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Understanding menâ€™s and womenâ€™s access to and control of assets and the implications for agricultural development projects: A case study in rice-farming households in eastern U...

Paris, Thelma; Pede, Valerien; Luis, Joyce; Sharma, Raman; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2015

This research was undertaken to understand gender issues on the distribution of, access to, and control over major assets of rice-farming households as well as the effects of technologies promoted by an Agricultural Research for Development (AR4D) project in selected villages in eastern Uttar...

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Co-movement of major commodity price returns: A time-series assessment:

de Nicola, Francesca; De Pace, Pierangelo; Hernandez, … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the degree of co-movement among the nominal price returns of 11 major energy, agricultural, and food commodities using monthly data between 1970 and 2013. The authors study the extent and the time evolution of unconditional and conditional...

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Integrated economic modeling of global and regional micronutrient security:

Msangi, Siwa; Sulser, Timothy B.; Bouis, Andrew; Hawes, … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010

In this paper, we examine the implications of alternative country-specific scenarios for biofortification on the reduction of micronutrient deficiency prevalence in under-fives. The scenarios are implemented within a long-term projections model of agriculture production and consumption, given...

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Strengthening food policy through gender and intrahousehold analysis: impact assessment of IFPRI multicountry research

Jackson, Cecile - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2005

"This assessment focuses on IFPRI's research program, Strengthening Food Policy through Intrahousehold Analysis,” within the Food Consumption and Nutrition Division (FCND). The program was initiated in 1992, formally began in 1994, and was completed in 2003. Research undertaken in the program...

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Towards understanding economic growth in Africa: A reinterpretation of the Lewis Model:

Diao, Xinshen; McMillan, Margaret S. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014

Africaâ€™s recent economic growth is at a historical high, the patterns associated with this growth appear to be quite different from the Asian experiences where rapid growth was fueled by labor intensive, export-oriented manufacturing. Because this pattern differs with our typical view of...

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Food security in a world of natural resource scarcity: The role of agricultural technologies

Rosegrant, Mark W.; Koo, Jawoo; Cenacchi, Nicola; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

effectiveness of agricultural technologies are highly debated, and the debates are often polarized. Technology options are many, but … and the private sector, Food Security in a World of Natural Resource Scarcity provides guidance on various technology …

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Market Integration in Mozambique:: A Non-Parametric Extension to the Threshold Model

Van Campenhout, Bjorn - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012

One of the main drawbacks of current methods to measure market integration is the assumption of constant transaction costs. In this paper, we propose a non-parametric extension to the commonly used threshold models, allowing us to estimate transaction costs in a more flexible way. We illustrate...

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Improving diagnostics for aflatoxin detection:

Harvey, Jagger; Gnonlonfin, Benoit; Fletcher, Mary; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013

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Inputs, productivity, and agricultural growth in Africa South of the Sahara:

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

and development (R&D), highlighting the need to facilitate farmers access to technology, markets, and the necessary … output per worker but also to accelerate technology adoption and total factor productivity (TFP) growth. According to the … appropriate technology hypothesis, advanced countries invent technologies that are compatible with their own factor mix, but these …

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What will it take for biofortification to have impact on the ground? Theories of change for three crop-country combinations:

Johnson, Nancy L.; Guedenet, Hannah; Saltzman, Amy - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2015

These theories of change were developed to help the HarvestPlus program deliver on its planned outcomes and impacts. HarvestPlus expects to contribute to the reduction in micronutrient deficiency among women and children in rural areas of developing countries through the breeding and...

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