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Robinson, Elizabeth J. Z.; Kolavalli, Shashi L. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010

processing entering the fresh market at the same time, not the improved varieties that could be used by the processors. For most …Processing of highly perishable non-storable crops, such as tomato, is typically promoted for two reasons: as a way of … chain through a value-added process. For Ghana, improving domestic tomato processing would also reduce the country …

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The quiet revolution in staple food value chains: Enter the dragon, the elephant, and the tiger

Reardon, Thomas (contributor); Chen, Kevin Z. (contributor); … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Feeding nine billion people by 2050 is a top priority on the global agenda for sustainable and inclusive development. This task is especially formidable in Asia, where more than two-thirds of the worldâ€™s poor and malnourished people live. Food prices in Asia are projected to remain high...

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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

through enhancing agency capacity. …

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What do people bring into the game: experiments in the field about cooperation in the commons

Cárdenas, Juan-Camilo; Ostrom, Elinor - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2004

The study of collective action requires an understanding of the individual incentives and of the institutional constraints that guide people in making choices about cooperating or defecting on the group facing the dilemma. The use of local ecosystems by groups of individuals is just one example...

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The importance of social capital in Colombian rural agro-enterprises:

Johnson, Nancy; Suarez, Ruth; Lundy, Mark - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2002

capacity for collective action. To estimate social capital's contribution to firm structure and performance, quantitative …, institutional and technological innovations that ameliorate the effects of the market failures that lead to use of social …

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Legal pluralism and dynamic property rights:

Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela; Pradhan, Rajendra - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2002

"Conventional conceptions of property rights focus on static definitions of property rights, usually as defined in statutory law. However, in practice there is co-existence and interaction between multiple legal orders such as state, customary, religious, project and local laws, all of which...

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Methods of consensus building for community based fisheries management in Bangladesh and the Mekong Delta:

Sultana, Parvi; Thompson, Pau - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2003

A method of consensus building for management of wetlands and fisheries using a systematic approach to participatory planning and initially developed in Bangladesh is now being applied in both Bangladesh and the Mekong delta. The method recognizes diversity in livelihoods and works through a...

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Property rights, collective action and technologies for natural resource management: a conceptual framework

Knox, Anna; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela; Hazell, P. B. R. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1998

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In pursuit of comparable concepts and data about collective action:

Poteete, Amy; Ostrom, Elinor - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2003

institutional development, the mediating role institutions play relative to demographic and market pressures in patterns of resource …

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The relationship between collective action and intensification of livestock production: the case of Northeastern Burkina Faso

McCarthy, Nancy - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2004

Burkina Faso in 2000 and 2002. Results indicate that better managed pastures, proxied by community-level cooperative capacity … livestock production, is not associated with cooperative capacity. …

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