Resultados de búsqueda - "Decadence"

Papua New Guinea agri-food trade and household consumption trends point towards dietary change and increased overweight and obesity prevalence por Schmidt, Emily, Fang, Peixun

“…Background Papua New Guinea (PNG) experienced positive GDP growth at approximately 4.3% per year during the last decade. With increases in overall wealth within the country, PNG is facing a double burden of malnutrition: comparatively high child stunting rates and a growing overweight and obesity epidemic. …”
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Multiple factors influence the consistency of cropland datasets in Africa por Wei, Yanbing, Lu, Miao, Wu, Wenbin, Ru, Yating

“…Accurate geo-information of cropland is critical for food security strategy development and grain production management, especially in Africa continent where most countries are food-insecure. Over the past decades, a series of African cropland maps have been derived from remotely-sensed data, existing comparison studies have shown that inconsistencies with statistics and discrepancies among these products are considerable. …”
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Farm machinery use and the agricultural machinery industries in India: Status, evolution, implications, and lessons learned por Bhattarai, Madhusudan, Singh, Gajendra, Takeshima, Hiroyuki, Shekhawat, Ravindra S.

“…Over the last several decades, India has seen a continuous spread of tractor use as well as growth in its domestic tractor manufacturing industry, despite relatively slow wage growth and a slow decline in the employment share of the agricultural sector. …”
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GM maize in Ethiopia: An ex ante economic assessment of TELA, a drought tolerant and insect resistant maize por Yirga, Chilot, Nin-Pratt, Alejandro, Zambrano, Patricia, Wood-Sichra, Ulrike, Habte, Endeshaw, Kato, Edward, Komen, John, Falck-Zepeda, José B., Chambers, Judith A.

“…Ethiopian economy has grown at an average rate that surpasses that of almost any other economy in the region over the last two decades. At the center of this development is the high priority placed on accelerating agricultural growth and achieving food security and poverty alleviation. …”
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The changing nature of hydroclimatic risks across South Africa por Schlosser, Adam, Sokolov, Andrei, Strzepek, Kenneth M., Thomas, Timothy S., Gao, Xiang, Arndt, Channing

“…Thus, the climate risk that may be experienced in a decade as a result of current global actions to reduce emissions could be delayed by 30 years, and would provide invaluable lead-time for national efforts to be put in place to prepare, fortify, and/or adapt to these changing environments of risk.…”
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Haiti: The impact of COVID-19 and preliminary implications: Interim report por Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio, Piñeiro, Valeria, De Salvo, Carmine Paolo, Laborde Debucquet, David

“…In addition, the country suffered a series of very damaging natural disasters during this period, particularly the lethal earthquake of 2010 (from which Haiti has never fully recovered), but also a series of tropical storms and hurricanes (tropical storm Jeanne in 2004; hurricane Dennis in 2005; further tropical storms in 2008; hurricane Sandy in 2012; and hurricane Matthew in 2016, the strongest in decades). Recently, Haiti also experienced drought conditions that affected agricultural production. …”
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Impact evaluation of the use of PBR cowpea in Nigeria: Baseline report por Andam, Kwaw S., Amare, Mulubrhan, Zambrano, Patricia, Bamiwuye, Temilolu, Nwagboso, Chibuzo, Fasoranti, Adetunji, Edeh, Hyacinth O., Chambers, Judith A.

“…Given that conventional breeding has not been successful in addressing this constraint, local and international efforts over the last decades focused on developing a pod-borer-resistant (PBR) cowpea. …”
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Some lessons from a life in food policy por Fan, Shenggen

“…Now, as I look back on my past decade as director general of the International Food Policy Research Institute, I can see how my own life illustrates the promise of food policy to change human lives. …”
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Structural transformation in Southeast Asian countries and key drivers por Bathla, Seema, D'Souza, Alwin, Joshi, Pramod Kumar

“…We also find that while Lao PDR, Thailand, and Indonesia have reached their TPs, other nations, especially the poorer ones such as Viet Nam, Myanmar, and Philippines are predicted to take at least a decade towards this goal. Empirical analysis suggests ST in CLMVPMIT is positively driven by agricultural productivity, terms of trade, and public investments in infrastructure, with little role for rural to urban migration and market integration. …”
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Building locally led agricultural policy analysis capacity: Lessons from experience in developing countries por Jayne, Thomas S., Babu, Suresh Chandra, Boughton, Duncan, Hendriks, Sheryl L., Mkandawire, Elizabeth, Dorosh, Paul A., Savadogo, Kimsey

