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| Jayne, Thomas S.; Villarrea, Marcela; Pingali, Prabhu L.; Hemrich, Gunter. |
| This paper draws upon development economics theory, demographic projections, and empirical evidence to consider the likely consequences of the HIV/AIDS pandemic for the agricultural sector of the hardest-hit countries of Eastern and Southern Africa. We identify four processes that have been underemphasized in previous analysis: 1) the momentum of long-term population growth rates; 2) substantial underemployment in these countries’ informal sectors; 3) steady declines in land-to-person ratios in the smallholder farming sectors; and 4) effects of food and input marketing reforms on shifts in cropping patterns. The paper concludes that the conventional wisdom encouraging prioritisation of labour-saving technology or crops has been over-generalised, although... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Health Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/110133 |
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| de Haen, Hartwig; Hemrich, Gunter. |
| A large and growing share of the world's poor lives under conditions in which high hazard risk coincides with high vulnerability. In the last decade, natural disasters claimed 79,000 lives each year and affected more than 200 million people, with damages amounting to almost US $ 70 billion annually. Experts predict that disasters will become even more frequent and their impact more severe, expecting a five-fold global cost increase over the next fifty years, mainly due to climate change and a further concentration of the world's population in vulnerable habitats. The paper argues that in order to mitigate disaster impact on poor population groups, development policy and disaster management need to become mutually supportive. Focusing on challenges... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Food Security and Poverty; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25320 |
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