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East African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis
Waithaka, Michael (contributor);  … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
The second of three books in IFPRI's climate change in Africa series, East African Agriculture and Climate Change: A Comprehensive Analysis examines the food security threats facing 10 of the countries that make up east and central Africa - Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Kenya,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010850583
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Conflict, food insecurity, and globalization:
Messer, Ellen; Cohen, Marc J. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006
crops like coffee fail to deliver expected livelihoods. Fourth, and in sum, more systematic use of livelihood-security and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997122
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Conflict, food insecurity, and globalization:
Messer, Ellen; Cohen, Marc J. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006
. Next, we analyze countrylevel, historical contexts where export crops, such as coffee and cotton, have been implicated in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997264
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Structure and performance of Ethiopia’s coffee export sector:
Minten, Bart; Tamru, Seneshaw; Kuma, Tadesse; Nyarko, Yaw - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
We study the structure and performance of the coffee export sector in Ethiopia, Africa’s most important coffee … sector, including an elimination of vertical integration for most exporters. Ethiopia’s coffee export earn-ings improved …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132614
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Summary of Structure and performance of Ethiopia’s coffee export sector:
Minten, Bart; Tamru, Seneshaw; Kuma, Tadesse; Nyarko, Yaw - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
We study the structure and performance of the coffee export sector in Ethiopia, Africa’s most important coffee … sector, including an elimi-nation of vertical integration for most exporters. Ethiopia’s coffee export earnings increased … quality of coffee improved only slightly over this time, but the quantity exported increased by 50 percent, explained by both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132776
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Resilience Programming among Nongovernmental Organizations: Lessons for Policymakers
Frankenberger, Timothy R.; Constas, Mark A.; Nelson, Suzanne - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
This food policy report reviews resilience processes, activities, and outcomes by examining a number of case studies of initiatives by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to enhance resilience capacity, and draws implications for policymakers and other stakeholders looking to strengthen resilience.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010933124
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Climate risk management through sustainable land management in Sub-Saharan Africa:
Nkonya, Ephraim; Place, Frank; Pender, John; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011
Empirical evidence has shown that farmers can adapt to climate change by using sustainable land and water management (SLWM) practices that provide local mitigation benefits, reducing or offsetting the negative effects of climate change at the level of the plot, farm, or even landscape. However,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009366799
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Sustainability, growth, and poverty alleviation: A policy and agroecological perspective
Vosti, Stephen A. (contributor);  … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Developing countries are under pressure to produce more food for their growing populations, conserve natural resources, and reduce poverty. In the short term, however, these goals may compete with one another. This book focuses on the interactions between agricultural growth and environment and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010752680
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Innovation in natural resource management: The role of property rights and collective action in developing countries
Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela (contributor);  … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
International agricultural research is expanding beyond the development of annual crop technologies for individual farms to the development of longer-tern natural resource management techniques for entire landscapes. But technologies of practices with a long lag time between investment and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010752688
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Understanding the links between agriculture and health:
Hawkes, Corinna; Ruel, Marie T. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006
CONTENTS: 1.Overview / Corinna Hawkes and Marie T. Ruel; 2. Agriculture, Food, and Health: Perspectives on a Long Relationship / Tim Lang; 3. Agricultural Technology and Health / Michael Lipton, Saurabh Sinha, and Rachel Blackman; 4. Agriculture and Nutrition Linkages: Old Lessons and New...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004996502