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Local sources of resilience: Working with social capital:

Bernier, Quinn; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014

People have always faced shocks and have devised a variety of institutional responses to cope with, recover from, and prevent future impacts. Central to these shocks and this coping capacity, but often underexplored, is the role of social capital. Social capital includes â€œfeatures of...

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Resilience and social capital:

Bernier, Quinn; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014

Increasingly, resilience is being incorporated into planning and social protection policy. People have been facing shocks, both natural and anthropogenic, forever, devising and innovating a variety of institutional responses to cope with, recover from, and prevent future impacts. Central to...

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Methods for studying collective action in rural development:

Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela; Di Gregorio, Monica; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2004

With renewed recognition of the importance of collective action in many aspects of agriculture, natural resource management, and rural development programs in developing countries, there is a need for research on the factors that affect its emergence, as well as its performance. Yet because of...

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Social innovation and entrepreneurship: Developing capacity to reduce poverty and hunger

Babu, Suresh; Pinstrup-Andersen, Per - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2007

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Understanding, measuring and utilizing social capital: clarifying concepts and presenting a field application from India

Krishna, Anirudh - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2003

Social capital is a resource, a propensity for mutually beneficial collective action that communities possess to different extents. Communities with high levels of social capital are able to act together collectively for achieving diverse common objectives. While the concept of social capital is...

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Gender, social capital and information exchange in rural Uganda:

Katungi, Enid; Edmeades, Svetlana; Smale, Melinda - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006

"Changing agricultural research and extension systems mean that informal mechanisms of information diffusion are often the primary source of information about improved seed and practices for farmers in sub-Saharan Africa. This paper investigates the interactions between gender, social capital...

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Gender differences in mobilization for collective action: case studies of villages in Northern Nigeria

Abdulwahid, Saratu - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006

villages show that while men engage in community activities such as road repairs, maintenance of schools and hospitals, refuse … farm work and care giving. It is argued that men mobilize around community activities outside the home because of their … influences the extent of women's participation in collective action. Because men have command of community institutions, they are …

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Groups, networks, and social capital in the Philippine communities:

Godquin, Marie; Quisumbing, Agnes R. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006

"This paper explores the determinants of group membership and social networks of rural households using a unique longitudinal data set from the rural Philippines. We investigate two types of social capital: membership in groups (production, credit, burial, religious and civic groups), or...

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Collective action initiatives to improve marketing performance: Lessons from farmer groups in Tanzania

Barham, James; Chitemi, Clarence - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008

"The primary inquiry of this study is to identify and understand the underlying factors that enable smallholder farmer groups to improve their market situation. The specific objective of this paper is to examine to what extent certain group characteristics and asset endowments facilitate...

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Shocks, groups, and networks in Bukidnon, Philippines:

Quisumbing, Agnes R.; McNiven, Scott; Godquin, Marie - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008

"This study examines the role of groups and networks in helping poor Filipinos manage their exposure to risks and cope with shocks. It brings together two strands of literature that examine how social capital affects economic variables and investigate the processes by which social capital...

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