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Land constraints and agricultural intensification in Ethiopia: A village-level analysis of high-potential areas:
Headey, Derek D.; Dereje, Mekdim; Ricker-Gilbert, Jacob; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013
questions. First, how do rural Ethiopians adapt to land constraints? And second, do land constraints significantly influence … households facing particularly severe land constraints. We then ask whether smaller and declining farm sizes are inducing … agricultural intensification, and if so, how. We find strong evidence in favor of the Boserupian hypothesis that land …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010850562
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Land constraints and agricultural intensification in Ethiopia: A village-level analysis of high-potential areas:
Headey, Derek D.; Dereje, Mekdim; Ricker-Gilbert, Jacob; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013
forces, with the goal of informing two important policy questions. First, how do rural Ethiopians adapt to land constraints …? And second, do land constraints significantly influence welfare outcomes in rural Ethiopia? …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010700931
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Income growth and gender bias in childhood mortality in developing countries:
Ueyama, Mika - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2007
"With poverty studies having shifted their focus from household poverty to individual poverty, a number of studies have started to examine intrahousehold resource allocation, especially gender bias within the household as potential causes of poverty. The literature has highlighted the existence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005038146
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Reducing poverty and hunger in Asia:
Islam, Nurul ed. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008
Investment Priorities for Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction in Asia Shenggen Fan, Joanna Brzeska, and Ghada Shields
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004996513
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Local impacts of a global crisis: Food price transmission and poverty impacts in Ghana
Cudjoe, Godsway; Breisinger, Clemens; Diao, Xinshen - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008
Recent increases in cereals prices raise questions about agricultural priorities in Ghana. This report presents an application of the Policy Analysis Matrix (PAM) to the problem of identifying opportunities to enhance agriculture’s contribution to economic growth and poverty alleviation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132799
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Identifying opportunities in Ghana’s agriculture: Results from a policy analysis matrix
Winter-Nelson, Alex; Aggrey-Fynn, Emmanuel - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008
"Recent increases in cereals prices raise questions about agricultural priorities in Ghana. This report presents an application of the Policy Analysis Matrix (PAM) to the problem of identifying opportunities to enhance agriculture’s contribution to economic growth and poverty alleviation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132800
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Regional disparities in Ghana: Policy options and public investment implications
Al-Hassan, Ramatu M.; Diao, Xinshen - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2007
""This paper sets out to identify avenues for pro-poor growth in Ghana, focussing on agricultural opportunities, particularly in northern Ghana. Using an economywide, multimarket model and based on time series production data between 1991 and 2000 and Ghana Living Standards Survey data of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010762133
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Atlas of African agriculture research and development: Revealing agriculture's place in Africa
Sebastian, Kate (contributor) - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
The Atlas of African Agriculture Research & Development is a multifaceted resource that high­lights the ubiquitous nature of smallholder agriculture in Africa; the many factors shaping the location, nature, and performance of agricultural enterprises; and the strong interde­pendencies among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010850582
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Assessing the economic benefits of sustainable land management practices in Bhutan:
Nkonya, Ephraim M.; Srinivasan, Raghavan; Anderson, Weston - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
This study was conducted with the objective of determining the returns to sustainable land management (SLM) at the … national level in Bhutan. The study first uses satellite data on land change (Landsat) to examine land use change in 1990â … Tool (SWAT) model to analyze the impact of land use change and land management on sediment loading. The results from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132659
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Examining the sense and science behind Ghana’s current blanket fertilizer recommendation:
Chapoto, Antony; Tetteh, Francis - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
This paper was written to help bolster the case and present visual evidence demonstrating why it is important to seriously consider spatial soil fertility variability in Ghana and to promote area-specific fertilizer recommendations. Using geostatistical analysis of soil samples collected from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132670