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Strengthening capacity for resilient food systems: Approaches and research gaps:

Babu, Suresh Chandra; Blom, Sylvia - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014

In the wake of the food and financial crises of 2007â€“2008 and 2011, building resilient food systems to achieve food security for all has become one of the top goals of the development agenda.

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Capacity development for resilient food systems: Issues, approaches, and knowledge gaps:

Babu, Suresh Chandra; Blom, Sylvia - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014

categorized into three subsystems: a policy system; markets, trade, and institutions; and a production system. Within each of …

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The six "ins" of climate-smart agriculture: Inclusive institutions for information, innovation, investment, and insurance:

Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela; Bernier, Quinn; Haglund, Eric - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013

This paper reviews the central role of institutions for climate-smart agriculture (CSA), focusing on the role of … institutions in promoting inclusivity, providing information, enabling local level innovation, encouraging investment, and offering … role of state, collective action, and market institutions at multiple levels, with particular attention to the importance …

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Rural institutions and producer organizations in imperfect markets: experiences from producer marketing groups in semi-arid eastern Kenya

Shiferaw, Bekele; Obare, Gideon; Muricho, Geoffrey - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006

complementary institutions and coordination mechanisms to exploit scale economies. The effectiveness of PMGs was determined by the …

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The voracious appetites of public versus private property: a view of intellectual property and biodiversity from legal pluralism

Wiber, Melanie G. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2005

only from legal institutions that mediate property rights, but also from social institutions that determine and distribute … rights, and how these legal and social institutions interface. The three-tiered model presented in this paper ideological …

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Collective action in plant genetic resources management: gendered rules of reputation, trust and reciprocity in Kerala, India

Padmanabhan, Martina Aruna - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006

"Collective action aims at the joint management of common pool resources. Agrobiodiversity at the community level is conceptualized as a collective resource requiring the management of varieties, species and their interrelations within a farming-system. In the rice dominated agriculture in the...

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Methods for studying collective action in rural development:

Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela; Di Gregorio, Monica; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2004

With renewed recognition of the importance of collective action in many aspects of agriculture, natural resource management, and rural development programs in developing countries, there is a need for research on the factors that affect its emergence, as well as its performance. Yet because of...

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International conference on policy and institutional options for the management of rangelands in dry areas: workshop summary paper

Ngaido, Tidiane; McCarthy, Nancy; Di Gregorio, Monica - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2002

working groups evaluated outcomes of policies and institutions guiding rangeland management in terms of their impact on …

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Breaking the norm: An empirical investigation into the unraveling of good behavior

Hill, Ruth Vargas; Maruyama, Eduardo; Viceisza, Angelino - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010

We present results from an artefactual field experiment conducted in rural Peru that considers how observing nonreciprocal behavior influences an individual's decision to reciprocate. Specifically, we consider the behavior of second movers in a trust game, assessing how their decision to...

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Regional policy networks: IFPRI's experience with decentralization

Paarlberg, Robert - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2005

"IFPRI, traditionally a centralized development organization, is now embracing networks as one institutional strategy to achieve “regional decentralization.” Since 1999 IFPRI has developed and operated two formal regional networks, in East Africa and South Asia, and additional regional...

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