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Despite declining arable agricultural land, Bangladesh has made substantial progress in boosting domestic food production, improving access to food by increasing household income, and enhancing nutritional outcomes
Explores key emerging issues facing developing-country agriculture today, from rapid urbanization to rural transformation to climate change
An evolving paradigm of agricultural mechanization development: How much can Africa learn from Asia?
Analyzing the experiences of eight Asian and five African countries, the authors explore crucial government roles in boosting and supporting mechanization, from import policies to promotion policies to public good policies.
The coronavirus pandemic has sparked not only a health crisis but also an economic crisis, which together pose a serious threat to food security, particularly in poorer countries.
Building more inclusive food systems can bring a wide range of economic and development benefits to all people, especially the poor and disadvantaged.
The making of a blue revolution in Bangladesh: Enablers, impacts, and the path ahead for aquaculture
A rapid increase in aquaculture production in Bangladesh has lowered fish prices, increased protein consumption, and reduced poverty.
Agriculture's vast potential to improve nutrition is just beginning to be tapped.
India, a country with high concentrations of poor and malnourished people, long promoted a cereal-centric diet composed of subsidized staple commodities such as rice and wheat to feed its population of more than a billion.
This book addresses the thorny and fascinating question of how food and voucher programs, despite theory and evidence generally favoring cash, remain relevant, have evolved, and, in most circumstances, have improved over time.
The volume consists of an overview and seven country studies, written by leading scholars from both developed and developing countries.
Historically, agriculture has been crucial to Pakistan’s economic growth and development and remains so even today.
Relatório sobre a nutrição mundial 2016: da Promessa ao impacto: erradicar a má mutrição até 2030
Poucos desafios enfrentados hoje pela comunidade global se comparam, em escala, à má nutrição, distúrbio que afeta diretamente uma em cada três pessoas.