The Effects Of Sugarcane Production On Food Security Health And Nutrition In Kenya

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Genre : Business & Economics
Author : Eileen T. Kennedy
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Release : 1989
File : 60 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780896290808


Nutrition And Health In Developing Countries

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The Nutrition and Health series of books have, as an overriding mission, to provide health professionals with texts that are considered essential because each includes: 1) a synthesis of the state of the science, 2) timely, in-depth reviews by the leading researchers in their respective fields, 3) extensive, up-to-date fully annotated reference lists, 4) a detailed index, 5) relevant tables and figures, 6) identification of paradigm shifts and the consequences, 7) virtually no overlap of information between chapters, but targeted, inter-chapter referrals, 8) suggestions of areas for future research and 9) balanced, data driven answers to patient /health professionals questions which are based upon the total ity of evidence rather than the findings of any single study. The series volumes are not the outcome of a symposium. Rather, each editor has the potential to examine a chosen area with a broad perspective, both in subject matter as well as in the choice of chapter authors. The international perspective, especially with regard to public health initiatives, is emphasized where appropriate. The editors, whose trainings are both research and practice oriented, have the opportunity to develop a primary objec tive for their book; define the scope and focus, and then invite the leading authorities from around the world to be part of their initiative. The authors are encouraged to provide an overview of the field, discuss their own research and relate the research findings to potential human health consequences.

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Genre : Science
Author : Richard David Semba
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Release : 2001-04-25
File : 639 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781592592258


Bibliography Of Agriculture

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Genre : Agriculture
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Release : 1990
File : 1104 Pages
ISBN-13 : UIUC:30112102098131


New Challenges To Food Security

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Food security is high on the political agenda. Fears about societal insecurity due to food price increases and hunger, grave scenarios regarding the effects of climate change and general uncertainty about the impacts of investments in biofuels and so-call “land grabbing” on food prices and availability have meant that food security is now recognised as being a multifaceted challenge. This book is unique in that it will bring together analyses of these different factors that impact on food security. This volume will describe a range of different perspectives on food security, with an emphasis on the various meanings that are applied to food security “crisis”. The challenges to be reviewed include market volatility, climate change and state fragility. Analyses of responses to food security crises and risk will cover rural and urban contexts, arenas of national policy formation and global food regimes, and investment in land and productive technologies. This book is unique in two respects. First, it takes a step back from the normative literature focused on specific factors of, for example, climate change, agricultural production or market volatility to look instead at the dynamic interplay between these new challenges. It helps readers to understand that food security is not one discourse, but is rather related to how these different factors generate multiple risks and opportunities. Second, through the case studies the book particularly emphasises how these factors come together at local levels as farmers, entrepreneurs, consumers, local government officials and others are making key decisions about what will be done to address food security and whose food security will be given priority. The book will explore how food production and consumption is embedded in powerful political and market forces and how these influence local actions.

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Genre : Nature
Author : Ian Christoplos
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2014-11-13
File : 378 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781136777608


Implications Of Economic Policy For Food Security

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A manual aimed at helping policy analysts improve their understanding of the concept of food security and the problems related to it. Food security is defined as having an available, stable, and accessible food supply for each human being. The food system, including the production and transformation of food, is studied to show the causes of food insecurity; how international, macro-level and agricultural sector policies affect the food system; and how national and international policies that could improve food security can be identified.

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Genre : Business & Economics
Author : Anne Margaret Thomson
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Release : 1999
File : 316 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9251043795


Living Under Contract

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Wracked by poverty, famine, and drought, Africa is typically represented as agriculturally stagnant, backward, and crisis-prone. Living Under Contract, however, highlights the dynamic, changing character of sub-Saharan agrarian systems by focusing on contract farming. A relatively new and increasingly widespread way of organizing peasant agriculture, contract farming promotes production of a wide variety of crops--from flowers to cocoa, from fresh vegetables to rice--under contract to agribusinesses, exporters, and processers. The proliferation of African growers producing under contract is in fact part of broader changes in the global agro-food system. In this examination of agricultural restructuring and its effect upon various African societies, editors Peter Little and Michael Watts bring together anthropologists, economists, geographers, political scientists, and sociologists to explore the origins, forms, and consequences of contract production in several African countries, particularly Kenya, the Gambia, Zimbabwe, and the Ivory Coast. Documenting how contract production links farmers, agribusiness, and the state, the contributors examine problematic aspects of this method of agrarian reform. Their case studies, based on long-term field work and analysis on the village and household level, chart the complex effects of contract production on the organization of work and the labor process, rural inequality, gender relations, labor markets, local accumulation strategies, and regional development. Living Under Contract reveals that contract farming represents a distinctive form in which African growers are incorporated into national and world markets. Contract production, which has been a central feature of the agricultural landscape in the advanced capitalist states, is an emerging strategy for "capturing peasants" and for confronting the agrarian question in the late twentieth century.

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Genre : Business & Economics
Author : Peter D. Little
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Release : 1994
File : 324 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0299140644


Adoption Of Hybrid Maize In Zambia

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Research and policy issues in adoption of hybrid maize in Zambia; Analytical approach abd methodology; Agriculture in Eastern Province; Characteristics and determinants of hybrid maize adoption; Labor allocation patterns; Food consumption and nutrient intakes; Effects on health and nutritional status;

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Genre : Business & Economics
Author : Shubh K. Kumar
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Release : 1994-01-01
File : 162 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0896291030


Trade Pessimism And Regionalism In African Countries

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Trends in world and African groundnut council production of groundnuts and other oilseeds. Trends in world and African groundnut council oilseed trade. External demand constraint, domestic policies, and export performance of African groundnut council countries. The groundnut demand outlook and the potential role of regional markets.

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Genre : Business & Economics
Author : Ousmane Badiane
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Release : 1994
File : 96 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0896291006


Incentives And Constraints In The Transformation Of Punjab Agriculture

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An overview of agricutlural development in Punjab. The conceptual framework. Estimates of the short-run yield area responses. The long-run response.

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Genre : Business & Economics
Author : Anya McGuirk
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Release : 1991
File : 112 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0896290905


Food Policy For The Poor

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Genre : Social Science
Author : Joachim Von Braun
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Release : 2005-01-01
File : 274 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780896297470