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Searching with a thematic focus on Livelihoods, Livelihoods Agriculture in China

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  Assessing the impact of farmer field schools on fertilizer use in China

  International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2014

  In China, a major agricultural challenge is the suboptimal use of fertilizer and the environmental effects associated with overuse. The Chinese Ministry of Agriculture is addressing this problem by instituting farmer field schools (FFS), but this initiative has not been rigorously evaluated.
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  A randomized evaluation of the effects of an agricultural insurance program on rural households’ behavior: evidence from China

  International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2014

  The provision of weather insurance is a potential way of shielding farmers from weather related shocks and reducing poverty. However, the use of weather insurance is not widespread in many countries. In China, even with a government subsidy of 70 per cent, the take-up of weather insurance is quite low.
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  Achieving food security in the face of climate change: final report from the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change

  Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2012

  This report, released by the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change, identifies a set of clear actions to be undertaken by key stakeholders to achieve food security in the context of climate change.
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  Pastoralism – research, policy and practice

  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.
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  Using the sustainable livelihoods framework to understand agro-pastoralist livelihoods in NW Yunnan

  International Development Research Centre, 2003

  What factors frame the relationship between agriculture and livestock in NW Yunnan? How can the livelihoods approach help design interventions in support of agro-pastoralists? This paper presents an analysis of the livelihoods of agro-pastoralists at a project site of the Center for Biodiversity and Indigenous Knowledge (CBIK).
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  Gender and natural resource management: livelihoods, mobility and interventions

  International Development Research Centre, 2008

  This book examines the gender dimensions of natural resource exploitation and management, with a focus on Asia. It explores the uneasy negotiations between theory, policy, and practice that are often evident within the realm of gender, environment, and natural resource management.
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  Rehabilitating degraded land

  New Agriculturalist, 2008

  Across vast areas of the world, human activity has degraded once fertile and productive land. Deforestation, overgrazing, continuous farming and poor irrigation practices have affected almost 2 billion hectares worldwide, threatening the health and livelihoods of over one billion people.
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  Impacts of agricultural research on poverty: findings of an integrated economic and social analysis

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003

  This paper examines how agricultural technologies influence and are influenced by the diverse livelihood strategies, vulnerability context, relations of gender and power, and other conditions of the poor. It reports findings of a CGIAR research project including seven case studies of different types of agricultural research: