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Battling Inefficient Food Aid in Post-Conflict-Ridden Communities: Conditional Cash Transfers as an Alternative
Due to budget cuts stemming from the economic recession, many international aid organizations and donor countries are forced to discontinue or downsize aid programs in developing countries. In post-conflict-ridden communities such as those in the Aceh province of Indonesia, people are faced with the...
Land Reforms for Addressing Food Insecurity & Agricultural Stagnation: Options for Pakistan’s Tenth Five-Year Plan 2010-2015
Pakistan’s track record of weak food productivity growth, coincident with high population growth, poses significant food security challenges for the country. Food insecurity in Pakistan is a result of subdued agricultural productivity growth. I argue that this is caused by concentrated land distribution,...