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Agricultural Growth and Investment Options for Poverty Reduction in Zambia
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Biofuels, Poverty, and Growth: A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis of Mozambique
This paper assesses the implications of large-scale investments in biofuels for growth and income distribution. We find that biofuels investment enhances growth and poverty reduction despite some displacement of food crops by biofuels. Overall, the biofuel investment trajectory analyzed increases Mozambique's annual economic growth by 0.6 percentage points and reduces the incidence of poverty by about 6 percentage points over a 12-year phase-in period. Benefits depend on production technology. An outgrower approach to producing biofuels is more pro-poor, due to the greater use of unskilled labor and accrual of land rents to smallholders, compared with the more capital-intensive plantation approach. Moreover, the benefits of outgrower schemes are enhanced if they result in technology spillovers to other crops. These results should not be taken as a green light for unrestrained biofuels development. Rather, they indicate that a carefully designed and managed biofuels policy holds the potential for substantial gains.
Race to the Top and Race to the Bottom: Tax Competition in Rural China
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Integrating Survey and Ethnographic Methods to Evaluate Conditional Cash Transfer Programs
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Science in Society 51
In this issue: From the Editors Wireless Damages BrainWireless Phone Radiation “Possibly Carcinogenic”European Environment Agency Highlight Mobile Phone Cancer RisksWireless Phones & Brain CancerMobile Phones Damage the Brain Science for DemocracyMae-Wan Ho on Science & Democracy Deadly E. coli OutbreakHow Genetic Engineering May Have Created E. coli OutbreakE. coli O104:H4 A Newly Emergent Pathogen No NuclearFukushima Fallout Quantum Biology & Medicine DNA Sequence Reconstituted from Water Memory?Quantum Coherent Water & LifeQuantum Coherent water Non-thermal EMF Effects, & Homeopathy Letters to the Editor Technology WatchCold Fusion Ready for Commercial Production?CCS Still Not An OptionThe Promise of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Food CrisisThe New Politics of Food Scarcity Freeing the World from GMOsEU Regulators & Monsanto Exposed for Hiding Glyphosate ToxicityUK Supermarkets to label GM Soybean ‘Sustainable’.African Alliances Challenge Introduction of GM TechnologyNijmegen Declared GM-Free through Citizen Action
Epistemologies of Land
Land is at the centre of crucial public debates ranging from climate adaptation to housing and development, to agriculture and indigenous peoples’ rights. These debates frequently become stuck, though, because the meaning of land in different contexts is poorly understood. Bringing together specialists of epistemology and land, this volume is a landmark contribution to understanding land knowledge as a complex factor in these debates. Land has been known in astonishingly different ways throughout history, but in recent decades one particular understanding of land as commodity has become increasingly hegemonic globally. This understanding has enormously destructive effects, not only for man...
Nachituti's Gift
Nachituti’s Gift challenges conventional theories of economic development with a compelling comparative case study of inland fisheries in Zambia and Congo from pre- to postcolonial times. Neoclassical development models conjure a simple, abstract progression from wealth held in people to money or commodities; instead, Gordon argues, primary social networks and oral charters like “Nachituti’s Gift” remained decisive long after the rise of intensive trade and market activities. Interweaving oral traditions, songs, and interviews as well as extensive archival research, Gordon’s lively tale is at once a subtle analysis of economic and social transformations, an insightful exercise in e...
Impacts of IFPRIs Priorities for Pro-poor Public Investment Global Research Program
This report assesses the impact of the International Food Policy Research Institutes (IFPRI) Global Research Program on Priorities for Public Investment in Agriculture and Rural Areas (GRP-3). Initiated in 1998, the stated objectives of the research program were (1) to increase public investment for rural areas and the agricultural sector given that there is an underspending in the sector and (2) to better target and improve efficiency of public resources to achieve these growth and poverty reduction goals, as well as other development goals. GRP-3 evolved out of research on the impacts of alternative types of public spending on income and poverty outcomes in India and China that was c...
