Philippines. The historical records show that the process of disposal of State lands has heavily favored households with economic and political power.DocumentCARP institutional assessment in a post-2008 transition scenario: toward a new rural development architecture
Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2008The main objective of the paper is to explore possible institutional arrangements among the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP), Philippines, implementing agencies in a post-2008 transition scenario for CARP.DocumentAnalysis of the impact of changes in the prices of rice and fuel on poverty in the Philippines
Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2009This study aims to assess the impact of rising prices of rice and fuel on poverty in the Philippines. In particular, the variations in the potential effects among different group of households were analyzed using household level data.DocumentAgriculture, rural employment, and inclusive growth
Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2013At the top of the agenda of the Philippine Development Plan is inclusive growth, meaning growth that is rapid, sustained, and wide enough to matter to a broad spectrum of the population.DocumentNot so sweet, hazardous child labour, with a focus on cocoa plantations in Ivory Coast
KidsRights Foundation, 2014Ivory Coast now accounts for 35% of the world’s cocoa production. Around 900,000 farmers grow the bean, and 3.5 million people depend on it for their livelihoods. The most recent data shows that an estimated 819,921 children worked in the 2008/2009 harvest season.DocumentOptions for support to agriculture and food security under climate change
Elsevier, 2011This journal article highlights that agriculture and food security are key sectors for intervention under climate change.DocumentCarbon intensification and poverty reduction in Kenya: lessons from the Kenya agricultural carbon project
2012This paper focuses on the Kenya Agricultural Carbon Project, implemented by the NGO Vi Agroforestry, which is designing and implementing climate finance projects in the agricultural sector.DocumentTopic Guide: Stepping out of Agriculture
Evidence on Demand, 2015This Topic Guide from Evidence on Demand provides expert information on how members of smallholder households leave agriculture for better-paying businesses and jobs.DocumentImpact of the rice trade policy reforms on household welfare in the Philippines
Philippine Journal of Development, 2010The effects of rice trade policy reforms on household welfare, as indicated by changes in consumer and producer prices, are analysed in this paper using nonparametric regression and density estimation. Since many households in the Philippines are consumers and producers of rice, the net benefit ratio (NBR) was used to measure the change in household welfare given changes in prices.Pages