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Measuring progress toward empowerment: Women's empowerment in agriculture index: Baseline report

Malapit, Hazel J.; Sproule, Kathryn; Kovarik, Chiara; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the Womenâ€™s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) baseline survey results, summarizing both findings from the WEAI survey and the relationships between the WEAI and various outcomes of interest to the US Governmentâ€™s Feed the...

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Implications of bulk water transfer on local water management institutions: A case study of the Melamchi Water Supply Project in Nepal

Pant, Dhruba; Bhattarai, Madhusudan; Basnet, Govinda - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008

"To mitigate a drinking water crisis in Kathmandu valley, the Government of Nepal initiated the Melamchi Water Supply … Project in 1997, which will divert water from the Melamchi River to Kathmandu city's water supply network. In the first phase …

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Land tenure and natural resource management: A comparative study of agrarian communities in Asia and Africa

Otsuka, Keijiro (contributor); Place, Frank (contributor) - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

have experienced the reduction of farm size and the decline of natural resources. Through a comparison of Asia and Africa … State Land and Privatization in Vietnam; Common Property Forest Management in the Hill Region of Nepal; Timber Forest … Management in Nepal and Japan Toward New Paradigms of Land and Tree Resource Management. …

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2013 Global Food Policy Report

Marble, Andrew (contributor); Fritschel, Heidi (contributor) - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

This 2013 Global Food Policy Report is the third in an annual series that provides an in-depth look at major food policy developments and events. Initiated in response to resurgent interest in food and nutrition security, the series offers a yearly overview of the food policy developments that...

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Agricultural research, livelihoods, and poverty: Studies of economic and social impacts in six countries

Adato, Michelle (contributor); … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Those who study global poverty and ways to reduce it face a perennial set of questions: Do advances in knowledge, research, and technology make a real difference in the lives of poor people? What effect does research have on the poor? Who benefits? The contributors to Agricultural Research,...

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Public expenditures, growth, and poverty: Lessons from developing countries

Fan, Shenggen (contributor) - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

, and Asia by synthesizing studies conducted by the International Food Policy Research Institute over the past ten years …

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Out of the shadow of famine: evolving food markets and food policy in Bangladesh

Ahmed, Raisuddin (contributor); … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

developing countries in Asia. The authors examine the shifting structure of supply and demand in the grain markets, the history …

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Regional trading arrangements among developing countries: the ASEAN example

DeRosa, Dean A. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1995

In Regional Trading Arrangements among Developing Countries: The ASEAN Example, Research Report 103, Dean A. DeRosa examines the experiences of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) with regional investment and trade arrangements and presents a quantitative analysis of the economic...

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The achievements and experiences of poverty alleviation in rural China:

Liu, Jian - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2005

"In its pursuit of poverty alleviation and development, China has charted its own path, suitable for its own conditions. This path involves government leadership, social participation, self-reliance, an orientation toward economic development, and an integrated development approach... Although...

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Agricultural and economic development strategies and the transformation of China and India:

von Braun, Joachim; Gulati, Ashok; Fan, Shenggen - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2005

"The reform experiences of China and India—similar in some ways and different in others—shed light on the enormous potential for investments and policies in support of pro-poor agricultural and rural growth to fight poverty and malnutrition in developing countries." from Text

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