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Institutional change, rural services, and agricultural performance in Kyrgyzstan:
Akramov, Kamiljon T.; Omuraliev, Nurbek - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009
The institutional change in rural Kyrgyzstan during the transition period included farm reorganization, land reform, building markets, and community institutions. The land reform established private property rights to land, including the rights to transfer, exchange, sell, lease, and use the...
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How does food price increase affect Ugandan households?: An augmented multimarket approach
Ulimwengu, John M.; Ramadan, Racha - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009
"Almost unaffected by the 2008 wave of soaring world food prices, Ugandan local market prices exhibit signs of high price volatility in the first quarter of 2009. At the household level, while net producers may reap some benefits from this increase in food prices, net consumers are more likely...
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Institutional innovations towards gender equity in agrobiodiversity management: collective action in Kerala, South India
Padmanabhan, Martina Aruna - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2005
's interests. The paper considers empirical evidence from Kerala, a hot spot of biodiversity in India, investigates properties of …; agrobiodiversity management; collective action; India; institutional change" Author's Abstract …
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Farmers' health status, agricultural efficiency, and poverty in rural Ethiopia: A stochastic production frontier approach
Ulimwengu, John M. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009
"The A stochastic frontier production function is used to estimate agricultural efficiency index. Then, controlling for household characteristics and other exogenous variables, the efficiency index is regressed on the probability of being sick. Estimation is performed using the treatment effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005038012
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The linkages between agriculture and malaria: Issues for policy, research, and capacity strengthening
Asenso-Okyere, Kwadwo; Asante, Felix A.; Tarekegn, Jifar; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009
"Malaria afflicts many people in the developing world, and due to its direct and indirect costs it has widespread impacts on growth and development. The global impact of malaria on human health, productivity, and general well-being is profound. Human activity, including agriculture, has been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005038016
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Migration and technical efficiency in cereal production: Evidence from Burkina Faso
Wouterse, Fleur S. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008
"This paper uses data envelopment analysis and new data from Burkina Faso to test the impact of intercontinental and continental migration on technical efficiency in the production of two cereals—millet and sorghum—by rural households. Econometric evidence supports our theoretical...
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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...
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Explicitly integrating institutions into bioeconomic modeling:
Swallow, Kimberly A.; Swallow, Brent M. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2015
Bioeconomic models can provide powerful insights into the interactions between people and the natural ecosystems on which they depend. For example, bioeconomic models of fisheries have long been used to provide early warnings about the sustainability of harvest levels or the impacts of new...
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Comparing the evolution of spatial inequality in China and India: a fifty-year perspective
Gajwani, Kiran; Kanbur, Ravi; Zhang, Xiaobo - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006
"In the second half of the last century, both India and China have undergone major transitions and have moved to more … of China's institutional barriers to migration, regional inequality is much higher than in India. Also, China … – since the reform period. From the Green Revolution age to the period of economic liberalization in India, the evolution of …
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Economic implications of foreign exchange rationing in Ethiopia:
Dorosh, Paul A.; Robinson, Sherman; Ahmed, Hashim - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009
Ethiopia enjoyed remarkable economic growth from 2004/05 to 2008/09, in large part due to increases in foreign transfers and capital inflows combined with expanded domestic credit to fund major increases in private and public investments in infrastructure and housing. However, this rapid growth...
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