“…This report synthesizes lessons learned from the Food Security Policy Innovation Lab’s capacity strengthening efforts over the 2013–2018 period and from related capacity development initiatives conducted over the last four decades by the partner institutions in Africa and Asia. …”
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Ethiopia's spatial and structural transformation: Public policy and drivers of change por Schmidt, Emily, Dorosh, Paul A., Kedir Jemal, Mekamu, Smart, Jenny

“…This paper evaluates Ethiopia’s urbanization trend during the last four decades, while also considering Ethiopia’s structural transformation and recent public investments to promote greater industrialization within the country. …”
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External shocks, food security, and development: Exploring scenarios for Central America por Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio, Piñeiro, Valeria, Elverdin, Pablo

“…We review the economic and social evolution of the past decades in those countries, and we consider a global scenario that includes further deceleration of world growth, lower commodity prices, and a decline in remittances and capital flows to those countries. …”
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Improving household consumption and expenditure surveys’ food consumption metrics: Developing a strategic approach to the unfinished agenda por Fiedler, John L., Mwangi, Dena M.

“…As the nature of global malnutrition changes, there is a growing need and increasing urgency for more and better information about food consumption and dietary patterns. The past two decades have seen a dramatic increase in the number, availability, and analysis of the food consumption data collected in a variety of multipurpose household surveys, referred to collectively as household consumption and expenditure surveys (HCESs). …”
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Spatiotemporal variability of soil moisture over Ethiopia and its teleconnections with remote and local drivers por Jimma, Tamirat B, Demissie, Teferi, Diro, Gulilat T, Ture, Kassahun, Terefe, Tadesse, Solomon, Dawit

“…Major global oceanic indices: Oceanic Nino Index (ONI), Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD), Pacific warm pool (PACWARMPOOL), and Pacific Decadal Oscillations (PDO) are found to be closely associated with the SM anomalies in various parts of the country. …”
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What are the priorities for investment in improved nutrition data? por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Introduced initially as a temporary, interim strategy, CDP is now a decade old.To assess how well CDP is implemented using an activity-based cost analysis.In the absence of a cost-accounting system for CDP, we defined the six major CDP activities as cost centers and identified five important subactivities required to implement a round of CDP. …”
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Migration and employment in Tajikistan: Evidence from twelve districts in Khatlon Province, 2015 - 2023 por Lambrecht, Isabel B., Akramov, Kamiljon T., Aliev, Jovidon, Mardonova Tolibkhonovna, Mohru

“…In 2015 they were 27 percent of GDP, the lowest level in a decade (World Bank 2023). In contrast, personal remittances were at their highest relative to the country’s GDP in 2022.1 The 2023 survey, therefore, was administered during a time of relatively better conditions for migrants. …”
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Opportunities and challenges in agriculture and garments: a general equilibrium analysis of the Bangladesh economy por Arndt, Channing, Dorosh, Paul A., Fontana, Marzia, Zohir, Sajjad, El-Said, Moataz, Lungren, Christen

“…For the past two decades, Bangladesh has enjoyed steady growth in per capita incomes enabling a significant reduction in poverty. …”
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Resilient cities urban nutrition profile: Peru por Margolies, Amy, Vilca, Jessica Huamán, Pather, Kamara, Olney, Deanna K.

“…-Overweight and obesity in women have been highly prevalent for more than a decade, with no signs of improvement; they affected 66 percent of urban and 61 percent of rural women in 2023). …”
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The future of small farms for poverty reduction and growth por Hazell, Peter B. R., Poulton, Colin, Wiggins, Steve, Dorward, Andrew R.

“…The pathways of transformation differ by region and location and will take decades. Policy must take a long-run view to support and guide this process efficiently, effectively, and in social fairness. …”
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Biofuels and food security: Balancing needs for food, feed, and fuel por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Another outcome for developing countries could be increased pressure on fragile natural resources on which poor farmers depend, potentially further degrading land and stressing limited water supplies. Over the coming decades, global food and agricultural systems not only will continue to come under the strain of providing for the competing needs of food, feed, and fuel, but will also face greater pressure from climatic and other economic changes. …”
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