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   Addressing conflict through collective action in natural resource management: a synthesis of experience

   Informes e investigaciones

   Diciembre, 2013

   África, Asia, América central, América del Sur

   Conflictos por Tierra

   conflictos por la tierra

   Ordenación de recursos naturales

   The food security crisis, international "land grabs,? and new markets for environmental services have drawn renewed attention to the role of natural resource competition in the livelihoods of the rural poor. While significant empirical research has focused on diagnosing the links between natural resource competition and (violent) conflict, much less has focused on the dynamics of whether and how resource competition can be transformed to strengthen social-ecological resilience and mitigate conflict.

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   The Feminization of Agriculture with Chinese Characteristics

   Informes e investigaciones

   Junio, 2012

   Asia, China

   Equidad de género

   Desarrollo rural

   Zonas rurales

   Gestión de tierras agricolas

   Agricultura

   Mujeres

   The objectives of this paper are to help build a picture of the role of women in China’s agriculture, to assess whether or not agricultural feminization has been occurring, and if so, to measure its impact on productivity. To meet these goals, we rely on three datasets that allow us to explore who is working on China’s farms and the effects of the labor allocation decisions of rural households on productivity. We find that since 2000, the role of women has increased both in the supply of farm labor and in the duties that women take on in the management of farms.

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   Does land tenure insecurity discourage tree planting?

   Informes e investigaciones

   Enero, 1997

   Indonesia

   Tierras

   Tenencia de la tierra

   Posesión

   It is widely believed that land tenure insecurity under a customary tenure system leads to socially inefficient resource allocation. This article demonstrates that land tenure insecurity promotes tree planting, which is inefficient from the private point of view but could be relatively efficient from the viewpoint of the global environment. Regression analysis, based on primary data collected in Sumatra, indicates that tenure insecurity in fact leads to early tree planting.

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   Nourishing millions: Stories of change in nutrition

   Publicación revisada por pares

   Informes e investigaciones

   Junio, 2016

   Global, Etiopía, Brasil, Perú, Tailandia, Viet Nam, Bangladesh, India, Nepal

   Tierra y Seguridad Alimentaria

   Agricultura

   Seguridad alimentaría

   Pobreza

   Desarrollo sostenible

   Malnutrition costs the world trillions of dollars, but global commitment to improving people’s nutrition is on the rise, and so is our knowledge of how to do so. Over the past 50 years, understanding of nutrition has evolved beyond a narrow focus on hunger and famine. We now know that good nutrition depends not only on people’s access to a wide variety of foods, but also on the care they receive and the environment they live in. A number of countries and programs have exploited this new understanding to make enormous strides in nutrition.

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   What Dimensions of Women’s Empowerment Matter Most for Child Nutrition?

   Evidence Using Nationally Representative Data from Bangladesh

   Informes e investigaciones

   Junio, 2012

   Bangladesh

   Tierra y Seguridad Alimentaria

   Tierra y Género

   Gestión de tierras agricolas

   Seguridad alimentaría

   Equidad de género en el acceso a la tierra

   Investigación

   Desarrollo rural

   Desarrollo sostenible

   Mujeres

   We use data from the 2007 Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey to examine the relationship between women’s status and nutrition in Bangladesh using indicators of empowerment such as mobility, decisionmaking power, and attitudes toward verbal and physical abuse. We also examine the role of variables reflecting maternal education and height, in relation to child nutrition. All models control for age and sex of the child, household wealth, and region.

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   Changing preferences through experimental games: Evidence from sanitation and hygiene in Tamil Nadu

   Documentos de conferencias e informes

   Diciembre, 2016

   India, Asia, Asia meridional

   Much policy interest in sanitation and hygiene promotion focuses on changing behavior and increasing demand for these goods. Yet the effectiveness of large-scale interventions has been mixed, in large part because of the difficulty of changing attitudes on deeply rooted behaviors. This study tests whether an experiential learning exercise structured around an experimental game can be used to shift preferences around sanitation and hygiene.