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DocumentOther documentZambia’s Child Grant Programme: 24-month impact report on productive activities and labour allocation
Zambia country case study report
2014Also available in:
No results found.This report uses data from a 24-month randomized experimental design impact evaluation to analyse the impact of the Zambia Child Grant Programme (CGP) on individual and household decision making including labour supply, the accumulation of productive assets and other productive activities. The general framework for empirical analysis is based on a comparison of programme beneficiaries with a group of controls interviewed before the programme began and again two years later, using both single and double difference estimators. The findings reveal overall positive impacts of the CGP across a broad spectrum of outcome indicators and suggest that the programme is achieving many of its intended objectives. Specifically, we find strong positive impacts on household food consumption and investments in productive activities, including crop and livestock production. The programme is associated with large increases in both the ownership and profitability of non-farm family businesses; reductions in household debt levels; increases in household savings; and concordant shifts in labour supply from agricultural wage labour to better and more desirable forms of employment. The analysis reveals important heterogeneity in programme impacts, with estimated magnitudes varying over household and individual characteristics. -
DocumentOther documentLesotho’s Child Grant Programme: 24-month impact report on productive activities and labour allocation
Lesotho country case study report
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DocumentOther documentLocal Economy-wide Impact Evaluation (LEWIE) of Zambia’s Child Grant Programme 2014
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No results found.The Zambia Child Grant Programme (CGP) provides a bi-monthly cash transfer to households with children under five years of age, with the goal of reducing “extreme poverty and the intergenerational transfer of poverty” in programme households. The CGP provides a significant infusion of cash into Zambia’s rural economy. When beneficiaries spend the cash transfer they transmit the impact to others inside and outside the local economy, more often to households not eligible for the cash transfer who tend to own most of the local businesses. The impact of the CGP on the local economy was simulated using a LEWIE (Local Economy Wide Impact Evaluation) model, focusing on the three districts where the programme is located and included in the CGP impact evaluation. The LEWIE model for the CGP found that the transfers could lead to relatively large income multipliers of ZMK 1.79. That is, every Kwacha transferred to poor households had the potential to raise local income by ZMK 1.79. Eligible hous eholds receive the direct benefit of the transfer, while ineligible households receive the bulk of the indirect benefit. However, if labour, capital and land markets do not function well upward pressure on prices could result. This would raise consumption costs for all households and lead to a real income multiplier that is lower than the nominal multiplier. This real income multiplier could be as low as ZMK 1.34. Complementary programmes that increase the supply response (such as access to cred it to invest in capital) could increase the real-income and production impacts of the programme.
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Contributing to food security and nutrition for all
2016This issue of The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture aims to provide objective, reliable and up-to-date data and information to a wide range of readers – policy-makers, managers, scientists, stakeholders and indeed all those interested in the fisheries and aquaculture sector. As always, the scope is global and the topics many and varied. This edition uses the latest official statistics on fisheries and aquaculture to present a global analysis of trends in fish stocks, production, p rocessing, utilization, trade and consumption. It also reports on the status of the world’s fishing fleets and analyses the make-up of human engagement in the sector. Other materials related to the main publication are also available:- Read the Booklet
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Book (stand-alone)Technical bookThe future of food and agriculture - Trends and challenges 2017
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No results found.What will be needed to realize the vision of a world free from hunger and malnutrition? After shedding light on the nature of the challenges that agriculture and food systems are facing now and throughout the 21st century, the study provides insights into what is at stake and what needs to be done. “Business as usual” is not an option. Major transformations in agricultural systems, rural economies, and natural resources management are necessary. The present study was undertaken for the quadrennial review of FAO’s strategic framework and for the preparation of the Organization Medium-Term plan 2018-2021. -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetBrochureFood wastage footprint & Climate Change 2015
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No results found.The 2011 FAO assessment of global food losses and waste estimated that each year, one-third of all food produced in the world for human consumption never reached the consumer’s table. This not only means a missed opportunity for the economy and food security, but also a waste of all the natural resources used for growing, processing, packaging, transporting and marketing food. Through an extensive literature search, the 2011 assessment of food wastage volumes gathered weight ratios of food losse s and waste for different regions of the world, different commodity groups and different steps of the supply chain. These ratios were applied to regional food mass flows of FAO’s Food Balance Sheets for the year 2007. Food wastage arises at all stages of the food supply chains for a variety of reasons that are very much dependent on the local conditions within each country. At a global level, a pattern is clearly visible; in high income regions, volumes of wasted food are higher in the processin g, distribution and consumption stages, whereas in low-income countries, food losses occur in the production and postharvesting phases.