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Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Publisher: IICA Biblioteca Venezuela
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 172

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Author: Chelston W. D. Brathwaite
Publisher: IICA Biblioteca Venezuela
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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Author: R. Selvaraju
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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ctives of the study are: (i) to review current knowledge on vulnerability, past trends in climate, and impacts of climate variability and change on agriculture sector, and (ii) to explore technical and policy alternatives in order to cope with and adapt to impacts of climate variability and change more effectively. The study identified what the potential impacts are, considered what interventions are appropriate, and if and where they should occur. The scope of the study focused on broader policy directions and investment priorities in relation to climate change adaptation. The first two chapters of this book present overall background on the agriculture sector and vulnerability context. Chapter 2 specifically presents vulnerability of agro-ecosystems and food production systems in both temporal and special dimensions. Chapter 3 elaborates on the nature of climate variability and expected future changes in climate. The past trends in climate were described based on observation, analysi

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Category : Agriculture and state
Languages : en
Pages : 574

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Category : Agriculture and state
Languages : en
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Author: Brenda Kleysen
Publisher: IICA
ISBN: 9789290392989
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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Author: Derek Gordon
Publisher:
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 74

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Author: Sidney Wilfred Mintz
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ISBN: 9781258091187
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28

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Author: Kene Ezemenari
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 39

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Without the food stamp program, the poverty gap in Jamaica would have been much worse during the early 1990s, when the Jamaican dollar was being devalued. Households with elderly members and young children benefited most from the program.Ezemenari and Subbarao examine how the food stamp program affected measures of poverty during devaluation of the Jamaican dollar in the early 1990s. They find that without the food stamp program, the poverty gap in Jamaica would have been much worse, especially in 1990 and 1991. For the country as a whole, not having a food stamp program wouldn't have affected the incidence of poverty significantly, but particular groups among the poor would have fared worse. Households with elderly residents benefited most from the program. Households with young children benefited more than households without, in terms of the poverty headcount and gap.The program also appears to have had more effect on extremely poor households than on those of the transient poor (people who move in and out of poverty). Explicitly incorporating behavioral responses into the model reduces the contribution of food stamps to household consumption and poverty, but the poorest benefited most from the program even after accounting for behavioral responses. The program contributed more to reducing poverty than to smoothing consumption.This paper - a product of the Poverty Division, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network - was presented at the World Bank Institute workshop Evaluating the Impact of Development Interventions: Concepts, Methods and Cases, December 9-10, 1998.