Whereas sub-Saharan Africa's (SSA) water scarcity, food, nutrition and health challenges are well-documented, efforts to address them have often been disconnected. Given that the region continues to be affected by poverty and food and nutrition insecurity at national and household levels, there is a need for a paradigm shift in order to effectively deliver on the twin challenges of food and nut...

We analyse intertemporal poverty in two important dimensions – income and nutrition – in less developed northwest China during 2000-2004. A generalised recursive selection model is proposed which enables simultaneous estimation of the causes of intertemporal poverty within and between dimensions. Improvement in agricultural production is crucial for reducing both dimensions of intertemporal pov...

There has been a growing interest of China‟s rapid economic growth, particularly agriculture-led growth and poverty reduction. In fact, China and Africa have developed their agriculture under different historical conditions. China‟s agriculture-led growth and poverty reduction and small holder based agricultural development policy can provide useful experiences for Africa countries to develop t...

Agricultural growth has long been recognized as an important instrument for poverty reduction. Yet, measurements of this relationship are still scarce and not always reliable. This paper presents additional evidence at both the sectoral and household levels based on recent data. Results show that rural poverty reduction has been associated with growth in yields and in agricultural labor product...

most developing countries have achieved productivity growth in economic sectors like agriculture for more than 30 years. universities and governmental research centers have tried to generate knowledge with direct social and economic effects during these decades. so, productivity and production growth can be attributed to technological changes made possible through investment in agricultural res...

Overall, the role of agricultural growth in reducing poverty is likely to be greater than its role in driving economic growth. This is likely to be the case because the share of the labour force that works in the agriculture sector is much larger than the share of economic output that comes from agriculture. For the least-developed countries, the share of the total economically active populatio...

As the goals of international agricultural research move beyond increasing food production to the broader aims of reducing poverty, both agricultural research and studies of its impact become more complex. Yet examining the magnitude and mechanisms through which different types of agricultural research are able to help the poor is essential, not only to evaluate claims for continued funding of ...

There has been much controversy over the impacts of trade liberalization on poverty. Some have argued that trade liberalizations are beneficial to the poor in developing countries, while others have argued that the gains will be captured more by the non-poor. The policies of trade liberalization in China have reduced the NPRs of some agricultural products, which cut down the welfare of its prod...

Abstract The close relationship between water and poverty has been proven in several types of research. Water Poverty Index is an interdisciplinary approach for quantifying the socioeconomic aspects scarcity. enhanced (eWPI) aggregated five components: Resources, Access, Capacity, Use, Environment a Pressure-State-Response framework. In this research, eWPI computed on two scales: four community...