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Modernization of family farms improves the sustainability of food security for farm households in Burkina Faso
Family farms are poorly modernized in Burkina Faso despite their predominance in the country’s agriculture and their major contribution to national food production.
Farmers’ awareness and perceptions of the new farm laws 2020 in India: Empirical evidence from a household survey
In 2020, the Union government enacted three new farm laws to address the structural weaknesses inherent in the sale, marketing and stocking of agriculture produce in the regulated/wholesale markets.
Poverty analysis in the lowlands of Papua New Guinea underscores climate vulnerability and need for income flexibility
A severe El Niño event in 2015/16 decimated an important share of Papua New Guinea's (PNG) local crop production, leaving 10 per cent of the population with significant food shortages.
Diet quality and urbanization in Mozambique
Trade, policy, and food security
How can decisionmakers resolve the tension between optimal long-run policies and short-run initiatives to address food security concerns?
Assessing recall bias and measurement error in high-frequency social data collection for human-environment research
Can systematic use of mobile phones transcend recall bias to create & maintain a true socioeconomic baseline that mirrors measurement collection in the natural sciences?
Data on food insufficiency status in South Africa: Insight from the South Africa General Household Survey
Food insecurity or insufficiency, among other factors, is triggered by structural inequalities. Food insecurity is an inflexible problematic situation in South Africa.
Long-term impacts of an unanticipated spike in food prices on child growth in Indonesia
Welfare effects of weather variability: Multi-country evidence from Africa south of the Sahara
Climate change and weather variability pose serious threats to food and nutrition security as well as ecosystems, especially when livelihoods depend heavily on natural resources.
Farmers’ perceptions of crop pest severity in Nigeria are associated with landscape, agronomic and socio-economic factors
Adoption of the trinity of practices known commonly today as conservation agriculture (CA)—maintaining soil cover, reducing tillage, and enhancing soil nitrogen through legumes—is a critical process to the management of erosion in rural landscapes