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With urban dwellers purchasing 80 percent or more of their food, understanding urban employment is critical to designing policies and programs to address urban hunger and poverty. Reviewing the literature, but also using data from household surveys conducted by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and others in five countries of Latin America, Asia, and Africa, this paper profiles urban employment in developing-country cities.
Village Stratification for Policy Analysis: Multiple Development Domains in the Ethiopian Highlands of Tigray
Many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa suffer from problems related to poverty, natural resource degradation, and the complex interactions between these phenomena (Cleaver and Schreiber 1994). In the northern Ethiopian highlands of Tigray region, problems of poverty and degradation are extremely severe: population density is very high, rainfall is scarce and erratic, and soil fertility is low. Under such conditions, farmers need to rely on external inputs and soil conservation practices in order to stabilize or increase yields.
Gender, climate change, and group-based approaches to adaptation
This policy note summarizes the findings of two literature reviews on the gender-differentiated impacts of climate change and the scope for community-based adaptation. It also outlines the framework used to guide these analyses and the other papers summarized in this series.
La mouvance des stratégies de developpement agricole en Afrique
La mouvance des stratégies de developpement agricole en Afrique
Development strategy and governance division
The Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations focus on many of the aims central to IFPRI’s mandate, including tackling poverty, hunger, and malnutrition. Achieving such goals requires multifaceted development strategies that generate inclusive economic growth for men, women, and youth in both urban and rural areas.
Water and food to 2025
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. Yet farmers are already competing with industry, domestic water users, and the environment for access to the world’s finite supply of water. Will available freshwater meet the rapidly growing demands for household, industrial, and environmental needs and still provide enough water to produce food for a burgeoning population?
Agricultural growth trends and outlook report: Trends in agricultural sector performance, growth and poverty in Malawi
This report presents results of the 2012 Annual Trends and Outlook for Malawi (ATOR). This is the first ATOR for Malawi. The study was carried out as part of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Monitoring and Evaluation for the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program (CAADP) Survey. The study mainly adopted a quantitative approach. A standard structured questionnaire 1 was used to collect data on several indicators around the six broad areas.
Surveillance and control of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) in Ethiopia
How does information about a suspected outbreak of avian influenza on the farm level reach the respective authorities? How and through which actors is the response to a confirmed outbreak implemented on the ground? These were the guiding questions for representatives of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, poultry producers and traders and the research sector, to map out the information and response networks concerning Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Ethiopia.
Implications of land policies for rural-urban linkages and rural transformation in Ethiopia
In this discussion paper, we explore the policy environment related to rural-urban linkages and migration in Ethiopia, and analyze how the policies are impacting rural transformation. Section 2 describes conceptual issues and the theoretical framework that establishes the connection between RULs, rural-urban migration, and rural transformation. Section 3 outlines the policy landscape pertaining specifically to land and labor in Ethiopia, and analyzes the impact these policies have on migration behavior and rural transformation.
How can African agriculture adapt to climate change: Economywide impacts of climate change on agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa
Approximately 80 percent of poor people in Sub-Saharan Africa continue to depend on the agricultural sector for their livelihoods, but-unlike in other regions of the world-agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa is characterized by very low yields due to agroecological features, poor access to services, lack of knowledge and inputs, and low levels of investment in infrastructure and irrigation. In addition, high population growth rates, especially in rural areas, intensify pressure on agricultural production and natural resources and further complicate the challenge of reducing poverty.