Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 15
Cover Image
Infrastructure and cluster development: A case study of handloom weavers in Ethiopia
Ayele, Gezahegn; Chamberlin, Jordan; Moorman, Lisa; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009
Rural non-farm development plays a key role in generating employment in many developing countries. Clustering is an important industrial organization in the rural non-farm sector. Based on primary surveys of both urban and rural handloom weaver clusters in Ethiopia which took place in May/June...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010933117
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
Reshaping agriculture for nutrition and health: An IFPRI 2020 book
Fan, Shenggen; Pandya-Lorch, Rajul - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
The fundamental purpose of agriculture is not just to produce food and raw materials, but also to grow healthy, well … require closer collaboration across the sectors of agriculture, nutrition, and health, which have long operated in separate … spheres with little recognition of how their actions affect each other. It is time for agriculture, nutrition, and health to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277433
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
Reshaping agriculture for nutrition and health: An IFPRI 2020 book
Fan, Shenggen; Pandya-Lorch, Rajul - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012
The fundamental purpose of agriculture is not just to produce food and raw materials, but also to grow healthy, well … require closer collaboration across the sectors of agriculture, nutrition, and health, which have long operated in separate … spheres with little recognition of how their actions affect each other. It is time for agriculture, nutrition, and health to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010611943
Cover Image
R&D investment in national and international agricultural research
Pratt, Alejandro Nin; Fan, Shenggen - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010
This paper estimates required investment and its allocation among different regions to maximize agricultural output gains and poverty reduction. The analysis uses a social welfare function to simulate the optimal allocation of research and development (R&D) investment across developing regions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008505338
Cover Image
Lessons learned from the dragon (China) and the elephant (India): essays from IFPRI's 2004-2005 Annual Report [In Chinese]
von Braun, Joachim; Gulati, Ashok; Fan, Shenggen; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2005
"The world made significant progress on reducing poverty between 1981 and 2001 — the number of people in developing countries living on less than US$1 a day fell from 1.5 billion to 1.1 billion, or from 40 to 21 percent of the world's population. In fact, however, nearly all this progress...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004996820
Cover Image
Lessons learned from the dragon (China) and the elephant (India): Essays from IFPRI's 2004-2005 Annual Report
von Braun, Joachim; Gulati, Ashok; Fan, Shenggen; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2005
"The world made significant progress on reducing poverty between 1981 and 2001 — the number of people in developing countries living on less than US$1 a day fell from 1.5 billion to 1.1 billion, or from 40 to 21 percent of the world's population. In fact, however, nearly all this progress...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004996823
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
A typology for vulnerability and agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa:
Zhang, Xiaobo; Rockmore, Marc; Chamberlin, Jordan - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2007
focus on risk related to agriculture, since vulnerability and agriculture are intimately linked in SSA due to the location … of the poor, their dependence on agriculture and the inherent risks of an agricultural livelihood. We argue that …, agriculture is not homogeneous, and the inherent risks vary across countries and regions. Therefore, we also discuss appropriate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005038028