Search Results - "developing countries"

Food security and the World Trade Organization: a typology of countries by Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio, Thomas, Marcelle, Robinson, Sherman, Cattaneo, Andrea

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Unlocking crediting opportunities in climate-smart agriculture by Wollenberg, Eva Karoline, Richards, Meryl B., Costa, Ciniro, Sapkota, Tek Bahadur, Wilkes, Andreas, Reddy, Rama Chandra, Cheng, Zhuo, Tao, Nuyi

“…In particular, the report aims to inform developing country governments about the opportunities for promoting transformative CSA interventions within the framework of results-based finance and its potential positioning in relation to other World Bank financing.…”
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Public investment to reverse Dutch disease: the case of Chad by Levy, Stephanie

“…This paper studies the relevance of agricultural policies for avoiding Dutch Disease, which affects many less developed countries experiencing a resource boom. Using a computable general equilibrium model calibrated for Chad, we study the impact of using this country’s annual oil revenue for public investment, particularly in the development of road and irrigation infrastructure. …”
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Does geographic targeting of nutrition interventions make sense in cities?: evidence from Abidjan and Accra by Morris, Saul Sutkover, Levin, Carol E., Armar-Klemesu, Margaret, Maxwell, Daniel G., Ruel, Marie T.

“…Although most developing country cities are characterized by pockets of substandard housing and inadequate service provision, it is not known to what degree low incomes and malnutrition are confined to specific neighborhoods. …”
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Climate change impacts and adaptation in Nepal by Bartlett, R., Bharati, Luna, Pant, Dhruba, Hosterman, H.R., McCornick, Peter G.

“…This is especially true for Nepal, a least developed country, where a high percentage of the population is dependent on agriculture for its livelihoods. …”
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Wastewater as a source of multiple livelihoods?: a study in rural Andhra Pradesh, South India by Buechler, Stephanie J., Gayathri Devi, M.

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Potential implications of the use of digital sequence information on genetic resources for the three objectives of the Convention on Biological Diversity. A submission from CGIAR t... by Halewood, Michael, López Noriega, Isabel, Ellis, David, Roa, C., Rouard, M., Sackville-Hamilton, N. Ruaraidh

“…Other non-monetary benefits are farmers’ improved access to technologies, enhanced institutional capacities of developing country research organizations, shared research results, and local and regional economic development.…”
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Posibles repercusiones del uso de la información digital sobre secuencias de recursos genéticos para los tres objetivos del Convenio sobre la Diversidad Biológica. Informe del CGIA... by Halewood, Michael, López Noriega, Isabel, Ellis, David, Roa, C., Rouard, M., Sackville-Hamilton, N. Ruaraidh

“…Other non-monetary benefits are farmers’ improved access to technologies, enhanced institutional capacities of developing country research organizations, shared research results, and local and regional economic development.…”
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Implications potentielles de l’utilisation de l’information génétique numérique sur les ressources génétiques sur les trois objectifs de la Convention sur la diversité biologique.... by Halewood, Michael, López Noriega, Isabel, Ellis, David, Roa, C., Rouard, M., Sackville-Hamilton, N. Ruaraidh

“…Other non-monetary benefits are farmers’ improved access to technologies, enhanced institutional capacities of developing country research organizations, shared research results, and local and regional economic development.…”
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A country in rapid transition: can Myanmar achieve food security? by McCartney, Matthew P., Khaing, O.

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Contract farming and rural transformation: Evidence from a field experiment in Benin by Arouna, A., Michler, J.D., Lokossou, Jourdain C.

“…Contract farming has emerged as a popular mechanism to encourage vertical coordination in developing country agriculture. Yet, there is a lack of consensus on its ability to spur structural transformation in rural economies. …”
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Civil service reforms in Pakistan by Rana, Abdul Wajid

“…Effective governance is one of the key challenges for both developing and developed countries. Governments, today, are increasingly encountering complex and cross-cutting issues such as economic and financial volatility, internal and external conflicts, growing social tensions, adverse demographic trends, climate change vulnerabilities, weak regulatory regimes, huge infrastructure and service delivery gaps, state and elite capturing and sustaining rule of law. …”
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Treating the field as a lab: A basic guide to conducting economics by Viceisza, Angelino C.G.

“…Treating the Field as a Lab: A Basic Guide to Conducting Economics Experiments for Policymaking offers economists, researchers, and policymakers 19 basic principles for conducting experiments in developing-country contexts. In this Food Security in Practice technical guide, Angelino Viceisza focuses on the class of economics experiments known as lablike field experiments and examines their basic rationale, the details involved in conducting them, and some of the applications of them in the literature. …”
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Creating, protecting, and using crop biotechnologies worldwide in an era of intellectual property by Pardey, Philip G., Koo, Bonwoo, Nottenburg, Carol

“…Proponents tout the positive incentive-to-innovate effects of intellectual property rights (IPRs), while others maintain that the expanding subject matter and geographical extent of IPRs are stifling crop research, especially research and development (R&D) dealing with developing-country crop concerns. Much of this debate relies on anecdotes and misleading or incomplete evidence on the extent and nature of the IPRs pertaining to crop technologies, including the jurisdictional extent of the property rights and their practice. …”
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The political economy of environmental policy reform in Latin America by Kaimowitz, D.

“…It first looks at the main groups that might promote such reforms - developed country organizations, the urban middle class, groups that have direct material interests in reform, and movements for social justice. …”
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The political economy of environmental policy reform in Latin America by Kaimowitz, D.

“…It first looks at the main groups that might promote such reforms - developed country organizations, the urban middle class, groups that have direct material interests in reform, and movements for social justice. …”
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A review of the contribution of livestock to food security, poverty alleviation and environmental sustainability in sub-Saharan Africa by Ehui, Simeon K.

“…Unlike developed countries, where people often eat too many animal products, most of the population of Sub-Saharan Africa eats too little of this type of food for good nutrition. …”
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CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security by CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…This program aims to support food security, enhanced livelihoods, and improved environmental management in the face of climate change. It will offer developing country farmers new options for adapting to the emerging impacts of climate change and for mitigating climate change through a “carbon-friendly” agriculture that also strengthens food security and reduces poverty. …”
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Sustainable livestock systems to improve human health, nutrition, and economic status by Varijakshapanicker, Padmakumar, Mckune, Sarah, Miller, Laurie, Hendrickx, Saskia C.J., Balehegn, Mulubrhan, Dahl, Geoffrey E., Adesogan, Adegbola T.

“…This important index shows that methane production per unit of food produced in several low- and middle-income countries is much greater than in some developed countries (Figure 1). This does not imply that the production systems in the developed countries should be copied entirely by low- and middle-income countries; rather, each country should evaluate and implement the aspects of developed country production systems that will sustainably intensify their production systems and thereby increase food production while reducing greenhouse gas emissions. …”
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Impact of Ghana’s agricultural mechanization services center program by Benin, Samuel

“…Use of mechanization in African agriculture has returned strongly to the development agenda, particularly following the recent high food prices crisis. Many developing country governments—including Ghana, the case study of this paper—have resumed support for agricultural mechanization, typically in the form of providing subsidies for tractor purchase and establishment of private-sector-run agricultural mechanization service centers (AMSECs). …”
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