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  1. Library Resource
    Documents de politique et mémoires
    décembre, 2013
    Caraïbes, Afrique septentrionale, Afrique orientale, Asie orientale, Asie méridionale, Europe orientale, Afrique australe, Afrique sub-saharienne, Afrique, Asie

    The 2013 Global Hunger Index (GHI) report-the eighth in an annual series- presents a multidimensional measure of national, regional, and global hunger. It shows that the world has made some progress in reducing hunger since 1990, but still has far to go. The 2013 GHI report focuses on resilience in theory and in practice. The relief and development communities have long struggled to understand why some people fare better than others when confronting stresses or shocks.

  2. Library Resource
    Documents de politique et mémoires
    décembre, 2013
    Caraïbes, Afrique septentrionale, Afrique orientale, Asie orientale, Asie méridionale, Europe orientale, Afrique australe, Afrique sub-saharienne, Afrique, Asie

    Der Bericht zum Welthunger-Index 2013 – der achte in einer jährlich erscheinenden Serie – stellt die Entwicklung des weltweiten, regionalen und nationalen Hungers mittels eines mehrdimensionalen Indexwertes dar. Er zeigt, dass die Weltgemeinschaft bei der Bekämpfung des Hungers seit 1990 gewisse Fortschritte gemacht hat, dass aber noch viel zu tun ist.

  3. Library Resource
    Documents de politique et mémoires
    décembre, 2018
    Afrique australe, Afrique occidentale, Afrique sub-saharienne, Asie méridionale, Asie, Afrique, Bangladesh, Ghana, Zambie

    As climate change makes precipitation shocks more common, policymakers are becoming increasingly interested in protecting food systems and nutrition outcomes from the damaging effects of droughts and floods (Wheeler and von Braun, 2013). Increasing the resilience of nutrition and food security outcomes is especially critical throughout agrarian parts of the developing world, where human subsistence and well-being are directly affected by local rainfall.

  4. Library Resource
    Documents de politique et mémoires
    décembre, 2017
    Afrique australe, Afrique sub-saharienne, Afrique, Malawi

    Contract farming is emerging as an important governance structure in certain agricultural value chains. This study was done with the objectives of understanding the contractual relations between buyers and small-scale growers in the tobacco industry in Malawi and the impact of contract farming on smallholder incomes. Cross-sectional data was collected from 211 contract and 109 non-contract smallholder burley tobacco farmers who sold tobacco in the 2012/13 season. Two analyses were undertaken.

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    seuls les petits agriculteurs peuvent y parvenir

    Documents de politique et mémoires
    décembre, 2003
    Afrique orientale, Afrique occidentale, Afrique australe, Afrique sub-saharienne, Afrique

    Contrairement aux prévisions communément admises quant à l’aggravation du déclin économique de l’Afrique, une récente étude présente une vision alternative plus positive de l’avenir de ce continent. De nouveaux engagements politiques, une gestion du programme de développement sous égide africaine ainsi que l’accroissement de l’intérêt et des investissements dans les petites exploitations agricoles ont le potentiel d’arrêter, voire d’inverser la tendance spiroïdale de la famine, de la pauvreté, de la dégradation environnementale, des maladies et des guerres civiles.

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    only the small farmer can do it

    Documents de politique et mémoires
    décembre, 2002
    Afrique orientale, Afrique occidentale, Afrique australe, Afrique sub-saharienne, Afrique

    "In contrast to popular predictions of Africa’s worsening economic decline, recent research supports an alternative and more positive vision of Africa’s future. New political commitment and African ownership of the development agenda, combined with a renewed focus on and investments in smallholder-led agriculture, have the potential to halt or reverse the current downward spiral of hunger, poverty, environmental degradation, disease, and civil strife.

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    theoretical and empirical analyses from Uganda and Malawi

    Documents de politique et mémoires
    décembre, 2000
    Afrique australe, Afrique orientale, Afrique sub-saharienne, Afrique, Ouganda, Malawi

    This paper examines the effects of tenure on tree management at a community level. First, several important conceptual issues arising from this particular meso-level focus are discussed. Second, a description of the key tenure and tree management issues in Uganda and Malawi is presented. In each case, data representing changes in land use and tree cover between the 1960-70s and 1990s are analyzed. In both countries, there has been significant conversion of land from woodlands to agriculture. Tree cover has been more or less maintained over time in Uganda but has decreased in Malawi.

  8. Library Resource
    Documents de politique et mémoires
    décembre, 2008
    Afrique, Afrique du Sud

    Although wild natural resources are a standard dietary component in southern Africa, little information exists on these resources' specific role in the maintenance of household food security among HIV-impacted households. In this context, the influence of cash savings or income generated through use or sale of natural resources (e.g., using fuelwood instead of electricity to be able to afford to buy food) is also not known.

  9. Library Resource
    Documents de politique et mémoires
    décembre, 2016
    Afrique australe, Afrique sub-saharienne, Afrique, Namibie

    This paper analyses the structure of Namibia’s fishery sector, which consists of both marine-based fisheries and aquaculture. The study examines the sectors’ governance structure and the evolution of fishery stocks and assesses the performance of the sector in terms of catch effort, sectoral contribution to GDP, employment, and contribution to international trade.

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    Documents de politique et mémoires
    décembre, 2016
    Afrique australe, Afrique sub-saharienne, Afrique, Malawi

    Land degradation and soil erosion have emerged as serious challenges to smallholder farmers throughout southern Africa. To combat these challenges, conservation agriculture (CA) is widely promoted as a sustainable package of agricultural practices. Despite the many potential benefits of CA, however, adoption remains low. Yet relatively little is known about the decision-making process in choosing to adopt CA. This article attempts to fill this important knowledge gap by studying CA adoption in southern Malawi.

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