Can Smallholder Fruit And Vegetable Production Systems Improve Household Food Security And Nutritional Status Of Women
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| Author | : Kabunga, Nassul |
| Publisher | : Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
| Total Pages | : 40 |
| Release | : 2014-05-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : |
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This paper aims to empirically infer potential causal linkages between fruit and vegetable (F&V) production, individual F&V intake, household food security, and anemia levels for individual women caregivers of childbearing age. Using a unique and rich dataset recently collected from rural smallholder Ugandan households, we show that the use of a qualitative tool to measure household food insecurity is robust and applicable in other contexts. We also show, using robust econometric methods, that women living in F&V-producer households have a significantly higher intake of F&Vs than those living in nonproducer households. Furthermore, F&V-producer households are potentially more food secure, and women caregivers in producer households have significantly higher levels of hemoglobin, rendering the prevalence rates of anemia lower among F&V-producer households. We argue that these effects, modest as they are, could be further improved if there were deliberate efforts to promote the intensification of smallholder F&V production.
| Author | : Al-Haboby, Azhr |
| Publisher | : Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
| Total Pages | : 28 |
| Release | : 2014-05-30 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
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Download Agriculture for development in Iraq? Estimating the impacts of achieving the agricultural targets of the national development plan 20132017 on economic growth, incomes, and gender equality Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This paper estimates the potential effects of achieving the agricultural goals set out in Iraqs National Development Plan (NDP) 20132017 using a dynamic computable general equilibrium model. The findings suggest that raising agricultural productivity in accordance with the NDP may more than double average agricultural growth rates and add an average of 0.7 percent each year to economywide gross domestic product during the duration of the plan. As a consequence, the economy not only diversifies into agriculture, but agricultural growth also lifts growth in the food processing and service sectors. Achieving the yield targets for cereals (especially wheat) and for fruits and vegetables will have the largest impact on economic growth and household incomes. Household incomes will rise by an estimated 3.3 percent annually. This increase in household incomes will benefit the poorest households and female-headed urban households the most due to a combination of lower food prices and higher incomes from labor and land. Reaping these benefits from agricultural growth will critically depend on the implementation of policies and investments to ensure that additional agricultural produce can be marketed efficiently domestically and compete with imports.
| Author | : Doss, Cheryl |
| Publisher | : Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
| Total Pages | : 36 |
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| Genre | : Social Science |
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Download Womens individual and joint property ownership Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Increasingly, womens property rights are seen as important for both equity and efficiency reasons. While there has been debate in the literature about women are better off with individual rights in contrast to rights jointly with their husband, little empirical work has analyzed this question. In this paper, the relationship of womens individual and joint property ownership and the level of womens input into household decisionmaking is explored with data from India, Mali, Malawi, and Tanzania. In the three African countries, women with individual landownership have greater input into household decisionmaking than women whose landownership is joint; both have more input than women who are not landowners. The relationship with other household decisions is more mixed, as is the relationship between housing and input into household decisionmaking. No similar relationship is found in Orissa, India.
| Author | : Chapoto, Antony |
| Publisher | : Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
| Total Pages | : 32 |
| Release | : 2014-07-31 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
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Download Examining the sense and science behind Ghanas current blanket fertilizer recommendation Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This paper was written to help bolster the case and present visual evidence demonstrating why it is important to seriously consider spatial soil fertility variability in Ghana and to promote area-specific fertilizer recommendations. Using geostatistical analysis of soil samples collected from farmer plots in three districts (Tamale Municipality, Savelugu-Nanton, and West Mamprusi in northern Ghana), the paper analyzes spatial variations in soil fertility. The results clearly show that there are variations in soil pH, organic matter content, and available phosphorous even at the community level, supporting the need for Ghana to seriously consider location-specific fertilizer recommendations.
| Author | : Malapit, Hazel J. |
| Publisher | : Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
| Total Pages | : 45 |
| Release | : 2014-09-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
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Download What dimensions of womens empowerment in agriculture matter for nutrition-related practices and outcomes in Ghana? Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This paper investigates linkages between womens empowerment in agriculture and the nutritional status of women and children using 2012 baseline data from the Feed the Future population-based survey in Ghana. The sample consists of 3,344 children and 3,640 women and is statistically representative of the northernmost regions of Ghana where the Feed the Future programs are operating.
