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Book (stand-alone)Cash transfer programmes for managing climate risk: evidence from a randomized experiment in Zambia 2017
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No results found.Cash transfer programmes are increasingly being used to combat poverty and hunger as well as to shape the human capital of future generations. Even though most of these programmes are not explicitly designed to help households manage climate risk, there are good reasons to expect that cash transfers can help build household resilience against climatic risk. This study aims to provide an empirical analysis of the effect of weather risk on the welfare of rural households using impact evaluation da ta from the Zambia Child Grant Programme (CGP), together with a set of novel weather variation indicators. -
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Book (series)Land and crop management in the hilly terrains of Central America: lessons learned and farmer - to - farmer transfer of technologies 1997
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No results found.Farmers are constantly being subjected to changes that are beyond their control on account of factors that affect the viability and profitability of their farming enterprises. Therefore in order to sustain agricultural development, farmers must acquire the capacity to respond to these changing situations and opportunities in order to maximize production. Farmers need to be helped to develop this capability by encouraging their innovations and by involving them in a learning process in which they are exposed to new knowledge and technologies.
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