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1 Amoah, Philip; Drechsel, Pay; Abaidoo, R. C.; Ntow, W. J. 2006. Pesticide and pathogen contamination of vegetables in Ghana’s urban markets. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 50:1-6.
Public health ; Helminths ; Diseases ; Risks ; Vegetables ; Commodity markets ; Irrigation water ; Water quality ; Pesticide residues / Ghana / Accra, Gulf of Guinea / Kumasi / Ashanti
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 362.1 G200 AMO Record No: H038625)
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2 Hector Kobbekaduwa Agrarian Research and Training Institute (HARTI). 2007. Food commodity prices 2000-2007. [Sri Lanka] Colombo, Sri Lanka: Hector Kobbekaduwa Agrarian Research and Training Institute (HARTI). 88p.
Commodity markets ; Price ; Agricultural products ; Rice ; Vegetables ; Fish ; Dried fish ; Eggs ; Coconuts ; Fruits / Sri Lanka
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 338.528 G744 HEC Record No: H046419)
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3 Diaz-Bonilla, E. 2015. Macroeconomics, agriculture, and food security: a guide to policy analysis in developing countries. Washington, DC, USA: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). 611p. [doi: https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896298590]
Macroeconomics ; Agricultural sector ; Agricultural production ; Food supply ; Food security ; Developing countries ; Commodity markets ; Prices ; Development policies ; Economic growth ; Financial policies ; Monetary policies ; Assets ; Fiscal policies ; State intervention ; Poverty ; Farmers ; Sustainability ; Trade policy ; Exchange rate ; Taxes ; Investment ; Funding ; Financial institutions ; Banking ; Savings ; Income ; Subsidies ; Inflation ; Expenditure
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 338.19 G000 DIA Record No: H047365)
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4 Semasinghe, Christina; Benders, Jorien; Vairavamoorthy, Visakan; Fernando, Sudarshana; Drechsel, Pay. 2016. Vulnerability and resilience of the urban food system to extreme weather: a case study of Colombo, Sri Lanka [Abstract only]. In Centre de cooperation Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Developpement (CIRAD). International Conference on Agri-Chains and Sustainable Development: Linking Local and Global Dynamics, Montpellier, France, 12-14 December 2016. Abstracts Book. Paris, France: Centre de cooperation Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Developpement (CIRAD). pp.180-181.
Food supply ; Urban areas ; Weather hazards ; Flooding ; Resilience ; Vegetables ; Fish ; Commodity markets ; Supply chain ; Case studies / Sri Lanka / Colombo
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047892)
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5 Drechsel, Pay; Karg, H.; Appoh, Richard Kofi; Akoto-Danso, E. 2016. Resilience of rural-urban food flows in West Africa [Abstract only]. In Centre de cooperation Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Developpement (CIRAD). International Conference on Agri-Chains and Sustainable Development: Linking Local and Global Dynamics, Montpellier, France, 12-14 December 2016. Abstracts Book. Paris, France: Centre de cooperation Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Developpement (CIRAD). pp.182.
Food supply ; Urban areas ; Rural areas ; Food chains ; Commodity markets ; Merchants ; Agricultural products ; Resilience ; Drought ; Flooding / West Africa / Ghana / Burkina Faso / Accra / Kumasi / Tamale / Ouagadougou
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047893)
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6 Oduol, J. B. A.; Mithofer, D.; Place, F.; Nang'ole, E.; Olwande, J.; Kirimi, L.; Mathenge, M. 2017. Women's participation in high value agricultural commodity chains in Kenya: strategies for closing the gender gap. Journal of Rural Studies, 50:228-239. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2017.01.005]
Gender ; Women's participation ; Agricultural production ; Avocados ; Commodity markets ; Supply chain ; Domestic markets ; Exports ; Farm income ; Farmers ; Households ; Socioeconomic environment ; Decision making ; Strategies ; Case studies / Kenya / Kandara / Marani
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047996)
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In developing economies, well-functioning markets are known to provide the poor with avenues for wealth creation. Using a value chain approach, this paper aims at examining bottlenecks to and opportunities for different categories of women to participate in markets for high value agricultural commodities, with a view to identifying feasible upgrading strategies for the different categories. The findings are based on a case study of Kenya's avocado value chain, which depicts export and domestic market orientation. The data were collected through focus group discussions, key informant interviews, in-depth interviews and household surveys. The results suggest that in the more commercialized and well developed chains like that of export, upgrading strategies vary for the different typologies of women. While women in female headed households may require limited efforts such as tailoring financial products to their needs or providing interlinked services coupled with prompt payment for their produce to allow them to produce quality fruits and access lucrative markets, women in male headed households need institutionalization of gender-sensitive policies in the governance of producer groups to enable them to upgrade as chain integrators and chain owners. In the less commercialized domestic chain, limited efforts may be required to upgrade women along the chain, but the need to change from the less marketable local variety to exotic variety is likely to alter women's position, thereby calling for the need to institutionalize gender-sensitive policies in the governance of existing organized groups and use the groups as a platform to introduce the new variety.
