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Impact assessment of IFPRI's research and related activities based on economywide modeling

Anderson, Kym - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2003

out the utility of an economywide framework (Section 2), before summarizing the inputs into TMD's economywide modeling and …

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Modeling water resources management at the basin level: methodology and application to the Maipo River Basin

Cai, Ximing; Ringler, Claudia; Rosegrant, Mark W. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006

appropriate unit of analysis for addressing the challenges of water resources management. Modeling at this scale can provide … modeling framework. Integrated hydrologic and economic models are well equipped to assess water management and policy issues in … a river basin setting. McKinney et al. (1999) reviewed state-of-the-art modeling approaches to integrated water …

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Understanding the links between agriculture and health:

Hawkes, Corinna; Ruel, Marie T. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006

CONTENTS: 1.Overview / Corinna Hawkes and Marie T. Ruel; 2. Agriculture, Food, and Health: Perspectives on a Long Relationship / Tim Lang; 3. Agricultural Technology and Health / Michael Lipton, Saurabh Sinha, and Rachel Blackman; 4. Agriculture and Nutrition Linkages: Old Lessons and New...

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Promoting sustainable development in less-favored areas:

Pender, John L.; Hazell, P. B. R. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2000

CONTENTS: Brief 1. Overview / John Pender and Peter Hazell Brief 2. Technologies for the East African Highlands / Frank Place Brief 3. Technologies for the tropical Andes / Tom Walker et al. Brief 4. Technologies for the Southeast Asian Uplands / Sushil Pandey Brief 5. Returns to public...

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Green Revolution

IFPRI - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2002

The "Green Revolution" of the 1960s and 1970s produced an unprecedented growth in agriculture in developing countries. The authors of this Brief examine the Green Revolution's impacts on agricultural production and its social impacts. They then turn to the problems it may have engendered as...

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Strengthening capacity to improve nutrition

Gillespie, Stuart - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2001

A major premise of this paper is that the failure—or limited achievements—of many large-scale nutrition programs is very often a function of insufficient sustainable capacities within communities and organizations responsible for implementing them. Following a brief review of the various...

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Strengthening capacity to improve nutrition

Gillespie, Stuart - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2001

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Identifying the drivers of sustainable rural growth and poverty reduction in Honduras

Jansen, Hans G.P.; Siegel, Paul B.; Pichón, Francisco - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2005

"The overall objective of this paper is to develop an appropriate conceptual and analytical framework to better understand how prospects for growth and poverty reduction can be stimulated in rural Honduras. We employ complementary quantitative and qualitative methods of analysis, driven by an...

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Managing conflict over natural resources in greater Kordofan, Sudan: Some recurrent patterns and governance implications

Siddig, El Fatih Ali; El-Harizi, Khalid; Prato, Bettina - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2007

"Despite the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement, which brought to an end 20 years of civil war in the Sudan, this country continues to experience smaller-scale conflicts, particularly around access to and control of natural resources. Some observers lay the blame for this on ethnopolitical or...

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IFPRI Annual Report 2005-2006: The promises and challenges of biofuels for the poor in developing countries

IFPRI - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006

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