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The roles of nutrition-sensitive interventions and market access in enhancing household food security and resilience in Sierra Leone
(2021-05-17)
Using Sierra Leone – a post-conflict country in West Africa – as a case study, this dissertation addresses pressing issues on how to make smallholder agriculture more nutrition-sensitive, mitigate the adverse effects of ...
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 ...
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 ...
Linking land use-land cover change with annual and perennial plant growth models for the spatio-temporal explicit simulation of ecosystem services: A case study in a savanna region of Ghana
(2023-08-30)
Many West African economies have been experiencing fast growth over recent decades. At the same time, their landscapes are also experiencing one of the fastest changes in the world, and the pace has accelerated over recent ...