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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 Institute’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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132731
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011196693
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010735452
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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
crops to be studied, policy analysts require an estimation procedure that is less data-intensive and time-intensive than … standard econometric estimation procedures. In this paper, a relatively new, low-cost procedure, based on demand for food … characteristics, is applied, illustrating its usefulness for analysis of demand for potatoes in Bangladesh and Pakistan. In Asia, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997297
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997375
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Sinopsis: Informe De La Nutricion Mundial 2014: Fortalecer la accion y la responsabilidad para acelerar los progresos en nutricion en el mundo
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); … - 2014
Una buena nutrición es fundamental para promover vidas saludables, medios de subsistencia sólidos y resistentes, y economías prósperas. Sin ella, estos empeños se asientan sobre terreno inestable. Los niños con retraso de crecimiento no pueden crecer ni desarrollarse adecuadamente, y...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132599
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Policy reform toward gender equality in Ethiopia: Little by little the egg begins to walk
Kumar, Neha; Quisumbing, Agnes R. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012
There is growing interest in the role of policy reforms to promote gender equality and empower women, two key …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132619
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Women’s participation in agricultural cooperatives in Ethiopia:
Woldu, Thomas; Tadesse, Fanaye; Waller, Marie-Katherine - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013
-poor women. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132629
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Links between tenure security and food security: Evidence from Ethiopia:
Hagos, Hosaena Ghebru; Holden, Stein - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013
This study uses five rounds of household panel data from Tigray, Ethiopia, collected in the period 1998–2010 to assess the impacts of a land registration and certification program that aimed to strengthen tenure security and how it has contributed to increased food availability and, thus,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132632
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Land rights knowledge and conservation in rural Ethiopia: Mind the gender gap:
Quisumbing, Agnes R.; Kumar, Neha - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
Using the 2009 round of the Ethiopian Rural Household Survey, this paper examines the medium-term impact of the land registration on investment behavior by households, particularly the adoption of soil conservation techniques and tree planting. It investigates whether men’s and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132637