| Author | : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |
| Publisher | : Food & Agriculture Org. |
| Total Pages | : 278 |
| Release | : 2018-09-14 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9251305722 |
Download The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2018 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
New evidence this year corroborates the rise in world hunger observed in this report last year, sending a warning that more action is needed if we aspire to end world hunger and malnutrition in all its forms by 2030. Updated estimates show the number of people who suffer from hunger has been growing over the past three years, returning to prevailing levels from almost a decade ago. Although progress continues to be made in reducing child stunting, over 22 percent of children under five years of age are still affected. Other forms of malnutrition are also growing: adult obesity continues to increase in countries irrespective of their income levels, and many countries are coping with multiple forms of malnutrition at the same time – overweight and obesity, as well as anaemia in women, and child stunting and wasting.
| Author | : David J Midmore |
| Publisher | : CABI |
| Total Pages | : 452 |
| Release | : 2015-04-07 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1780645414 |
Download Principles of Tropical Horticulture Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Principles of Tropical Horticulture leads the reader through a background of environmental influences and plant physiology to an understanding of production and post-harvest systems, environmental adaptation techniques and marketing strategies. Focusing on the principles behind production practices and their scientific basis, rather than detailed biological traits of each crop, this text outlines successes and failures in practices to date and sets out how the quantity and quality of horticultural produce can improve in the future. Case studies are frequently used and chapters cover the production of vegetables, fruit and ornamental crops, including temperate zone crops adapted to grow in the tropics.
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| Total Pages | : 464 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
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Download Agriculture, Food and Nutrition for Africa Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
| Author | : Subhasis Mandal |
| Publisher | : Frontiers Media SA |
| Total Pages | : 195 |
| Release | : 2023-11-23 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 2832539386 |
Download Socio-Economic Evaluation of Cropping Systems for Smallholder Farmers – Challenges and Options Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The FAO estimated that five out of six farms in the world are operating less than two hectares of land, suggesting that small-holder farmers are producing over one-third of the global food. The cropping systems practiced by smallholder farmers play a vital role in agri-food production systems and help to reduce hunger, improve nutrition, and provide livelihoods to millions across the developing countries. The performance of these cropping systems has a direct impact on achieving the multiple Sustainable Development Goals (2030) of No Poverty (SDG 1), Zero Hunger (SDG 2), and Good Health and Wellbeing (SDG 3). System intensification is now widely recognized as an essential pathway to achieve food and nutrition security in developing countries. The numbers of smallholder farmers are rapidly increasing in both developing and underdeveloped countries, however, they are increasingly facing challenges to run profitably. Cropping system intensification (CSI) could be one of the ways to make such production systems more remunerative for these farmers.
| Author | : Njuki, Jemimah |
| Publisher | : Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
| Total Pages | : 36 |
| Release | : 2014-07-11 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
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Download Can market-based approaches to technology development and dissemination benefit women smallholder farmers? Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Rural household economies dependent on rainfed agriculture are increasingly turning to irrigation technology solutions to reduce the effects of weather variability and guard against inconsistent and low crop output. Organizations are increasingly using market-based approaches to disseminate technologies to smallholder farmers, and, although women are among their targeted group, little is known of the extent to which these approaches are reaching and benefiting women. There is also little evidence on the implications of womens use and control of irrigation technologies for outcomes, including crop choice and income management. This paper reports findings from a qualitative study undertaken in Tanzania and Kenya to examine womens access to and ownership of KickStart pumps and the implications for their ability to make major decisions on crop choices and use of income from irrigated crops. Results from sales-monitoring data show that women purchase less than 10 percent of the pumps and men continue to make most of the major decisions on crop choices and income use. These findings vary by type of crop, with men making major decisions on high-income crops such as tomatoes and women having relatively more autonomy on crops such as leafy vegetables. The study concludes that market-based approaches on their own cannot guarantee access to and ownership of technologies, and businesses need to take specific measures toward the goal of reaching and benefiting women.
