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Interlinkage between food prices and agricultural wages and implications for farm mechanization in Bangladesh
(2021-12-01)
In recent decades, Bangladesh’s economy has undergone a remarkable structural transformation. Agricultural wages are becoming high while staple food prices are becoming volatile. In the meantime, agriculture has experienced ...
Economic disruptions, markets and food security
(2020-12-30)
Idiosyncratic and covariate shocks have considerable impacts on household food security and welfare. While impacts of covariate and idiosyncratic shocks have been widely documented, the mitigating role of infrastructure ...
Energy efficiency analysis of biomass production: Considering human and draft animal labor inputs in maize-based production systems in the Sudanian savanna agroecological zone, Ghana
(2021-11-08)
The study presented here examines the Emergy-Data Envelopment Analysis (EM-DEA) approach, and its applicability to assess the resource as well as energy use efficiency and sustainability of agricultural production systems ...
Food Security Monitoring for Developing Countries in the Age of Big Data
(2020-02-10)
Approximately 817 million people are currently estimated to be undernourished and 85 million people across 46 countries are estimated to be in need of food emergency assistance over the course of 2019. Conflict, migration ...
Aspirations, shocks, and rural poverty
(2022-11-22)
Poverty remains a persistent problem in many parts of the world, especially in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). In this region, poverty is particularly prevalent in rural areas. Further exacerbating the high levels of poverty is ...