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A Post‐Area Studies Approach to the Study of Hill Irrigation across the Alai – Pamir – Karakoram – Himalaya
Hill, Joe (2012-06)Due to the geo-political history of the mountainous region stretching from the Alai in the south of Kyrgyzstan to the north-western Himalaya of India, language barriers, and also perhaps the nature of traditional area ... -
Achieving Zero Hunger by 2030 A Review of Quantitative Assessments of Synergies and Tradeoffs amongst the UN Sustainable Development Goals: A paper from the Scientific Group of the UN Food Systems Summit 26 May 2021
Valin, Hugo; Hertel, Thomas; Bodirsky, Benjamin Leon; Hasegawa, Tomoko; Stehfest, Elke (2021-05-26)The Sustainable Development Goal 2 “Zero hunger” (SDG2) sets clear global targets for ensuring access to sufficient food and healthy nutrition for all by 2030, while keeping food systems within sustainable boundaries and ... -
Advance Equitable Livelihoods: A paper on Action Track 4
Neufeld, Lynnette M.; Huang, Jikun; Badiane, Ousmane; Caron, Patrick; Forsse, Lisa Sennerby (2021-03)Food systems transformation provides the opportunity to shift current trends in all forms of malnutrition, prioritizing nutritious food availability and affordability for all – from shifting priorities in agricultural ... -
African agricultural mechanization: Myths, realities and an emerging research agenda
Daum, Thomas; Birner, Regina (2019-12)African farm systems remain the least mechanized of all continents. There were substantial state-led efforts to promote agricultural mechanization during the 1960s and 1970s, but these efforts failed, which led to a ... -
Agricultural Credit System in India: Evolution, Effectiveness and Innovations
Gulati, Ashok; Juneja, Ritika (2019-09)Indian agriculture is dominated by smallholders. With an average holding size of just 1.08 ha (in 2015-16), and 86 percent of holdings being of less than 2 ha size, Indian agriculture produces sufficient food, feed, and ... -
Agricultural Innovations at the Technological Frontier in India
Baraké, Evelyn; Ganguly, Kavery; Gulati, Ashok; von Braun, Joachim (2017-07)Innovations in agriculture hold the key to unlocking sustainable, inclusive growth potential while securing employment opportunities for young people. In India, this has given rise to a new generation of entrepreneurs and ... -
Agricultural Input Use in Nigeria: Consistency, Complementarity, and Credit
Olaoye, Malik (2023-08)There are complex synergies between different agricultural inputs and practices. For example, improved seeds reach maximum yields only in combination with fertiliser, and fertilisers may have limited effects without adequate ... -
The Agricultural mechanization in Africa: micro-level analysis of state drivers and effects
Kirui, Oliver Kiptoo (2019-04)This paper examines the state, drivers and, consequently, the impacts of agricultural mechanization in eleven countries in Africa. Using representative multistage stratified household survey data and robust analytical ... -
Améliorer les perspectives d'emploi pour la jeunesse rurale d'afrique: Exploiter le pontentiel du secteur agricole pour la creation d’emploi à long terme
Buma Dema, Rudolf; von Braun, Joachim; Kofol, Chiara (2017-11)La prévalence d’emplois vulnérables constitue le principal défi du marché du travail dans les zones rurales. L’organisation Internationale du travail estime que parmi les jeunes travailleurs de l’Afrique subsaharienne ... -
Animal traction, two-wheel tractors, or four-wheel tractors? A best-fit approach to guide farm mechanization in Africa
Daum, Thomas; Seidel, Anna; Awoke, Bisrat; Birner, Regina (2022-04)There are heavy - at times dogmatic - debates on which technological pathway toward farm mechanization - animal traction, two-wheel tractors, four-wheel tractors - should be supported by African governments and development ... -
