Agriculture, Food Insecurity and Agricultural Policy in Ethiopia

2005 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.A. Khairo ◽  
G.E. Battese ◽  
J.D. Mullen
Keyword(s):  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Technical Efficiency ◽  
Agricultural Policy ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Agricultural Intensification ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Development Policies ◽  
Efficiency And Productivity ◽  
National Food Security ◽  
Growing Population

Since 1980, Ethiopia has been struggling to feed its growing population, despite the fact that agriculture is the mainstay of its economy. A number of government initiatives aimed at raising food production and ensuring national food security have made little progress in achieving their objectives. This paper identifies some of the implications of the new agricultural intensification programme, focusing on the technical efficiency and productivity of maize growers in the Harari region of Ethiopia for food insecurity and agricultural development policies. The paper concludes that there is scope to improve the technical efficiency of maize farmers and enhance their socioeconomic situation in the Harari region.

scholarly journals Innovative directions of agricultural development aimed at ensuring food security in Russia

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 00068
Author(s):  
Olga V. Kirillova ◽  
Elmira F. Amirova ◽  
Maxim G. Kuznetsov ◽  
Gulnara A. Valeeva ◽  
Galina P. Zakharova
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Research And Development ◽  
Education System ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Innovative Development ◽  
Agricultural Industry ◽  
Innovation Research ◽  
Legal Standards ◽  
National Food Security

The article emphasizes that for the innovative development of the Russian agricultural industry and ensuring the national food security, it is necessary to create a research and development sector in the field of food production; reform the education system for the innovative development of the agricultural industry; re-equip the agricultural industry; build a system of agricultural advisory support for producers; create an intellectual property protection system; improve legal standards for regulating innovation, research and development; pay attention to the needs of agriculture and agro-business, etc.

scholarly journals Biotecnología y seguridad alimentar en los países en desarrollo.

1999 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
William Roca
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Agricultural Intensification ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Economic Reality ◽  
Growing Population

<p>El gran desafío para la agricultura en los próximos 20 años, será el de producir suficiente alimento para la población creciente de los países en desarrollo. En principio hay dos posibles rutas hacia la producción de alimentos a niveles que puedan satisfacer la demanda: La expansión de tierras agrícolas y/o la intensificación agrícola. Por lo expuesto, la contribución de la biotecnología en la lucha por la seguridad alimentaria de los países en desarrollo, dependerá en gran medida de la capacidad para integrar la biotecnología a la realidad socioeconómica del país o región. </p><p> </p><p><strong>Biotechnology and food security in developing countries.</strong></p><p>The big challenge for agriculture over the next 20 years will be to produce enough food for the growing population of developing countries. In principle there are two possible routes for food production to levels that can meet the demand: The expansion of agricultural land and / or agricultural intensification. For these reasons, the contribution of biotechnology in the fight for food security in developing countries depend heavily on the ability to integrate biotechnology in the socio-economic reality of the country or region.</p>

scholarly journals Constraints Encountered by Beneficiary Farmers in Adopting National Food Security Mission (NFSM) Interventions in Selected Districts of Karnataka State, India

2020 ◽  
pp. 114-118
Author(s):  
G. Chaitra ◽  
N. S. Shivalinge Gowda ◽  
Y. N. Shivalingaiah
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Maximum Change ◽  
Karnataka State ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Government ◽  
National Food Security ◽  
Growing Population

India is facing the problem of food insecurity since independence. The Government has taken several measures to overcome this, still there was no maximum change that has taken place in the status of country’s food security. For the growing population the country has to produce more and more year after year. To make this possible the government announced National Food Security Mission Scheme to enhance the productivity of crops and income of the farmers through various crop based interventions. The present study on constraints faced by beneficiary farmers of NFSM in adopting NFSM interventions was undertaken in Belagavi and Haveri districts of Karnataka State with sample size of 180 beneficiaries from different components of NFSM viz., NFSM – Rice, NFSM – Pulse and NFSM – Coarse Cereals. Expost - facto research design of social research was used in the present investigation. The major constraints faced by the beneficiary farmers in adopting NFSM interventions among the beneficiary farmers of Belagavi district were, lesser amount of subsidy (in Rs), limited number of demonstrations and subsidy paid after purchase while an initial payment remains the highest problem. Whereas in case of Haveri district, the major constraints encountered by beneficiary farmers were, poor quality materials/machinery are supplied, non availability of particular seed varieties or hybrids and redtapism.

RESTRICTIONS OF EXTENSIVE PRODUCTION TO ENSURE FOOD SECURITY IN CHINA

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Li ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Food Insufficiency ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Agricultural Mechanization

Being over-dependent on imports, China has been faced with the problem of food insufficiency in recent years.This paper, with the adoption of the indicators of agricultural development and relevant models, aims to explore factors affecting food security in China, in particular, technological elements. The findings demonstrate that technology plays a vital role in improving food production. It is recommended to increase the input of science and technology and improve agricultural mechanization.

