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Scaling up in agriculture, rural development, and nutrition

Linn, Johannes F. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012

Taking successful development interventions to scale is critical if the world is to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and make essential gains in the fight for improved agricultural productivity, rural incomes, and nutrition. How to support scaling up in these three areas, however, is a...

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Demand for high-value secondary crops in developing countries

Bouis, Howarth E.; Scott, Gregory J. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1996

characteristics, is applied, illustrating its usefulness for analysis of demand for potatoes in Bangladesh and Pakistan. In Asia, the …

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Remittances, income distribution, and rural asset accumulation

Adams Jr., Richard H. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1996

—on income distribution and asset accumulation in rural Pakistan. Using income decomposition techniques on a three-year panel …

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The policy landscape of agricultural water management in Pakistan

Aberman, Noora-Lisa; Wielgosz, Benjamin; Zaidi, Fatima; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013

Policy Research Instituteâ€™s Pakistan Strategy Support Program (PSSP) is working to address these topics through high … policy landscape for agricultural water management in Pakistan, to better understand how to engage with stakeholders in the … between various institutions influencing the water sector in Pakistan. Group interviews were conducted with national …

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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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Interventions for achieving sustainability in tropical forest and agricultural landscapes:

Newton, Peter; Agrawal, Arun; Wollenberg, Lini - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013

The rapid expansion of commodity agriculture in tropical forest landscapes is a key driver of deforestation. To meet the growing demand from a more prosperous and expanding global population, it is imperative to develop sustainable commodity supply chains that support higher agricultural...

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Rural banking in Africa

van Empel, Gerard - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010

Many people in the vast rural areas of Africa lack access to financial services, and most commercial banks are not interested in moving into these areas due to their low income levels, lack of scale economies, and poor infrastructure. Also, few banks actually understand the most common economic...

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Policy options for improving regional fertilizer markets in West Africa:

Bumb, Balu L.; Johnson, Michael E.; Fuentes, Porfirio A. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011

A primary motivation for this study is to identify a key set of policy options for improving fertilizer markets in West Africa (among Economic Community of West African States member countries) in ways that ultimately will help improve the efficiency of regional markets and lower the transaction...

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Food safety and developing markets: Research findings and research gaps:

Unnevehr, Laurian J.; Ronchi, Loraine - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014

To better inform donor support for public food safety interventions, this paper reviews the literature on the impact of more stringent food safety standards on developing-country markets. This literature has primarily focused on the market access and economic implications of higher standards in...

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The role of public–private partnerships in promoting smallholder access to livestock markets in developing countries

Rich, Karl M.; Narrod, Clare A. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010

Rising demands for quality and safety measures in high-value agriculture and livestock markets have necessitated the creation of increasingly complex supply chains to manage the flow of goods and information among channel actors. Public–private partnerships (PPPs) can play a key role in...

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