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Inputs, productivity, and agricultural growth in Africa South of the Sahara:
Nin-Pratt, Alejandro - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2015
productivity growth in SSA continues to lag behind every other region of the world, growing at rates that are roughly half of the … support services for raising agricultural productivity. This study introduces a new dimension to the puzzle of agricultural … productivity growth in SSA: the role of the input mix and the need to increase capital and inputs per worker not only to boost …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272208
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Agricultural productivity and policies in Sub-Saharan Africa:
Yu, Bingxin; Nin-Pratt, Alejandro - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011
We analyze the evolution of Sub-Saharan Africa's (SSA's) agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) over the past 45 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009395594
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An updated look at the recovery of agricultural productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa:
Nin Pratt, Alejandro; Yu, Bingxin - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008
"We analyze the evolution of Sub-Saharan Africa's agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) over the past 40 years …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005038002
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Growth in total factor productivity in the Ethiopian agriculture sector: Growth accounting and econometric assessments of sources of growth
Bachewe, Fantu Nisrane - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012
area expanded at 4.7 percent. The remaining growth resulted from intensive use of other inputs, increased productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132633
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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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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