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Institutions and economic policies for pro-poor agricultural growth
Dorward, Andrew; Fan, Shenggen; Kydd, Jonathan; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2004
-poor agricultural growth and of policies that can promote such growth in poor rural economies in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa … difficulties in today's poor rural areas in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Some of these difficulties are endogenous to these … Africa, new thinking is urgently needed to find alternative ways of 'kick starting' markets ways which reduce rent seeking …
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Smallholder demand for maize hybrids and selective seed subsidies in Zambia
Smale, Melinda; Birol, Ekin - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013
This analysis explores smallholder demand for hybrid maize seed by subsidy receipt. We test the hypothesis that the …
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Agricultural intensification in Africa: A regional analysis:
Nin-Pratt, Alejandro - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2015
incorporated to crop production and increased cropping intensity through the reduction of fallow periods and increased double …
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The Asian Green Revolution:
Hazell, Peter B.R. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008459984
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Green Revolution
IFPRI - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2002
The "Green Revolution" of the 1960s and 1970s produced an unprecedented growth in agriculture in developing countries. The authors of this Brief examine the Green Revolution's impacts on agricultural production and its social impacts. They then turn to the problems it may have engendered as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997028
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From parastatals to private trade: Lessons from Asian agriculture
Rashid, Shahidur; Gulati, Ashok; Cummings, Ralph Jr. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008
"Governments in Asia used grain price stabilization as a major policy instrument when they began to promote the Green Revolution in the 1960s. In the process, they created parastatal agencies, which were quasi-governmental in nature, to undertake public marketing activities in basic staples such...
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Social learning, neighborhood effects, and investment in human capital
Yamauchi, Futoshi - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2005
"This paper shows that neighborhood factors matter in schooling investments: in the face of the availability of a new technology that altered schooling returns, agents learned of the benefits of new returns to schooling from neighbors and adjusted schooling investments over time. Using household...
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Social learning, neighborhood effects, and investment in human capital: Evidence from Green-Revolution India
Yamauchi, Futoshi - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2005
"This paper empirically identifies social learning and neighborhood effects in schooling investments in a new technology regime. The estimates of learning-investment rule from farm household panel data at the onset of the Green Revolution in India, show that (1) agents learn about schooling...
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Comparing the evolution of spatial inequality in China and India: a fifty-year perspective
Gajwani, Kiran; Kanbur, Ravi; Zhang, Xiaobo - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006
"In the second half of the last century, both India and China have undergone major transitions and have moved to more liberalized economies. This paper relates the observed patterns in regional inequality to major events during this period. Because of China's institutional barriers to migration,...
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Accelerating Africa's food production in response to rising food prices: Impacts and requisite actions
Diao, Xinshen; Fan, Shenggen; Headey, Derek; Johnson, … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008
"In Africa the global food crisis threatens the livelihoods of millions of people who because of high rates of poverty …, hunger, malnutrition, and food dependency are already exceptionally vulnerable. In better circumstances, Africa … the impacts of these two strategic options on Africa's food markets and its broader economic development. Doubling staples …
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