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Mather, David; Donovan, Cynthia; Jayne, Thomas S.; Weber, Michael T.; Chapoto, Antony; Mazhangara, Edward; Mghenyi, Elliot W.; Bailey, Linda; Yoo, Kyeongwon; Yamano, Takashi. |
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Community/Rural/Urban Development; Consumer/Household Economics; Downloads November 2008 - July 2007: 6. |
Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/11322 |
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Mather, David; Donovan, Cynthia; Jayne, Thomas S.; Weber, Michael T.; Chapoto, Antony; Mazhangara, Edward; Bailey, Linda; Yoo, Kyeongwon; Yamano, Takashi; Mghenyi, Elliot W.. |
This paper summarizes and synthesizes across the results of a set of country studies on the effects of prime-age adult mortality on rural households in Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, and Zambia. Each study is based on large representative rural household surveys. These findings have implications for the design of efforts to mitigate some of the most important effects of rural adult mortality, and for key development policies and priorities. |
Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: HIV/AIDS; Sub-Saharan Africa; Mortality; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Health Economics and Policy; Downloads July 2008 - July 2009: 21; I11. |
Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54571 |
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Hrapsky, Alan; Weber, Michael T.; Riley, Harold. |
The objective of this research was to provide USAID with a diagnostic-prescriptive assessment of the mango commodity system that would be useful in the design and management of USAID’s project portfolio. A secondary objective was to demonstrate how a market-guided food systems approach could be applied to a particular commodity, thus facilitating coordination of vertical stages in the agricultural production and marketing system. The food systems approach begins with identification of consumer requirements in terms of product specifications and volume flows, examines the production changes necessary to achieve these requirements, then systematically diagnoses constraints at each stage in the production/marketing chain, and prescribes realistic... |
Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Food security; Food policy; Marketing systems; Crop Production/Industries; Marketing; Downloads July 2008 - June 2009: 7; Q13. |
Ano: 1985 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54748 |
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Jayne, Thomas S.; Zulu, Ballard; Kajoba, Gear; Weber, Michael T.. |
Key Policy Message: - Despite having relatively low population densities, inadequate access to land is one of the major causes of rural poverty in Zambia. - The apparent paradox of inadequate access to land for many rural households in a country of low population density is partially reconciled when taking into account that economically viable arable land requires at least some degree of access to basic services, water, road infrastructure, and markets. The basic public investments to make settlement economically viable have yet been made in many areas of Zambia. - Depending of future land allocation policy, access to good quality land with a market potential may become increasingly beyond the reach of many small-scale farm households, making it more... |
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Zambia; Food security; Land; Policy; Agricultural and Food Policy; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Consumer/Household Economics; Food Security and Poverty; Land Economics/Use; Q18; Q15. |
Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/55054 |
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Dione, Josue; Kagwanja, Joan; Weber, Michael T.; Staatz, John M.; Kelly, Valerie A.. |
Getting the food and agriculture system moving faster is crucial for structural transformation and poverty reduction in Africa. This requires investing in basic productive and market infrastructure, and expanding appropriate research, knowledge, and technology for increased productivity at all stages of the agricultural commodity chains. The advent of the World Wide Web and steady reductions in the cost and increases in the speed of Internet services in Africa are changing the way we must think about the development, storage, and dissemination of policy analysis and training materials, which are crucial inputs for agricultural development. Yet, much remains to be done to harness these information communication technology tools more effectively to help... |
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Food Security and Poverty. |
Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/9514 |
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Mpyisi, Edson; Weber, Michael T.; Shingiro, Emmanuel; Loveridge, Scott. |
There have been major shifts/changes in land use patterns in Rwanda over the past twelve years. A few striking observations include: As a percentage of total farmland, cultivated land increased. The increase in cultivated land occurred at the expense of pasture and fallow and woodlot. The share of pasture and fallow decreased from 22% in 1990 to 14% in 2002 and woodlot decreased from 11% in 1990 to 7% in 2002. This trend of increasing cultivated land is apparent from the mid-eighties to today. These observations imply that land is being farmed much more intensively without much time to fallow and allow the soil to rejuvenate. Pasture and woodlot are also being cut down at the expense of cultivation. This has important potential implications for... |
Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Food security; Food policy; Allocation of land; Farm size; Rwanda; Land Economics/Use; Q18. |
Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/55357 |
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Mpyisi, Edson; Weber, Michael T.; Shingiro, Emmanuel; Loveridge, Scott. |
There have been major shifts/changes in land use patterns in Rwanda over the past twelve years. A few striking observations include: As a percentage of total farmland, cultivated land increased. The increase in cultivated land occurred at the expense of pasture and fallow and woodlot. The share of pasture and fallow decreased from 22% in 1990 to 14% in 2002 and woodlot decreased from 11% in 1990 to 7% in 2002. This trend of increasing cultivated land is apparent from the mid-eighties to today. These observations imply that land is being farmed much more intensively without much time to fallow and allow the soil to rejuvenate. Pasture and woodlot are also being cut down at the expense of cultivation. This has important potential implications for... |
Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Food security; Food policy; Allocation of land; Farm size; Rwanda; Land Economics/Use; Q18. |
Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/55356 |
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Jayne, Thomas S.; Tschirley, David L.; Rubey, Lawrence; Reardon, Thomas; Staatz, John M.; Weber, Michael T.. |
This report is a synthesis of views presented at the Confronting the Silent Challenge of Hunger USAID Conference, June 28-29, 1994. The purposes of the conference were to provide information to assist AID in defining and articulating its development strategy related to agriculture and food security, to identify issues of consensus for incorporation into future AID strategy, and to identify critical issues of ongoing debate which need to be resolved. |
Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Food security; Food policy; Food Security and Poverty; Downloads July 2008 - June 2009: 8; F35. |
Ano: 1995 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54699 |
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Nijhoff, Jan J.; Tschirley, David L.; Jayne, Thomas S.; Tembo, Gelson; Arlindo, Pedro; Mwiinga, Billy; Shaffer, James D.; Weber, Michael T.; Donovan, Cynthia; Boughton, Duncan. |
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Food Security and Poverty; Downloads June 2008 - June 2009: 20. |
Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/11319 |
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