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Market interdependence and volatility transmission among major crops:
Gardebroek, Cornelis; Hernandez, Manuel A.; Robles, Miguel - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
agricultural commodities. We follow a Multivariate Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity (MGARCH) approach to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010850569
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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
energy, agricultural, and food commodities using monthly data between 1970 and 2013. The authors study the extent and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886774
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The impact of food prices shocks in Uganda: First-order versus long-run effects:
Van Campenhout, Bjorn; Pauw, Karl; Minot, Nicholas - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013
with improved market prices for output sold. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010700930
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Economywide impact of maize export bans on agricultural growth and household welfare in Tanzania: A Dynamic Computable General Equilibrium Model Analysis:
Diao, Xinshen; Kennedy, Adam; Mabiso, Athur; Pradesha, Angga - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013
-export scenario. The benefits of lower prices are captured primarily by urban households, but maize producer prices decrease by 7 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010700934
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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
interventions, commodities, and countries. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010762171
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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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East African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis
Waithaka, Michael (contributor);  … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
The second of three books in IFPRI's climate change in Africa series, East African Agriculture and Climate Change: A Comprehensive Analysis examines the food security threats facing 10 of the countries that make up east and central Africa - Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Kenya,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010850583
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Improved performance of agriculture in Africa South of the Sahara: Taking off or bouncing back?
Nin-Pratt, Alejandro; Johnson, Michael E.; Yu, Bingxin - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012
€“2010) has raised questions about the drivers behind the growth. Skeptics argue that rising commodity prices, as world … poor performance of the 1980s and 1990s together with favorable domestic prices. A key challenge for African countries in … the years to come is to transform the current windfall gains from favorable high commodity prices and the one-time effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132678
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Southern African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis
Hachigonta, Sepo (contributor);  … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Southern African Agriculture and Climate Change: A Comprehensive Analysis examines the food security threats facing eight of the countries that make up southern Africa — Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe — and explores how climate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132811
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A partial equilibrium model of the Malawi maize commodity market:
Mapila, Mariam A. T. J.; Kirsten, Johann F.; Meyer, … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013
This paper presents a model of the Malawi maize commodity market that is developed for use as a policy analysis tool. The model captures national and local maize market dynamics and the linkages existing within the maize market in the country. This research has been undertaken in order to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010634908