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The seed and agricultural biotechnology industries in India: An analysis of industry structure, competition, and policy options
Spielman, David J.; Kolady, Deepthi; Cavalieri, Anthony; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011
Since the late 1980s, technological advances and policy reforms have opened up new opportunities for growth in India's seed and agricultural biotechnology industries. The impacts of such changes have been significant in India's cotton sector, but less so for the country's main cereal crops,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009291937
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Moving up and moving down: a new way of examining country growth dynamics
Rockmore, Marc; Zhang, Xiaobo - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006
"Do the countries which grow share the same features as those which decline? How can some countries achieve such long-term sustainable growth while others fail so badly? This paper builds on the emerging literature on growth asymmetries by examining movement across income categories in the World...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005037959
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Institutions, geography, trade, and income per capita: A spatial-simultaneous equation approach
Ngeleza, Guyslain - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011
This paper tests a series of prominent hypotheses regarding how institutions, geography, and trade interact to … which country characteristics might affect income through trade and institutions, and then to test the robustness of those … effects. Evidence indicated that both institutions and trade influence growth. Geographical factors such as whether a country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009189425
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Strengthening capacity for resilient food systems: Approaches and research gaps:
Babu, Suresh Chandra; Blom, Sylvia - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
In the wake of the food and financial crises of 2007–2008 and 2011, building resilient food systems to achieve food security for all has become one of the top goals of the development agenda.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277413
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Capacity development for resilient food systems: Issues, approaches, and knowledge gaps:
Babu, Suresh Chandra; Blom, Sylvia - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
categorized into three subsystems: a policy system; markets, trade, and institutions; and a production system. Within each of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277435
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The six "ins" of climate-smart agriculture: Inclusive institutions for information, innovation, investment, and insurance:
Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela; Bernier, Quinn; Haglund, Eric - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013
This paper reviews the central role of institutions for climate-smart agriculture (CSA), focusing on the role of … institutions in promoting inclusivity, providing information, enabling local level innovation, encouraging investment, and offering … role of state, collective action, and market institutions at multiple levels, with particular attention to the importance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010762168
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Rural institutions and producer organizations in imperfect markets: experiences from producer marketing groups in semi-arid eastern Kenya
Shiferaw, Bekele; Obare, Gideon; Muricho, Geoffrey - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006
complementary institutions and coordination mechanisms to exploit scale economies. The effectiveness of PMGs was determined by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005113240
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The voracious appetites of public versus private property: a view of intellectual property and biodiversity from legal pluralism
Wiber, Melanie G. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2005
only from legal institutions that mediate property rights, but also from social institutions that determine and distribute … rights, and how these legal and social institutions interface. The three-tiered model presented in this paper ideological …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005113245
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Collective action in plant genetic resources management: gendered rules of reputation, trust and reciprocity in Kerala, India
Padmanabhan, Martina Aruna - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006
"Collective action aims at the joint management of common pool resources. Agrobiodiversity at the community level is conceptualized as a collective resource requiring the management of varieties, species and their interrelations within a farming-system. In the rice dominated agriculture in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005113250
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005113253