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    Occasional Papers Series No 1

    "The results of this study show that labour scarcity is a constraint to women farmers as there is a lot of work to be done and with the absence of children in school and absentee husbands in wage employments, the women need to hire labour, if they...

    OSSREA

    • Farm Labour
    • Food Production
    • Women Farmers
    • Education and state
    • Land reform
    • Labour market
    • Migrant labour
    29 pages

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    The Web of Poverty: Women and sugarcane farming in Bokoli Location, Bungoma district, Kenya

    "This study set out to analyse the cumulative effect of sugarcane farming on the role of women in food production in Bokoli location. In designing this study, the economic model was found to be useful in ordering and analyzing the data. This mode...

    Stevie Moses Nangendo

    • Bokoli Location
    • Agricultural Transformation
    • Food Production
    • Poverty
    • Agriculture--Economic aspects
    • Migration
    95 pages

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    Food Production in Zambia: The Impact of Selected Structural Adjustment Policies

    "The paper examines the impact of selected structural adjustment policies on food production in Zambia. Using a four-year panel of post-harvest data, a system of six crops, two variable inputs and three fixed inputs is estimated. The resulting s...

    Munacinga C. H. Simatele

    • Food Production
    • Macroeconomic Reforms
    • Small Scale Agriculture
    • Food Security
    • Structural adjustment (Economic policy)
    • Agriculture--Economic aspects
    • Economic development
    39 pages

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    Tracking Effective Indigenous Adaptation Strategies on Impacts of Climate Variability on Food Security and Health of Subsistence Farmers in Tanzania

    "Both long and short term changes in climate, disproportionately affect regions in both the semi-arid and arid parts of the globe and the more humid tropics. As smallholder farmers have been staying in these areas and that the climate variability...

    Riziki Silas Shemdoe

    • Climate Change Adaptation
    • Food Security
    • Agro-Ecology
    • Food Production
    • Indigenous Technologies
    • Smallholder Farmers
    • Climatic changes
    • Public health
    • Agricultural resources
    40 pages

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    The Biotechnology Revolution and its Implications for Food Security in Africa

    "Agricultural biotechnology presents many opportunities and challenges to Africa. Biotechnology promises to help meet food security needs, reverse declining per capita food production and improve the incomes and lives of farmers in Africa. However...

    Victor Konde

    • Food Security
    • Biotechnology
    • Food Production
    • Agricultural resources
    • Technological innovations--Economic aspects
    34 pages

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    Evaluating Food Crop Sector Performance in Nigeria (1999-2016)

    This study evaluates the performance of food crop sector in Nigeria from 1999-2016. The statistics show that Nigeria is having food insecurity problems: very low value of food production per capita; low and declining average dietary energy suppl...

    Nathaniel E. Urama

    Denis Nfor Yuni

    • Food Security
    • Food Production
    • Child Undernutrition
    • Agriculture and Food Policy
    • Agriculture--Economic aspects
    21 pages

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    Food Crop Sector Performance in Nigeria

    This miserable state of food availability in Nigeria vis- a-vis its massive and geometrically growing population estimated at over 193 million people in 2016 and projected to be the third most populated country in the world by 2050, calls for conc...

    Nathaniel E. Urama

    Denis Nfor Yuni

    • Food security
    • Food Production
    • Agriculture and Food Policy
    • Hunger
    • Poverty
    5 pages

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    The Relationship Between Population and Socio-Economic Development

    The unprecedented growth of population which is now taking place and which will accelerate in the coming years will be of increasing importance in International relations. This paper gives background to the problem as well as facts and forecasts w...

    L. T. Badenhorst, Dr

    • Food Production
    • Population Density
    • Economics
    • Cross Mediterranean Migration
    • Socio-Economic Development
    • Population--Economic aspects
    • Economic policy
    • Poverty
    12 pages

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    7 Billion on the Brink Who's Really Fighting the Looming Climate Change and Hunger Crisis?

    "The world today confronts three inter-locking crises – climate change,resource scarcity and food price volatility – which all pose major threats to feeding the future. We can no longer treat these challenges to humanity in isolation. We must gen...

    Institute of Policy Analysis and Research - Rwanda (IPAR-Rwanda)

    • Resource Scarcity
    • Food Price Volatility
    • Food Production
    • Food Security
    • Poverty
    • Hunger
    • Climatic changes
    • Agricultural resources
    104 pages

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