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Scaling up in agriculture, rural development, and nutrition
Linn, Johannes F. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012
experience of scaling up successful interventions in agriculture, rural development, and nutrition under five broad headings: (1 … Agriculture to Reduce Poverty and Hunger by Kevin Cleaver •Moving Local- and Community-Driven Development from Boutique to Large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010735452
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Farmers' health status, agricultural efficiency, and poverty in rural Ethiopia: A stochastic production frontier approach
Ulimwengu, John M. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009
"The A stochastic frontier production function is used to estimate agricultural efficiency index. Then, controlling for household characteristics and other exogenous variables, the efficiency index is regressed on the probability of being sick. Estimation is performed using the treatment effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005038012
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The linkages between agriculture and malaria: Issues for policy, research, and capacity strengthening
Asenso-Okyere, Kwadwo; Asante, Felix A.; Tarekegn, Jifar; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009
profound. Human activity, including agriculture, has been recognized as one of the reasons for the increased intensity of …. Since agriculture is the main activity of rural people in many endemic areas, it has been suggested that effective malaria … control measures can be devised if attention was paid to the two-way effects of agriculture and malaria. There is the need to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005038016
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Strategies and priorities for African agriculture: Economywide perspectives from country studies
Diao, Xinshen; Thurlow, James; Benin, Samuel; Fan, Shenggen - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277431
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Strategies and priorities for African agriculture: Economywide perspectives from country studies
Diao, Xinshen; Thurlow, James; Benin, Samuel; Fan, Shenggen - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010611942
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Developing bioenergy economic and social issues: bioenergy and agriculture promises and challenges
la Torre Ugarte, Daniel G. de - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006
"... There is a clear link between access to energy services and poverty alleviation and development. The first set of critical energy needs are those that satisfy basic human needs: fuel for cooking, heating and lighting, energy for pumping water, and electricity for health and education...
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Village inequality in Western China: implications for development strategy in lagging regions
Xing, Li; Fan, Shenggen; Luo, Xiaopeng; Zhang, Xiaobo - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006
accounts for the largest share of overall income inequality. But agriculture is still the rural people's major source of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005037963
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Scaling up in agriculture, rural development, and nutrition: SUN: a global movement to accelerate reduction of maternal and child undernutrition:
Nabarro, David; Menon, Purnima; Ruel, Marie T.; Yosef, Sivan - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010736357
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Scaling up in agriculture, rural development, and nutrition: IFAD: adopting a new systematic approach to scaling up agricultural and rural development:
Sourang, Cheikh M. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010736358
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Scaling up in agriculture, rural development, and nutrition: Delivering nutrients widely through biofortification: building on orange sweet potato:
Bouis, Howdy; Islam, Yassir - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010736359