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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 ...