7 de Silva, Sanjiv; Curnow, J.; Ariyaratne, Ranjith. 2016. Resilience and prosperity through agro-well driven cultivation in the north central province, Sri Lanka: a case study on its evolution, structure and impacts. In Pathmarajah, S. (Ed.). Symposium Proceedings of Groundwater Availability and Use in the Dry Zone of Sri Lanka, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, 22 July 2016. Peradeniya, Sri Lanka: Cap-Net Lanka; University of Peradeniya. Postgraduate Institute of Agriculture (PGIA) pp.33-49.
Agricultural practices ; Cultivation ; Arid zones ; Vegetable growing ; Groundwater extraction ; Smallholders ; Farmers ; Highlands ; Cropping patterns ; Seasonal cropping ; Rice ; Maize ; Commodity markets ; Aquifers ; Water availability ; Poverty ; Households ; Farm income ; Economic aspects ; Case studies / Sri Lanka / North Central Province
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048017)
Agricultural practices are changing at an unprecedented rate in small pockets of the dry zone of Sri Lanka. Commercial vegetable production is flourishing underwritten by groundwater accessed via agro-wells, increased market access and new business opportunities. Since the early 1990s, small-holder farmers have been excavating agro-wells for highland field irrigation and reaping unprecedented returns. Highland fields were previously subject to rain-fed shifting cultivation with long fallow periods. Water from agro-wells with the addition of chemical inputs, along with the advent of mobile phones, reliable road transport, new markets, greater access to credit and a more secure post-conflict environment, have now made frequent highland cropping viable and profitable. This has ignited the entrepreneurial spirit of farmers whose financial inputs and investments and labour is bringing rapid socio-economic transformation. In a country where the dry zone constitutes roughly a third of the land area, and where many dry zone households lack surface water for dry season cropping, these pockets of groundwater driven dry season production may pose a way out of poverty. While acknowledging the significant impact of agro-well-based farming in lifting farmers out of poverty, the paper ends on a cautionary note. This type of agricultural intensification is predicated on a social-ecological system linked to a specific institutional architecture and an aquifer with highly variable water availability. Current success in poverty alleviation masks an inherent fragility and risk that warrants further investigation before attempts are made to scale out groundwater based dry season farming to other parts of the dry zone.
8 De Angelis, E.; Metulini, R.; Bove, V.; Riccaboni, M. 2017. Virtual water trade and bilateral conflicts. Advances in Water Resources, 110:549-561. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.advwatres.2017.04.002]
Virtual water ; International trade ; Water scarcity ; Conflicts ; Commodity markets ; Strategies ; Models ; Economic aspects ; Political aspects
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048526)
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In light of growing water scarcity, virtual water, or the water embedded in key water-intensive commodities, has been an active area of debate among practitioners and academics alike. As of yet, however, there is no consensus on whether water scarcity affects conflict behavior and we still lack empirical research intending to account for the role of virtual water in affecting the odds of militarized disputes between states. Using quantitative methods and data on virtual water trade, we find that bilateral and multilateral trade openness reduce the probability of war between any given pair of countries, which is consistent with the strategic role of this important commodity and the opportunity cost associated with the loss of trade gains. We also find that the substantive effect of virtual water trade is comparable to that of oil and gas, the archetypal natural resources, in determining interstate conflicts’ probability.
9 Karg, H.; Akoto-Danso, E. K. 2018. Food flows. In Karg, H.; Drechsel, Pay (Eds.). Atlas of West African urban food systems: examples from Ghana and Burkina Faso. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE). pp.38-49.
Food supply ; Food production ; Domestic production ; Imports ; Modes of transport ; Commodity markets ; Food composition ; Vegetables ; Tubers ; Cereals ; Fruits ; Livestock ; Fish ; Nutrition ; Monetary situation ; Indicators / Ghana / Burkina Faso / Tamale / Ouagadougou
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049022)
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