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Farmers' health status, agricultural efficiency, and poverty in rural Ethiopia: A stochastic production frontier approach
Ulimwengu, John M. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009
"The A stochastic frontier production function is used to estimate agricultural efficiency index. Then, controlling for household characteristics and other exogenous variables, the efficiency index is regressed on the probability of being sick. Estimation is performed using the treatment effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005038012
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The linkages between agriculture and malaria: Issues for policy, research, and capacity strengthening
Asenso-Okyere, Kwadwo; Asante, Felix A.; Tarekegn, Jifar; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009
"Malaria afflicts many people in the developing world, and due to its direct and indirect costs it has widespread impacts on growth and development. The global impact of malaria on human health, productivity, and general well-being is profound. Human activity, including agriculture, has been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005038016
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Institutional innovations towards gender equity in agrobiodiversity management: collective action in Kerala, South India
Padmanabhan, Martina Aruna - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2005
"The maintenance of crop diversity on farmers' fields in hot spots of plant genetic diversity is considered a ”global life insurance policy“ in the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD 2001:1). This paper provides evidence of the importance of the contribution of poor women farmers to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005101402
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Migration and technical efficiency in cereal production: Evidence from Burkina Faso
Wouterse, Fleur S. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008
"This paper uses data envelopment analysis and new data from Burkina Faso to test the impact of intercontinental and continental migration on technical efficiency in the production of two cereals—millet and sorghum—by rural households. Econometric evidence supports our theoretical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005038144
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Scaling up in agriculture, rural development, and nutrition
Linn, Johannes F. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012
of a broader process of innovation and learning. A new idea, model, or approach is typically embodied in a pilot project … & Melinda Gates Foundation: Catalyzing Agricultural Innovation by Prabhu Pingali •IFAD: Adopting a New Systematic Approach to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010735452
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Explicitly integrating institutions into bioeconomic modeling:
Swallow, Kimberly A.; Swallow, Brent M. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2015
Bioeconomic models can provide powerful insights into the interactions between people and the natural ecosystems on which they depend. For example, bioeconomic models of fisheries have long been used to provide early warnings about the sustainability of harvest levels or the impacts of new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011200206
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Institutional change, rural services, and agricultural performance in Kyrgyzstan:
Akramov, Kamiljon T.; Omuraliev, Nurbek - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009
The institutional change in rural Kyrgyzstan during the transition period included farm reorganization, land reform, building markets, and community institutions. The land reform established private property rights to land, including the rights to transfer, exchange, sell, lease, and use the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008459987
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How does food price increase affect Ugandan households?: An augmented multimarket approach
Ulimwengu, John M.; Ramadan, Racha - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009
"Almost unaffected by the 2008 wave of soaring world food prices, Ugandan local market prices exhibit signs of high price volatility in the first quarter of 2009. At the household level, while net producers may reap some benefits from this increase in food prices, net consumers are more likely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004967175
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Decentralization, pro-poor land policies, and democratic governance:
Meinzen-Dick, Ruth; Gregorio, Monica Di; Dohrn, Stephan - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008
"Decentralized approaches to development are gaining increasing prominence. Land tenure reform policy has been affected by many different types of decentralization. However, the literature on land tenure reform rarely explicitly addressed the implications of decentralization, and vice versa....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005105960
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Brazil's experience with bioenergy: bioenergy and agriculture promises and challenges
Moreira, Jose Roberto - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006
"Brazil is the world's largest producer of ethanol, a biofuel used mainly in automobiles as an additive or alternative … had both successes and failures. Although Brazil's program was criticized as being uneconomic during periods of low oil … economy... For countries that wish to improve their energy security while promoting rural development, Brazil's experience …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004996941