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| Lofgren, Hans; Richards, Alan. |
| In MENA, household food insecurity, which is closely related to poverty and undernourishment, is most severe in rural areas and concentrated within Iraq, Sudan, and Yemen. 25% of the MENA population may be poor and 7% undernourished. The key to increased national and household-level food security is pro-poor growth, driven by export-oriented, labor-intensive sectors. Agricultural sector policies should be subordinate to the pro-poor growth goal and not to the goal of food self-sufficiency. Such a strategy requires conflict resolution; macroeconomic stability; physical and human capital accumulation; reliance on markets and the private sector, and diffusion of ecologically friendly farming practices. |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Middle East and North Africa; Food security; Poverty; Agriculture; Development strategy; Food Security and Poverty; O13; O53; Q18. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/16274 |
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| Mei, Yan; Xiao, Xiao. |
| Land reform development in China has experienced three great reforms, and new policy of rural land circulation in new period was an inevitable trend of rural economic development. SWOT analytical method was adopted to study the influences of the new policy on rural tourism development, which led to new opportunities, including developing rural tourism in scale and realizing capitalization of the resources. However, there were many problems and challenges, which were showed in neglecting the guarantee of farmers’ interests and lacking the protection of rural landscape. Hence, the measures for rural tourism development under new situations should be taken as follows. To begin with, it should give full play to government function; secondly, it must strengthen... |
| Tipo: Thesis or Dissertation |
Palavras-chave: Land circulation; SWOT; Development strategy; China; Rural tourism; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Land Economics/Use; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/53603 |
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