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How to build resilience to conflict: The role of food security
Breisinger, Clemens; Ecker, Olivier; Maystadt, … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
This Food Policy Report explains why there is a need to place even higher priority on food security-related policies and programs in conflict-prone countries, and offers insights for policymakers regarding how to do so. To understand the relationship between conflict and food security, this...
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Innovations in insuring the poor
Hill, Ruth Vargas; Torero, Maximo - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009
the fewest tools to deal with drought, floods, and disease when they occur. Breaking the link between risk and poverty by …
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Droughts and floods in Malawi
Pauw, Karl; Thurlow, James; van Seventer, Dirk - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010
Malawi suffers frequent droughts and floods. In an economy that is heavily dependent on the agricultural sector, it is … combined effects of droughts and floods. This is equivalent to almost US$22 million in 2005 prices. Given their crop choices …
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Hydro-economic modeling of climate change impacts in Ethiopia
You, Gene Jiing-Yun; Ringler, Claudia - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010
Ethiopia is susceptible to frequent climate extremes such as disastrous droughts and floods. These disastrous climatic …
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Rehabilitating agriculture and promoting food security following the 2010 Pakistan floods: Insights from South Asian experience
Dorosh, Paul; Malik, Sohail; Krausova, Marika - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010
The recent floods in Pakistan have had a devastating effect on the Pakistani population. The Office for the … the stakeholders. In the immediate aftermath of the floods, a provision of compensation based on loss of livelihoods might … lessons learned from the relief and rehabilitation response to the 2010 floods should be incorporated in contingency plans for …
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Sarpanch raj: is the President all powerful?
Palaniswamy, Nethra - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010
The policy of mandated representation (reservation) for disadvantaged social groups in Indian village councils or Gram Panchayats has been the subject of numerous studies. The implicit, and often unstated, assumption that underlies most of these studies is that the president of the council is...
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Do external grants to district governments discourage own-revenue generation?: A look at local public finance dynamics in Ghana
Mogues, Tewodaj; Benin, Samuel; Cudjoe, Godsway - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009
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Scaling up in agriculture, rural development, and nutrition: Addressing institutional challenges to large-scale implementation:
Kohl, Richard - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012
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In pursuit of votes: The capture of the allocation of local public goods by the central state in Ghana
Horowitz, Leah; Palaniswamy, Nethra - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010
Decentralization reforms have been the overwhelming response to failures in the targeting of public resources by the central state in developing countries. The policy debate on decentralization typically revolves around several a priori hypotheses on how the design of formal institutions of...
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Indice globale della fame: La sfida della fame 2013: Sviluppare la resilienza delle comunita per la sicurezza alimentare e nutrizionale
von Grebmer, Klaus; Headey, Derek; Bene, Christophe; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
L Indice Globale della Fame 2013 (GHI), relativo ai dati del periodo 2008-2012, mostra che la fame mondiale e diminuita di un terzo rispetto al 1990. Nonostante i progressi, il livello della fame nel mondo rimane "grave", con 870 milioni di persone a soffrirne, secondo le stime...
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