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Gender, assets, and agricultural development: Lessons from eight projects:
Johnson, Nancy L.; Kovarik, Chiara; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2015
development programs on how to incorporate gender and assets in the design, implementation, and evaluation of interventions. This … evaluation of agricultural development projects. All projects were associated with increases in asset levels and other benefits …
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Ãndice Global del Hambre 2011: el Desafío del Hambre: Domar los picos y la Volatilidad Excesiva de los Precios de los Alimentos
von Grebmer, Klaus; Torero, Maximo; Olofinbiyi, Tolulope; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
IEl Ãndice Global del Hambre (GHI) de este año muestra que el hambre global ha disminuido desde 1990 –pero no en forma dramática–y permanece en un nivel que se puede considerar como “serioâ€. Los puntajes del GHI varían ampliamente entre los diferentes países y regiones. Los...
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Indice Globale della Fame 2011: La Sfida della fame: Controllare le impennate e l’eccessiva volatilità dei prezzi alimentari
von Grebmer, Klaus; Torero, Maximo; Olofinbiyi, Tolulope; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Il Global Hunger Index (GHI) di quest’anno mostra che la fame nel mondo è diminuita dal 1990, ma non in modo notevole, e rimane a un livello classifi cato come “graveâ€. I livelli di GHI variano molto da regione a regione e da paese a paese. I punteggi più alti di GHI si registrano...
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The contribution of IFPRI research and the impact of the Food for Education Program in Bangladesh on schooling outcomes and earnings
Ryan, James G.; Meng, Xin - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2004
experimental evaluation methodology is used on household sample survey data to analyze the effects of FFE on schooling outcomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010798305
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Can dairy value-chain projects change gender norms in rural Bangladesh? Impacts on assets, gender norms, and time use:
Quisumbing, Agnes R.; Roy, Shalini; Njuki, Jemimah; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013
Value-chain projects are increasingly being used to link smallholders to markets. However, in contexts where women tend to own and control fewer assets than men, and are more likely to be involved in informal rather than formal market activities, there is potential for value-chain projects to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010736395
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Direct seed marketing program in Ethiopia in 2013: An operational evaluation to guide seed-sector reform:
Benson, Todd; Spielman, David J.; Kasa, Leulsegged - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
In 2013 the Bureaus of Agriculture in the regional states of Amhara, Oromia, and Southern Nations, Nationalities, and … directly from these local offices or through local cooperatives. The evaluation shows that competition between entrepreneurial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010850567
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Is there an App for that? The impact of community knowledge workers in Uganda:
Van Campenhout, Bjorn - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013
Rapidly increasing mobile phone coverage, cheaper technology, and an open platform that allows for the development of applications that extend the use of mobile devices provide new ways to reach farmers in isolated places. We investigate the impact of an intervention that uses information and...
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Closing the gender asset gap: Learning from value chain development in Africa and Asia:
Quisumbing, Agnes R.; Rubin, Deborah; Manfre, Cristina; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
This paper explores initial findings from four case studies in the Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project on changes …
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How do intrahousehold dynamics change when assets are transferred to women? Evidence from BRAC’s Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction—Targeting the Ultra Poor program...
Das, Narayan; Yasmin, Rabeya; Ara, Jinnat; Kamruzzaman, Md. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013
We study BRAC’s Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction—Targeting the Ultra Poor (CFPR-TUP) program in Bangladesh, which targets asset transfer (primarily livestock) and training to rural women in poor households. Previous research has shown large, significant positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132684
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Institutional capacity for designing and implementing agricultural and rural development policies and strategies in Nigeria:
Adebayo, Kolawole; Babu, Suresh Chandra; Rhoe, Valerie - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009
Agriculture and Water Resources (FMAWR), Federal Ministry of Women affairs and Social Development (FMWASD), and the Federal … were the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN), The World Bank, state and local governments, and the Food and Agriculture …, planning, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation. Finally, there was a need for the institutionalization of effective …
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