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Foreign Aid and Sustainable Agriculture in AfricaFrom the book: Aid Effectiveness for Environmental Sustainability
Agriculture Sustainable development Food securityBook Chapter
Financing Sustainable Agriculture under Climate Change with a Specific Focus on Foreign AidFrom the book: Aid Effectiveness for Environmental Sustainability
Sustainable development Foreign aid AgricultureWorking Paper
Contracts between smallholders and private firms in Mozambique and their implications on food securityThe focus of this paper is the role played in rural contexts by contract farming agreements between smallholders and private investors...
Contract farming Food security MozambiqueWorking Paper
Economic impacts of developing a biofuel industry in MozambiqueMozambique is one of the most promising African countries for producing biofuels and the national biofuel policy of 2009 identifies measures to incentivize biofuel production...
Biofuel Computable general equilibrium Food securityWorking Paper
Social protection in an aspiring ‘developmental state’: The political drivers of Ethiopia’s PSNPEthiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme is among the largest social protection programmes in Africa and has been promoted as a model for the continent...
Food security Political settlements Process tracingWorking Paper
India’s political economy responses to the global food price shock of 2007–08: Learning some lessonsIndia’s policy responses to the food price crisis were strong. Exports of basic staples were banned. Domestic support prices of wheat and rice were raised substantially...
Agriculture Food industry and trade Food securityVideo
Agriculture Adaptation OptionsConference on Climate Change and Development Policy - Parallel 5.3
Natural disasters Financial crisis AgricultureJournal Article
Brazilian South–South Development Cooperation: The Case of the Ministry of Social Development in AfricaPart of Journal Special Issue Aid, Social Policy and Development
Economic assistance and foreign aid Food security International economic relationsBlog
The Political Economy of Food Price Policy - An Interview with Per Pinstrup-Andersen
In this interview, Per Pinstrup-Andersen talks about the international project which has culminated in the book Food Price Policy in an Era of Market Instability . (Oxford University Press, 2015) More about the project ...
Agricultural industries Food security Food supplyBlog
From the Editor's Desk (May 2015)
May is always a hopeful month. With 18 hours of daylight we are all perky—especially the seagulls who swarm around Helsinki harbour. Here at UNU-WIDER the communications team is busy with the new website which will roll out later in the year...
Agricultural industries Economic assistance and foreign aid Food securityResearch Brief
Children’s nutrition status in Mozambique: Determining the impact of rising food pricesEvidence obtained from detailed household surveys in Mozambique during the 2008-09 food price shock reveals just how pronounced the impact of food price inflation can be on children’s overall nutrition status...
Agriculture Children Climatic changesResearch Brief
Burkina Faso – growth without poverty reductionBurkina Faso is a landlocked country in West Africa, poor in natural resources, and with low levels of human development. Its economy remains agricultural and focused on food crops and cotton production...
Agriculture Equality and inequality Food securityPresentation
Presentation at the AERC Policy Seminar
Policy seminar
Food price policy in an era of market instability - a political economy analysis
Blog
How Can Governments Better Respond to Global Food Price Fluctuations? Much of UNU-WIDER’s research in the last few years was initiated under the 2010-13 work programme on the triple crisis of finance, food, and climate change. The financial crisis from 2008 onwards has received massive worldwide attention...
Economic policy Structural adjustment (Economic policy) Food securityResearch Brief
The political economy of food price policy in EgyptThe Egyptian food system has been affected by both global food markets and domestic factors...
Agriculture Fiscal policy Food industry and trade