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West African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis
Jalloh, Abdulai; Nelson, Gerald C.; Thomas, Timothy S.; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013
The first of three books in IFPRI’s climate change in Africa series, West African Agriculture and Climate Change: A … Comprehensive Analysis examines the food security threats facing 11 of the countries that make up West Africa — Benin, Burkina … Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo — and explores how climate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010755479
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West African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis
Jalloh, Abdulai (contributor); Nelson, Gerald C. (contributor) - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
The first of three books in IFPRI’s climate change in Africa series, West African Agriculture and Climate Change: A … Comprehensive Analysis examines the food security threats facing 11 of the countries that make up West Africa – Benin, Burkina Faso …, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo – and explores how climate change …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011145651
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Development under conditions of inequality and distrust: Social cohesion in Latin America
Ferroni, Marco; Mateo, Mercedes; Payne, Mark - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008
"This paper analyzes the role of social cohesion in economic and institutional development and, broadly, the creation of welfare in Latin America. The paper defines the concept of social cohesion with reference to the notions of social capital and inequality. Using data and literature on Latin...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005038052
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How to build resilience to conflict: The role of food security
Breisinger, Clemens; Ecker, Olivier; Maystadt, … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
This Food Policy Report explains why there is a need to place even higher priority on food security-related policies and programs in conflict-prone countries, and offers insights for policymakers regarding how to do so. To understand the relationship between conflict and food security, this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114824
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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
"This paper argues, from the perspective of legal pluralism, that both private and public properties are voracious. In recent western developments, they each expand by trying to 'eating the other up'. Western property theory promotes this dualistic game of voracious property types. In exporting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005113245
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Understanding property rights
Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela; Pradhan, Rajendra; Di … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2004
The authors describe property rights as "overlapping 'bundles' of rights", which can be grouped as "use rights" and "control or decisionmaking rights". The authors then explain the concept of legal pluralism or many sources of rights and the implications for property rights. from Text.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004996930
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Land tenure in Ethiopia: Continuity and change, shifting rulers, and the quest for state control
Crewett, Wibke; Bogale, Ayalneh; Korf, Benedikt - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008
"Ethiopia experiences a fierce political debate about the appropriate land tenure policy. After the fall of the socialist derg regime in 1991, land property rights have remained vested in the state and only usufruct rights have been alienated to farmers – to the disappointment of international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005101415
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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
In this paper, we develop a simple game-theoretic model to explore the relationship between management of common pool resources used as an input in livestock production (common pastures) and the adoption of inputs associated with intensified per animal production (veterinary services, purchased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005113252
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Institutional options for managing rangelands
Ngaido, Tidiane; McCarthy, Nancy - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2004
"This brief considers the benefits and costs of alternative tenure and institutional arrangements and the impact of existing legal and policy frameworks on the sustainability and equity of pastoral production systems under three categories of landownership: (1) state ownership; (2) individual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004996900
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Local sources of resilience: Working with social capital:
Bernier, Quinn; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
People have always faced shocks and have devised a variety of institutional responses to cope with, recover from, and prevent future impacts. Central to these shocks and this coping capacity, but often underexplored, is the role of social capital. Social capital includes “features of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277415