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| Lastarria-Cornhiel, Susana; Melmed-Sanjak, Jolyne. |
| This literature review focuses on recent and contemporary tenancy structures in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Tenancy for purposes of this review is broadly defined to include different leasing arrangements such sharecropping, labor tenancy, fixed cash rentals, and reverse leasing. We have limited our discussion to private leasing of agricultural land, thereby ignoring issues pertaining to leasing of public, forest, and other noncrop lands. The purpose of this literature review is to provide a basis for evaluation of the desirability, feasibility, and potential content of regulatory guidelines for lease agreements that might permit the land-lease market to operate effectively. The works discussed herein are both theoretical and empirical. We have... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Farm tenancy--Asia; Farm tenancy--Africa; Sub-Saharan; Farm tenancy--Latin America; Farm tenancy--Developing countries--Bibliography; Land tenure--Developing countries; Land Economics/Use. |
| Ano: 1999 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/12783 |
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| Smith, Lisa C.; Alderman, Harold; Aduayom, Dede. |
| Reducing food insecurity in the developing world continues to be a major public policy challenge, and one that is complicated by lack of information on the location, severity, and causes of food insecurity. Such information is needed to properly target assistance, evaluate whether progress is achieved, and develop appropriate interventions to help those in need. This research report explores a new method of measuring food insecurity using food data collected as part of household expenditure surveys. Such surveys are routinely undertaken by numerous national governments throughout the developing world, but in the past the resulting food data remained largely unexploited for the purposes of measuring food insecurity. Using data from 12 Sub-Saharan African... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Food supply; Africa; Sub-Saharan; Food Security and Poverty. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/37885 |
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