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A smarter way to combat hunger

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  • Pedro A. Sanchez

    (Pedro A. Sanchez is senior research scholar and director of tropical agriculture at the Earth Institute at Columbia University, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, New York 10964, USA. psanchez@ei.columbia.edu)

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Traditional approaches to supplying food are an inefficient 'band aid', says Pedro A. Sanchez. New evidence shows that helping farmers to help themselves is more effective and would be six times cheaper.

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  • Pedro A. Sanchez, 2009. "A smarter way to combat hunger," Nature, Nature, vol. 458(7235), pages 148-148, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:458:y:2009:i:7235:d:10.1038_458148a
    DOI: 10.1038/458148a
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    1. Emmanuel Opoku Acheampong & Jeffrey Sayer & Colin J. Macgregor & Sean Sloan, 2021. "Factors Influencing the Adoption of Agricultural Practices in Ghana’s Forest-Fringe Communities," Land, MDPI, vol. 10(3), pages 1-21, March.
    2. Akinwumi A. Adesina, 2010. "Conditioning trends shaping the agricultural and rural landscape in Africa," Agricultural Economics, International Association of Agricultural Economists, vol. 41(s1), pages 73-82, November.

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