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Interventions for achieving sustainability in tropical forest and agricultural landscapes:
Newton, Peter; Agrawal, Arun; Wollenberg, Lini - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013
The rapid expansion of commodity agriculture in tropical forest landscapes is a key driver of deforestation. To meet the growing demand from a more prosperous and expanding global population, it is imperative to develop sustainable commodity supply chains that support higher agricultural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010762171
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Rural banking in Africa
van Empel, Gerard - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010
Many people in the vast rural areas of Africa lack access to financial services, and most commercial banks are not interested in moving into these areas due to their low income levels, lack of scale economies, and poor infrastructure. Also, few banks actually understand the most common economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008523837
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Scaling up in agriculture, rural development, and nutrition
Linn, Johannes F. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012
Taking successful development interventions to scale is critical if the world is to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and make essential gains in the fight for improved agricultural productivity, rural incomes, and nutrition. How to support scaling up in these three areas, however, is a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010735452
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Policy options for improving regional fertilizer markets in West Africa:
Bumb, Balu L.; Johnson, Michael E.; Fuentes, Porfirio A. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011
A primary motivation for this study is to identify a key set of policy options for improving fertilizer markets in West Africa (among Economic Community of West African States member countries) in ways that ultimately will help improve the efficiency of regional markets and lower the transaction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009189434
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Food safety and developing markets: Research findings and research gaps:
Unnevehr, Laurian J.; Ronchi, Loraine - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
To better inform donor support for public food safety interventions, this paper reviews the literature on the impact of more stringent food safety standards on developing-country markets. This literature has primarily focused on the market access and economic implications of higher standards in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114775
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The role of public–private partnerships in promoting smallholder access to livestock markets in developing countries
Rich, Karl M.; Narrod, Clare A. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010
Rising demands for quality and safety measures in high-value agriculture and livestock markets have necessitated the creation of increasingly complex supply chains to manage the flow of goods and information among channel actors. Public–private partnerships (PPPs) can play a key role in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008486411
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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
capital. Social capital includes “features of social organization, such as networks, norms, and social trust, that … are localâ€level organizations and less formal social networks. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277415
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Resilience and social capital:
Bernier, Quinn; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
role of social capital. This paper, using the case studies of iddirs (funeral societies) in Ethiopia and migrant networks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277436
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Regional policy networks: IFPRI's experience with decentralization
Paarlberg, Robert - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2005
"IFPRI, traditionally a centralized development organization, is now embracing networks as one institutional strategy … to achieve “regional decentralization.” Since 1999 IFPRI has developed and operated two formal regional networks, in East … Africa and South Asia, and additional regional networks have been envisioned for Southern Africa and Central America. IFPRI …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004996498
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Nonmarket networks among migrants
Yamauchi, Futoshi; Tanabe, Sakiko - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2003
"This paper examines nonmarket interactions among migrants from same origins in the urban labor market of Bangkok, Thailand. We test whether the labor-market performance of previous migrants has externalities to that of new migrants who moved from the same province of origin. Our empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997216