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Senegal: Recent developments in public agricultural research por Stads, Gert-Jan, Sène, Louis

“…PPPs are synthetic exchange rates used to reflect the purchasing power of currencies; they typically compare prices among a broader range of goods and services than do conventional exchange rates.…”
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Balancing agricultural development and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon por Cattaneo, Andrea

“…Since the 1970s, federal policies promoting migration and encouraging agricultural development of large farms, logging, and ranching have led to the deforestation of vast areas of the Amazon rainforest.Though these policies have largely been replaced, deforestation continues. What effects do current macroeconomic and regional policies and events have on deforestation and on the well-being of settlers on the agricultural frontier? …”
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Burying nutrition myths and activating choices for our children's development: Summary Paper from the International Conference on Sustainable Food Security For All By 2020 por Haddad, Lawrence J.

“…He asks the question of why developing countries cannot do more to reduce hunger, why our collective knowledge does not lead to a solution to malnutrition and how much money is actually needed to eradicate hunger. …”
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Labor market shocks and their impacts on work and schooling: evidence from urban Mexico por Skoufias, Emmanuel, Parker, Susan W.

“…The same shocks also increase significantly the probability that children do not continue school in the next year. The paper also presents evidence suggesting differential treatment based on the sex of children within families.…”
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Labor market shocks and their impacts on work and schooling: evidence from urban Mexico por Skoufias, Emmanuel, Parker, Susan W.

“…The same shocks also increase significantly the probability that children do not continue school in the next year. The paper also presents evidence suggesting differential treatment based on the sex of children within families.…”
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Unequal exchange? recent transfers of agricultural resources and their implications for developing countries por Fowler, Cary, Smale, Melinda, Gaiji, Samy

“…Potentially problematic, intellectual property rights do not currently present major barriers to the availability and use of genetic resources by developing countries. …”
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Water and food to 2025: policy responses to the threat of scarcity por Rosegrant, Mark W., Cai, Ximing, Cline, Sarah A.

“…The world’s farmers will likely need to produce enough food to feed 8 billion people by 2025, and to do so they must have enough water to raise their crops. …”
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Consumption effects of commercialization of agriculture por Bouis, Howarth E.

“…This chapter addresses three central questions: (1) to what extent are increments in income spent on nonfood items, in particular, health-related items; (2) to what extent are increments in income spent on food, and (controlling income) dows the switch to commercial production alter the marginal propensities to spend on food; and (3) to what extent do increments in food expenditures lead to greater calorie intakes, both at the household level and at the individual preschooler level?…”
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What's economics worth? Valuing policy research por Pardey, Philip G., Smith, Vincent H.

“…Anyone who wants to understand what economists do and how to think about valuing their work will find this book intriguing and worthwhile.…”
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Property rights, collective action, and agribusiness por Johnson, Nancy L., Berdegué, Julio A.

“…They conclude that agroindustrialization, which is changing agriculture and rural communities in developing countries, forces farmers and entrepreneurs to change the way they do business. Collective action and networking, a better understanding of how to develop and support those networks, and less traditional forms of organization, such as agricultural cooperatives, is necessary for the development of an efficient and equitable agribusiness sector. -- from Text…”
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Building on successes in African agriculture por Haggblade, Steven

“…Roughly 80 percent of the continent’s poor live in rural areas, and even those who do not will depend heavily on increasing agricultural productivity to lift them out of poverty. …”
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Security is like oxygen: Evidence from Uganda por Zhang, Xiaobo

“…Only when security exceeds this threshold do public investments stimulate economic growth. …”
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Institutional economics perspectives on African agricultural development por Kirsten, Johann F., Dorward, Andrew R., Poulton, Colin, Vink, Nick

“…Professionals in economics and agricultural economics have been paying increasing attention to institutional issues and have developed strong concepts and analytical tools to do so. The core message of this book is that this new focus is particularly relevant to the problems of agricultural development in Africa. …”
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Mapping Kapiti’s soils: A foundation for rangeland restoration por Tam, Kirsten, Rufino, Mariana, Gachene Charles, Slater, Annabel

“…What marks degraded grassland soils, and how do we restore them? And the first step is to know what type of soils are lying below the grasslands.…”
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Property rights and the management of animal genetic resources: how to secure access to drylands resources for multiple users por Anderson, Simon, Centose, Roberta

“…However, processes leading to genetic erosion do not precipitate adaptation through natural selection. …”
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Moving up and moving down: a new way of examining country growth dynamics por Rockmore, Marc, Zhang, Xiaobo

“…Do the countries which grow share the same features as those which decline? …”
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Orphans and discrimination in Mozambique: an outlay equivalence analysis por Nhate, Virgulino, Arndt, Channing, Barslund, Mikkel, Van den Broeck, Katleen

“…This discrimination is identified at the national, rural, and urban levels In non-poor households, resource allocations between biological and non-biological children do not differ significantly.…”
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Food subsidies: Consumer welfare and producer incentives por Pinstrup-Andersen, Per

“…Since a large share of the income of the poor is generally spent on food, higher food prices may cause severe hardships to those who do not derive their incomes from food production either directly as producers or farm workers or indirectly as providers of inputs and consumption goods to farmers. …”
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Linkages between government spending, growth, and poverty in rural India por Fan, Shenggen, Hazell, Peter B. R., Thorat, Sukhadeo

“…However, as the government faces increasing pressure to contain its budget deficits, the need becomes imperative to target its spending more efficiently to achieve its growth and poverty alleviation goals. To do so, policymakers must have a clear understanding of how different types of public investment affect agricultural growth and rural poverty.…”
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The impacts of adult death on child growth and nutrition evidence from five southern African countries por Brunelli, Chiara, Kenefick, Eric, Yamauchi, Futoshi

“…If households face credit constraints, and their risk mitigating strategies do not ensure perfect smoothing of consumption, the death of adult members (who are likely income earners) can decrease consumption and therefore dietary intakes. …”
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