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Climate change implications for water resources in the Limpopo River Basin

Zhu, Tingju; Ringler, Claudia - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010

hydrology and irrigation in parts of the four riparian countries within the basin: Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa, and …

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Do differences in the scale of irrigation projects generate different impacts on poverty and production?

Dillon, Andrew - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010

assess whether the scale of an irrigation project increases household welfare in Mali. Much of the evidence of the impact of … irrigation does not use counterfactual analysis to estimate such impact or distinguish between the scale of the irrigation … projects to be evaluated. In the dataset collected by the author, both a large-scale irrigation project and small …

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Impact of water user associations on agricultural productivity in Chile:

McCarthy, Nancy; Essam, Timothy - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009

evaluate factors affecting the decision to participate in yearly irrigation maintenance activities, and the influence of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004987175

Collective action and property rights for sustainable development:

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

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Building on successes in African agriculture:

Haggblade, Steven - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2004

CONTENTS: 1. African Agriculture: Past Performance, Future Imperatives / Steven Haggblade, Peter Hazell, Ingrid Kirsten, and Richard Mkandawire; 2. Generalizing from Past Successes / Steven Haggblade; 3. Recent Growth in African Cassava / Felix Nweke, Steven Haggblade, and Ballard Zulu; 4. Maize...

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Reducing poverty and hunger in India: the role of agriculture

Ahluwalia, Montek S. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2005

"India's strategy for reducing poverty and hunger has always placed a great deal of importance on the agricultural sector, reflecting the fact that 70 percent of the population lives in rural areas and the overwhelming majority of them depend upon agriculture as their primary source of income....

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Information flow and acquisition of knowledge in water governance in the Upper East Region of Ghana:

Schiffer, Eva; McCarthy, Nancy; Birner, Regina; Waale, … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008

"This paper provides an assessment of information flows and the acquisition of knowledge in water governance of the Upper East Region, Ghana. These flows are patchy, often parallel, disconnected or slow. In many cases a great deal of information is gathered but for a number of reasons not...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005038026

Access to irrigation and the escape from poverty: Evidence from Northern Mali

Dillon, Andrew - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008

"Significant changes in the agricultural sector in northern Mali suggest that irrigation has made a large contribution … difference in differences with a small panel, this study estimates the impact of access to irrigation on poverty, production, and … agricultural production induced by irrigation yield higher household savings, or (2) intra-village transfers from irrigators to non …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005038145

Integrated management of the Blue Nile Basin in Ethiopia: Hydropower and irrigation modeling

Block, Paul J. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2007

untapped potential for irrigation and hydropower development and expansion. Numerous hydrologic models have been developed to … assess hydropower and agricultural irrigation potential within the basin, yet often fail to adequately address critical …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005038157

Foreign aid to agriculture: Review of facts and analysis

Islam, Nurul - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011

This paper seeks to provide a consistent and comparable set of data on the trends in the provision of aid to agriculture over time within the framework of changes in the pattern of sectoral distribution of total development aid. Furthermore, it examines the factors, relating both to the...

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