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Measuring progress toward empowerment: Women's empowerment in agriculture index: Baseline report
Malapit, Hazel J.; Sproule, Kathryn; Kovarik, Chiara; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) baseline survey results, summarizing both findings from the WEAI survey and the relationships between the WEAI and various outcomes of interest to the US Government’s Feed the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132826
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Southern African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis
Hachigonta, Sepo (contributor);  … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
eight of the countries that make up southern Africa — Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland …, Zambia, and Zimbabwe — and explores how climate change will increase the efforts needed to achieve sustainable food …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132811
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Aflatoxins: Finding solutions for improved food safety
Unnevehr, Laurian; Grace, Delia - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013
. Aflatoxicosis: Evidence from Kenya by Abigael Obura 3. Aflatoxin Exposure and Chronic Human Diseases: Estimates of Burden of Disease …: Implications for Intervention in Kenya by Sophie Walker and Bryn Davies 8. Market-led Aflatoxin Interventions: Smallholder … Groundnut Value Chains in Malawi by Andrew Emmott 9. Aflatoxin Management in the World Food Programme through P4P Local …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010735453
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Smallholder demand for maize hybrids and selective seed subsidies in Zambia
Smale, Melinda; Birol, Ekin - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013
hybrid maize subsidy in Zambia is selectively biased due in part to its delivery mechanism and the self-selection of farmers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010685095
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Hybrid seed use and diversity of diets among women in smallholder maize: Growing households in Zambia
Smale, Melinda; Moursi, Mourad; Birol, Ekin; De Groote, Hugo - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010705897
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Demand for maize hybrids, seed subsidies, and seed decisionmakers in Zambia
Smale, Melinda; Mason, Nicole - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012
The successful development and diffusion of improved maize seed in Zambia during the 1970s–80s was a major …-generation (F1) hybrid maize seed in Zambia based on a survey of maize growers during the 2010/11 cropping season. We estimate the … in Zambia is still very much an "affair of state" in that farmers' use of F1 hybrids is explained largely by inclusion in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132751
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Who talks to whom in African agricultural research information networks? The Malawi case
Droppelmann, Klaus; Mapila, Mariam A. T. J.; Mazunda, John - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013
The sector-wide approach currently dominates as the strategy for developing the agricultural sector of many African countries. Although it is recognized that agricultural research plays a vital role in ensuring success of sectorwide agricultural development strategies, there has been little or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132662
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Agricultural research, livelihoods, and poverty: Studies of economic and social impacts in six countries
Adato, Michelle (contributor);  … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Those who study global poverty and ways to reduce it face a perennial set of questions: Do advances in knowledge, research, and technology make a real difference in the lives of poor people? What effect does research have on the poor? Who benefits? The contributors to Agricultural Research,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010752679