The present study aims to investigate the determinants of food security in nine developing and least-developed countries Southeast Asia. By adopting fixed effects model panel regression with interaction terms, using yearly data (2006-2016), results showed that all explanatory variables are significant, except agriculture land Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). Employment agriculture, Consumer Pri...

The purpose of this article is to gain deeper insights into the development process led by international technology transfer and its implications for employment generation by reviewing case studies. It is argued that conventional rice research has fallen in the region of diminishing returns and, hence, greater research resources should be allocated to nonrice research and research based on new ...

Regimes of protection for biodiversity throughout the agricultural landscape are needed to support the agriculture sector in general and farmers in particular. There are many opportunities to establish protective regimes that will contribute to the agriculture sector through “protect-and-connect” policies and practices. These can also contribute to the biodiversity value of natural protected ar...

BACKGROUND There is growing recognition that "nutrition-sensitive" development is necessary to ensure nutrition security and reduce malnutrition. While agriculture has the potential to be a strong driver of malnutrition reduction and serves as the main source of livelihood for approximately two-thirds of East Africa's population, its potential to reduce malnutrition is currently not being reali...

How Did the Great Recession Affect Different Types of Workers? Evidence from 17 Middle-Income Countries This paper examines how different types of workers in 17 middle-income countries were affected by labor market retrenchment during the great recession. Impacts on different types of workers varied by country and were only weakly related to the severity of the shock. Among active workers, yout...

In this study, yield-water and profit function was used to obtain water demand function in agriculture sector. The results showed that the ratio of actual to potential Evapotranspiration had positive, significant effecton the ratio of actual to potential yield for wheat and barley. Also, square ratio of actual to potential Evapotranspiration had negative, significant relationship. After estimat...

South Africa’s high involuntary unemployment and small informal sector is attributed to an underperforming formal sector and barriers-to-entry in the informal sector. This paper examines the economywide linkages between formal and informal economies while accounting for different types of informal activities. A multi-region empirically-calibrated general equilibrium model is developed capturing...

in this study, yield-water and profit function was used to obtain water demand function in agriculture sector. the results showed that the ratio of actual to potential evapotranspiration had positive, significant effecton the ratio of actual to potential yield for wheat and barley. also, square ratio of actual to potential evapotranspiration had negative, significant relationship. after estimat...

• The performance of sector-based approaches in agriculture is, at best, mixed • Even so, the fundamentals of sector-based approaches remain valid to the agricultural sectors of developing countries • Lessons from 10 years of experience need to be taken on board and the underlying causes of underperformance need to be addressed R esearch on sector-based approaches in agriculture suggests that, ...