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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

directly from these local offices or through local cooperatives. The evaluation shows that competition between entrepreneurial …

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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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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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Cooperative dairy development in Karnataka, India: an assessment

Alderman, Harold - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1987

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Estimating the impact of agricultural technology on poverty reduction in rural Nigeria:

Omilola, Babatunde - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009

"It has often been argued that new agricultural technologies lead to poverty reduction. This paper argues that any changes in poverty situation attributed to those who adopt new agricultural technology (treatment group) without a counterfactual comparison of carefully selected nonadopters...

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The impact of economic policy research

Ryan, James G.; Garrett, James L. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2003

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The challenge of hunger: The 2008 Global Hunger Index

von Grebmer, Klaus; Fritschel, Heidi; Nestorova, Bella; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008

"With high food prices threatening the food security of millions of vulnerable households around the world, hunger and malnutrition are back in the headlines. The world is making only slow progress in reducing food insecurity, according to the Global Hunger Index (GHI). Some regions—in...

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The challenge of hunger 2007: Global Hunger Index: Facts, determinants, and trends

Wiesmann, Doris; Sost, Ann Kathrin; Schöninger, Iris; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

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Moving forward with complimentary feeding

Ruel, Marie T.; Brown, Kenneth H.; Caulfield, Laura E. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2003

, the design and evaluation of programs to improve complementary feeding practices cannot move forward. The present paper is …"For a number of reasons, progress in improving child feeding practices in the developing world has been remarkably … slow. First, complementary feeding practices encompass a number of interrelated behaviors that need to be addressed …

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Designing and evaluating social safety nets

Coady, David P. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2004

"This paper reviews issues highlighted in the literature on the performance of commonly found social safety net programs in developing countries. It makes particular reference to food subsidies (universal and administratively targeted), public works schemes, and targeted human capital subsidies....

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