Ausländische Direktinvestitionen im Nahrungsmittel- und Agrarsektor Afrikas: Wie ein besseres Verständnis und eine bessere Ausrichtung von Investitionen ein leistungsfähiges Entwicklungswerkzeug freisetzen könnten
Baraké, Evelyn; Husmann, Christine; Kubik, Zaneta (2019-02)Trotz der Bemühungen der afrikanischen Regierungen, ausländische Direktinvestitionen (DI) in ihren Nahrungsmittel- und Agrarsektor anzuziehen, und der damit verbundenen Gegenkritik wurden überraschend wenig Untersuchungen ... -
Being a muhajir in present-day Afghanistan – Views on flight and migration from inside
Wenzel, Christoph (2013-07)In this paper I focus on the internal discourse of those Afghans who are refugees within their country today. I want to show how the use of a certain vocabulary is crucial for the creation of particular perspectives on ... -
Between pandemics and famines: Towards nutrition-sensitive lockdowns during Covid-19 and beyond
Daum, Thomas; Birner, Regina; Biesalski, Konrad; Blaschke, Nikola; Bosch, Christine; Güttler, Denise; Heni, Jakob; Kariuki, Juliet; Katusiime, Roseline; Seidel, Anna; Senon, Zinsou Narcisse; Woode, George (2020-12)In a moment of global unity, many governments across the world chose the same policy to address Covid-19: lockdowns. Lockdowns helped to “flatten the curve” but often undermined food and nutrition security. Taking a ... -
Beyond adoption: welfare effects of farmer innovation behavior in Ghana
Tambo, Justice A.; Wünscher, Tobias (2016-05)With numerous challenges hindering smallholders’ adoption of externally developed technologies, it is often argued that farmer innovation can play an essential role in rural livelihoods. Yet a rigorous assessment of the ... -
Beyond kinship and tribe: New forms of solidarity and interest representation in Nangarhar province, Afghanistan
Kandiwal, Wali Mohammad (2016-12)In this paper, I show that the establishment of unauthorized settlements on government land in the newly urbanizing peripheries of Jalalabad – the second-fastest growing city of Afghanistan – corresponded with the emergence ... -
Bioökonomie in Nordrhein-Westfalen: Eine Studie zur Neuausrichtung der NRW Bioökonomiestrategie ; Abschlussbericht
Stark, Sascha; Rhyner, Jakob; Börner, Jan; Kopaleyshvili, Alexandra; Middelhauve, Stella (2021-09-28)Um die Eckpunkte einer neuen Bioökonomiestrategie NRW zielgruppengerecht zu formulieren, sollten im Rahmen dieser Studie lokale Potenziale und bioökonomische Initiativen auf Kreisebene identifiziert werden. Für einen ... -
Boost Nature Positive Production: A paper on Action Track 3
Hodson, Elizabeth; Niggli, Urs; Kitajima, Kaoru; Lal, Rattan; Sadoff, Claudia (2021-04-02)Transforming food systems involves five action tracks: i) access to safe and nutritious food, ii) sustainable consumption, iii) nature-positive production, iv) equitable livelihood, and v) resilience to shocks and stress. ... -
Boundaries and Identities: The Case of Gilgit-Baltistan
Dad, Aziz Ali (2016-06)The main argument of the paper is that the absence of Gilgit-Baltistan in the power dispensation and state structure of Pakistan has created a power vacuum in the society, which is gradually filled by sectarian forces, ... -
Building digital bridges in African value chains: Use and impact of digital technologies among agricultural intermediaries
Baumüller, Heike (2023-01)High hopes have been pinned on digital agricultural (D4Ag) solutions to increase agricultural productivity and food security in Africa. Such solutions provide digitally enabled services to agricultural producers and other ... -
Building Resilience to Vulnerabilities, Shocks and Stresses: A paper on Action Track 5
Hertel, Thomas W.; Elouafi, Ismahane; Ewert, Frank; Tanticharoen, Morakot (2021-03-08)Transforming food systems involves five action tracks: i) access to safe and nutritious food, ii) sustain- able consumption, iii) nature-positive production, iv) equitable livelihood, and v) resilience to shocks and stress. ...