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Empirical chronicling of how agricultural innovation platforms were established in Hwedza, Zimbabwe / Mahiya, Innocent T

Mahiya, Innocent T	Journal Article
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This paper focuses on the establishment of agricultural innovation platforms (AIPs) in the communal areas of Hwedza in Zimbabwe. Through the efforts of non-governmental organisations (NGOs), there have been initiatives to improve agricultural productivity in Africa and Zimbabwe in particular. One such intervention has been the AIPs that seek to bring together all stakeholders who can meaningfully contribute to the improvement of agriculture. Using largely qualitative approaches, data was collected through interviews from small scale farmers as well as different actors who were involved in the AIPs. The respondents in the study also included NGO workers, academic researchers, government workers, traditional leaders, agricultural financiers, extension workers and state-owned institutions. Using Norman Long’s interface analysis as the central theoretical framework, key findings showed that communal areas were active communities that had their own socio-economic network systems which govern how smallholder farmers operate. It also emerged that IPs are a result of a combination of the social and the formal/institutionalised structures that interacted in Hwedza. The paper concludes that IPs were established in Hwedza through a series of interactive processes among actors and these were not always smooth and successful.

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Zimbabwe ; Networks ; Agricultural ; Customary ; Smallholder/Small-Scale Farming ; Innovation Platforms ;
Communal

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ID: 086811

Food in crisis / Iqbal, Badar Alam; Mathur, Navin

Iqbal, Badar Alam	Journal Article
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Publication	2009.
Summary/Abstract	The world is witnessing a food crisis. Surging food grain prices and worsening world supplies are now bringing the food crisis to the boil.The worst affected are the developing economies and least developed economies of the African continent.

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Mexico ; Hungary ; Agricultural ; Food Crisis ; Developing Economies ; African Continent

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ID: 109517

Haiti doesn't need your old t-shirt: the west can (and should) stop dumping its hand-me-downs on the developing world / Kenny, Charles

Kenny, Charles	Journal Article
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2011.

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United States ; Haiti ; Zambia ; Nicaragua ; Developing World ; Agricultural ;
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ID: 102249

Impact of remittances on rural poverty reduction and on rural households’ living expenditure / Wang, Meiyan

Wang, Meiyan	Journal Article
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2010.

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This paper uses survey data from Jiangsu and Anhui provinces to examine the impact of remittances on rural poverty reduction and on rural households' living expenditure. The paper shows that remittances play an important role in rural poverty reduction. The paper also finds that rural households mainly use remittances for current consumption living expenditure rather than for investment living expenditure such as health and housing.

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Rural Poverty ; China ; Economic Growth ; Agricultural ; Jiangsu and Anhui Province ; Living Expenditure ;
Urban Labour Market ; Rural Labour Migration

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ID: 066779

Political economy of food aid in an era of agricultural biotech / Clapp, Jennifer

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Clapp, Jennifer	Journal Article
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2005.

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Economy ; Biotechnology ; Food Security ; Agricultural

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