![](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/user/profile/bg.jpg?itok=AS7CYxvm)
Topics and Regions
Land Portal Foundation administrative account
Details
Location
Income diversification in Zimbabwe
"The paper examines, taking into account the urban-rural divides, the changes and welfare implications of income diversification in Zimbabwe following macroeconomic policy changes and droughts of the early 1990s. Data from two comparable national income, consumption, and expenditure surveys in 1990/91 and 1995/96 show that the percentage of households earning income from private and informal sources grew considerably while that from government and formal sources declined.
Agricultural exit problems: Causes and consequences
"Contrary to conventional economic theories, the relationship between income growth and the share of the population within the rural or agricultural sector is extremely diverse, even among regions starting from similar levels of development, such as Asia and Africa. The pattern in developing Asia is characterized by fast growth and slow urbanization, primarily as the result of labor-intensive agricultural growth and strong farm�nonfarm linkages. But for all its success to date, Asia appears to be increasingly vulnerable to rising inequality and jobless growth patterns.
Public agriculture R&D investments
Book chapter
Growth, inequality, and poverty in rural China: the role of public investments
In the past two decades, China has achieved world renown for reducing rural poverty. However, it is becoming harder to reduce poverty and inequality further in China, even though its economy continues to grow. This report compares the impact specific rural public investments can have on promoting growth and reducing poverty and inequality. Returns to these investments are calculated for the nation as a whole and for three economic zones in the west, central, and coastal regions of the country.
Why is child malnutrition lower in urban than rural areas?
"While ample evidence documents that urban children generally have better nutritional status than their rural counterparts, recent research suggests that urban malnutrition is on the rise. The environment, choices, and opportunities of urbanites differ greatly from those of rural dwellers' from employment conditions to social and family networks to access to health care and other services.
The bang for the birr
"During the past decade and a half, Ethiopia’s approach to promoting development and improving the lives of the country’s rural population has been driven by a government strategy called Agricultural Development–Led Industrialization (ADLI). This strategy’s main goal is to encourage fast, broad-based development within the agricultural sector in order to power economic growth.
Farmland holdings, crop planting structure and input usage
This study, based on the data of China’s agricultural census of 1997, focuses on the land distribution among rural households and its effects on crop production structure and employment of labor and capital. The Census data show that the size of holdings surprisingly differs among households, and land rental activities has started to play an important role in land allocation. Grain production accounts for 80% of total sown area for each household group, indicating that self-sufficiency in grains production is still an important factor to farmers.
1990 IFPRI Annual Report
CONTENTS: Message from the Chairman / Gerry Helleiner; Introduction / Just Faaland; Research results:; Food data evaluation program; World food trends and projections during this decade; Production and consumption of foodgrains in India; Poverty and technical change in China; Horticultural trade; Food production policy program; Generation and diffusion of modern agricultural technology; Accelerating growth with equity; Agricultural resources and the environment; Agricultural growth linkages program; Growth and equity in rural areas; Resource transfers in the national and provincial economie
A experiência ao nível das políticas em Moçambique destaca a importância do género na disseminação de técnicas de gestão sustentável das terras
A inovação agrícola é essencial para a satisfação das crescentes necessidades alimentares num clima em mudança. Uma das possíveis vias para o aumento da produção é o investimento nas terras cultivadas por mulheres. Embora a intensifi-cação da agricultura seja a abordagem padrão para o aumento da produção, esforços recentes procuram dar ênfase à gestão sustentável das terras (GST). O modo tradicional de difusão de tecnologias é efetuado através do fornecimento de serviços de extensão agrária, que habitualmente servem primordialmente os agricultores do sexo masculino.
A strategy for agricultural Statistics in Ghana
Agriculture is the backbone of the Ghanaian economy. It plays an important role in the socioeconomic development of Ghana as it contributes to ensuring food security, provides raw materials for local industries, generates foreign exchange, and provides employment and incomes for most of the population (especially those living in the rural areas), thereby contributing to economic development and poverty reduction.