Technical efficiency and productivity in ship operation

2013 ◽  
pp. 685-690
Author(s):  
Floriano Pires ◽  
Itamar Azevedo ◽  
Luiz Assis ◽  
Claudio Vieira
Keyword(s):  
Technical Efficiency ◽  
Efficiency And Productivity ◽  
Ship Operation

scholarly journals MAPPING OF DROUGHT AND FOOD INSECURITY REGION IN LEBAK REGENCY, BANTEN PROVINCE

GeoEco ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 127
Author(s):  
Maria Hedwig Dewi Susilowati
Keyword(s):  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Northern Region ◽  
Clean Water ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Poor Families ◽  
Moderate Drought ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Very High

<p><span lang="IN">Drought and food insecurity are recurring disasters in Lebak Regency. The drought is one of the obstacles in increasing food production in Lebak Regency. The objectives of this study <span>are</span> (a) Making maps of the drought and food insecurity region in Lebak Regency; (b) Evaluating the relationship between regions of drought and food insecurity. The analytical method uses spatial analysis and <span>Chi-Square</span> correlation to determine the relationship between drought region and food insecurity region. <span>The results of the analysis concluded that</span></span><span> firstly, </span><span lang="IN">the region of very high drought levels</span><span lang="IN">concentrated in the northern region which was relatively near to the district capital and south (southwest) relatively far from the district capital</span><span>. Second, </span><span lang="IN">the classification of food insecurity found in Lebak Regency is food secure, rather food secure, instead of food insecurity and food insecurity</span><span>.</span><span>Third, </span><span lang="IN">the food insecurity and instead of food insecurity region tend to be in the region of moderate drought levels</span><span>. Fourth, </span><span lang="IN">based on food insecurity region indicators, it is found that the number of poor families and sources of clean water more determines the level of food insecurity, this can se</span><span>e</span><span lang="IN"> from the most significant score compared to other indicators</span><span>. Fifth, t</span><span lang="IN">he relationship between the drought level and food insecurity region is not significant at the 0.05 level, which means that the food insecurity and instead food insecurity region are not always in the high drought region.</span><span lang="IN"> <span>Likewise,</span> the region of food secure and instead food secure is not always in a <span>low</span> dry region.</span></p>

scholarly journals Technical Efficiency and Productivity Growth of Polish Crop Farms

2019 ◽  
Vol 298 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-125
Author(s):  
Jerzy Marzec ◽  
Andrzej Pisulewski ◽  
Artur Prędki
Keyword(s):  
Technical Efficiency ◽  
Productivity Growth ◽  
Efficiency And Productivity

scholarly journals Population and Food Resources

2011 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anamaria CIURE ◽  
Ioan ROTAR
Keyword(s):  
Population Growth ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Food Resources ◽  
Basic Material ◽  
Growing Population ◽  
Malthusian Theory

Demographic explosion of the early modern society, which constituated the basic material for the Malthusian theory, is a major problem of mankind. Population growth remains high in absolute terms (in 1950 lived on earth only 2.5 million inhabitants in 1970 were 3.2 billion and in 2006 were 6.68 billion people). As a result of population growth, agriculture, the main segment which provides food resources, can significantly restrict the activities currently being allotted to each man 0.56 ha farm, of which the 0.26 ha arable. Because scenarios predict a growing population it is required the increasing of current levels of food production more than proportionally with population growth, so as to provide a proper diet for many people.

scholarly journals Comparative market supply of protein from livestock and fish in the selected urban areas of Rajshahi district in Bangladesh

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Md Mizanoor Rahman ◽  
Khan Shahidul Huque ◽  
Nani Gopal Das ◽  
Md Yousuf Ali Khan
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Seasonal Variations ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Resource Base ◽  
Regional Variations ◽  
Initial Work ◽  
Safe Food ◽  
Wet Market

The study was conducted with the objectives to determine the market availability of animal sourced foods (ASF) and fish, and their share in the supply of biomass and protein through visiting the wet markets of metropolitan and municipality areas of Rajshahi district, Bangladesh. A preset questionnaire was used for recording the biomass weight of different ASF and fish in every four days interval in March, 2016. It was found that the supply of ASF (beef, chevon, chicken and egg) and fish in the metropolitan markets (80.20 and 35.89 t/d, respectively) was significantly higher (P<0.05) than any municipality wet market in the district (7.66 and 3.03 t/d, respectively). The market supply of biomass and its protein value of ASF were 3.64 and 4.33 times higher than fish. The chicken shared the highest amount of protein (28.19 %) followed by fish (26.8%), beef (26.21%), eggs (11.46%) and chevon (7.34%) during the study period. However, this initial work does not include milk, and the wet market of ASF and fish may have seasonal variations which needs to be explored through further research. In addition to them, socioeconomic status of consumers and regional variations are important which needs to be studied for addressing resource base safe food production help the strategic reduction of food insecurity in the country by 2030.Res. Agric., Livest. Fish.4(1): 29-36, April 2017

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