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Public sector agricultural research priorities for sustainable food security: Perspectives from plausible scenarios:
Nelson, Gerald C.; van der Mensbrugghe, Dominique - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
modeling, cooperative use of institutional and outside substantive expertise, and sustained cooperation with model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010781474
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2012 Global Food Policy Report
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); … - 2013
This 2012 Global Food Policy Report is the second in an annual series that provides an in-depth look at major food policy developments and events. Initiated in response to resurgent interest in food security, the series offers a yearly overview of the food policy developments that have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010630750
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004996480
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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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Group lending with heterogeneous types:
Gan, Li; Hernandez, Manuel A.; Liu, Yanyan - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013
omitted-variable problem resulting from unobserved group types when modeling the repayment behavior of group members. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010685634
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A partial equilibrium model of the Malawi maize commodity market:
Mapila, Mariam A. T. J.; Kirsten, Johann F.; Meyer, … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013
This paper presents a model of the Malawi maize commodity market that is developed for use as a policy analysis tool. The model captures national and local maize market dynamics and the linkages existing within the maize market in the country. This research has been undertaken in order to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010634908
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Resilience Programming among Nongovernmental Organizations: Lessons for Policymakers
Frankenberger, Timothy R.; Constas, Mark A.; Nelson, Suzanne - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
This food policy report reviews resilience processes, activities, and outcomes by examining a number of case studies of initiatives by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to enhance resilience capacity, and draws implications for policymakers and other stakeholders looking to strengthen resilience.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010933124
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Climate risk management through sustainable land management in Sub-Saharan Africa:
Nkonya, Ephraim; Place, Frank; Pender, John; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011
Empirical evidence has shown that farmers can adapt to climate change by using sustainable land and water management (SLWM) practices that provide local mitigation benefits, reducing or offsetting the negative effects of climate change at the level of the plot, farm, or even landscape. However,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009366799
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Sustainability, growth, and poverty alleviation: A policy and agroecological perspective
Vosti, Stephen A. (contributor);  … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Developing countries are under pressure to produce more food for their growing populations, conserve natural resources, and reduce poverty. In the short term, however, these goals may compete with one another. This book focuses on the interactions between agricultural growth and environment and...
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Innovation in natural resource management: The role of property rights and collective action in developing countries
Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela (contributor);  … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
International agricultural research is expanding beyond the development of annual crop technologies for individual farms to the development of longer-tern natural resource management techniques for entire landscapes. But technologies of practices with a long lag time between investment and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010752688