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Agriculture, food, and health perspectives on a long relationship: understanding the links between agriculture and health
Lang, Tim - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006
"Agriculture produces food fundamental for human health. It therefore seems obvious that agriculture, food, and health … are related! Agriculture affects whether people have enough food to eat, whether it is of sufficient nutritional value … different ways of looking at the relationships between agriculture, food, and health. Agricultural connections to food and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004996953
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Assessing development strategies and Africa's food and nutrition security
Heidhues, Franz; Atsain, Achi; Nyangito, Hezron; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2004
"On average, a typical developing country in Africa is assisted by about 30 aid institutions in the implementation of development strategies, yet Africa is still far from achieving food and nutrition security. Adequate access to food that is necessary for food security must be complemented with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004996959
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Assessing development strategies and Africa's food and nutrition security
Heidhues, Franz; Atsain, Achi; Nyangito, Hezron; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2004
"On average, a typical developing country in Africa is assisted by about 30 aid institutions in the implementation of development strategies, yet Africa is still far from achieving food and nutrition security. Adequate access to food that is necessary for food security must be complemented with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997039
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Contract farming of swine in Southeast Asia as a response to changing market demand for quality and safety in pork:
Tiongco, Marites; Catelo, Maria Angeles; Lapar, Ma. Lucila - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008
"Contract farming is conventionally thought of as a form of industrial organization that helps to overcome high monitoring, supervision, and environmental mitigation costs incurred from ensuring a reliable and uniform-quality supply (from the standpoint of integrators) and high capital and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005038046
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Joint water quantity/quality management analysis in a biofuel production area: Using an integrated economic-hydrologic model
Moraes, Marcia Maria Guedes Alcoforado de; Cai, Ximing; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009
"Water management in the Pirapama River Basin in northeastern Brazil is affected by both water quantity and water quality constraints. The region is known for significant sugarcane-based ethanol production—which is key to the Brazilian economy and expected to grow dramatically under recent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005038092
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Economywide impact of avian flu in Ghana: A dynamic CGE model analysis
Diao, Xinshen - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009
"We use a dynamic CGE model to quantitatively assess the economywide impact of HPAI in Ghana. The likely effect of an avian flu outbreak is modeled as demand or supply shocks to the poultry sector. Our analysis shows that, while chicken is a quite small sector of the Ghanaian economy, the shock...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005038112
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Structural changes in the Philippine pig industry and their environmental implications:
Catelo, Ma. Angeles O.; Narrod, Clare A.; Tiongco, Marites - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008
"Pig production in the Philippines has intensified in the urban and peri-urban areas in response to a radical structural change in the pig industry and a growing demand for pork products. Alongside this rapid growth is the emergence of societal concern about the increasing negative environmental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005038115
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IFPRI Annual Report 2005-2006: The promises and challenges of biofuels for the poor in developing countries
IFPRI - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005038162
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The economics of desertification, land degradation, and drought: Toward an integrated global assessment
Nkonya, Ephraim; Gerber, Nicolas; Baumgartner, Philipp; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009189431
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Innovation in natural resource management: The role of property rights and collective action in developing countries
Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela (contributor);  … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
International agricultural research is expanding beyond the development of annual crop technologies for individual farms to the development of longer-tern natural resource management techniques for entire landscapes. But technologies of practices with a long lag time between investment and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010752688