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Improving the effectiveness of rural development policy in Chile

Is sustainable development of semi-subsistence mixed crop-livestock systems possible? : an integrated assessment of Mach...

Sub-Saharan Africa countries face the challenge of reducing rural poverty and reversing the declining trends of agricultural productivity and the high levels of soil nutrient depletion. Despite of numerous efforts and investments, high levels of poverty and resource degradation persist in African agriculture. The Millennium Development Goals Report...

Programa Nacional de Agrologística : informe 4: Hoja de Ruta 2018

National Agrologistics Program : report 4: 2018 Roadmap

Mobiles for agricultural development : exploring trends, challenges and policy options for the Dutch government

Currently many initiatives for m-Agri Apps for smallholder development are taking place. The effectiveness and sustainability of the development is promising, however factual evidence of its impact on livelihood improvements is still rare. As a whole the development of m-Agri Apps is mainly stimulated by donor incentives. Among different stakeholde...

Upscaling the impact of sustainability certification initiatives; Enabling conditions and policy recommendations for reg...

Sustainability certification is seen by many as an important means to make supply chains more sustainable. Even though there is some robust evidence on farm-level impacts of certification, and more studies are underway, very little information is available on regional level impacts of certification initiatives. In this study, we offer recommendatio...

Resilience in rural social-ecological systems : a spatially explicit agent-based modelling approach

Rural areas are increasingly changed by drivers on large spatial scales such as economic globalization and climate change. These international drivers may bring forth abrupt disturbances, such as high output price peaks and falls, water floods and droughts, and massive outbreaks of animal diseases which negatively affect a rural areas’ environmenta...

The purification of aid : an ethnography of Dutch partnership policy and (broken) dreams of development

This thesis explores the shift from ownership to partnership policy in Dutch development aid. It is an ethnography based on participant observation during several periods between 2001 and 2006 in the Ministry’s headquarters in The Hague and the Dutch embassy in developing country Z. The aim of this research is neither to criticize nor to defend dev...

Shocks, civil war and economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Foreign aid, low institutional quality and civil wars are associated with slow economic development in many Sub-Sahara African countries. I aim to identify causal relations and mechanisms that explain significant correlations. I use both macro- and micro-economic data and show that results are not necessarily far apart. I assess the influence of fo...