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From parastatals to private trade: Lessons from Asian agriculture

Rashid, Shahidur (contributor); Gulati, Ashok (contributor); … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

policy use case studies from South Asia (Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan) and East Asia (Indonesia, the Philippines, and …

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Agricultural intensification in Africa: A regional analysis:

Nin-Pratt, Alejandro - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2015

This study assesses the patterns of agricultural intensification in 40 African countries looking at the role fertilizer plays in the process. We propose a set of indicators that uses information on available agricultural land and land suitability to measure intensity of land use in agricultural...

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The Asian Green Revolution:

Hazell, Peter B.R. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009

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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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From parastatals to private trade: Lessons from Asian agriculture

Rashid, Shahidur; Gulati, Ashok; Cummings, Ralph Jr. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008

"Governments in Asia used grain price stabilization as a major policy instrument when they began to promote the Green Revolution in the 1960s. In the process, they created parastatal agencies, which were quasi-governmental in nature, to undertake public marketing activities in basic staples such...

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Social learning, neighborhood effects, and investment in human capital

Yamauchi, Futoshi - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2005

schooling investments over time. Using household data available from the onset of the Green Revolution in India—where in some …

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Social learning, neighborhood effects, and investment in human capital: Evidence from Green-Revolution India

Yamauchi, Futoshi - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2005

in India, show that (1) agents learn about schooling returns from income realizations of their neighbors and (2 …

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Institutions and economic policies for pro-poor agricultural growth

Dorward, Andrew; Fan, Shenggen; Kydd, Jonathan; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2004

poverty reduction) to different government spending in India over the last forty years. The results reject the alternate …

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Comparing the evolution of spatial inequality in China and India: a fifty-year perspective

Gajwani, Kiran; Kanbur, Ravi; Zhang, Xiaobo - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006

"In the second half of the last century, both India and China have undergone major transitions and have moved to more … of China's institutional barriers to migration, regional inequality is much higher than in India. Also, China … – since the reform period. From the Green Revolution age to the period of economic liberalization in India, the evolution of …

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Accelerating Africa's food production in response to rising food prices: Impacts and requisite actions

Diao, Xinshen; Fan, Shenggen; Headey, Derek; Johnson, … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008

"In Africa the global food crisis threatens the livelihoods of millions of people who because of high rates of poverty, hunger, malnutrition, and food dependency are already exceptionally vulnerable. In better circumstances, Africa's agricultural sector would respond to rising prices by...

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