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2012 Global Food Policy Report
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); … - 2013
This 2012 Global Food Policy Report is the second in an annual series that provides an in-depth look at major food policy developments and events. Initiated in response to resurgent interest in food security, the series offers a yearly overview of the food policy developments that have...
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A long-term census and survey program for Ghana:
Muñoz, Juan - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011
the long-term census and survey system through interviews held with diverse stakeholders. I thus identified the clients … the Ghanaian census and household survey system as a production process. Finally, I evaluated GSS’ resources … Census and Household Survey Systems’ main clients are the Ghanaian decisionmakers in the line ministries and international …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132787
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Bt Cotton adoption and wellbeing of farmers in Pakistan:
Nazli, Hina; Orden, David; Sarker, Rakhal; Meilke, Karl - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012
Among the four largest cotton-producing countries, only Pakistan had not commercially adopted Bt cotton by 2010. However, the cultivation of first-generation (Cry1Ac) Bt cotton, unapproved and unregulated, increased rapidly after 2005. Using the propensity score matching method, this paper...
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2011 Global food policy report:
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); … - 2012
IFPRI's 2011 Global Food Policy Report—the first in a new annual series—provides an in-depth, contextualized look at the past year's major food policy developments and events. It both raises and answers these key questions: What happened in food policy in 2011 and why? What challenges and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010542212
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International agricultural research for food security, poverty reduction, and the environment: What to expect from scaling up CGIAR investments and “Best Bet” programs
von Braun, Joachim; Fan, Shenggen; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997049
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Aligning public expenditure for agricultural development priorities under rapid transformation: The case of China:
Yu, Bingxin; Chen, Kevin Z.; Zhang, Haisen - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
This paper provides a comprehensive review of agricultural policy and public agricultural expenditure (PAE) in China. China shifted away from taxing agriculture to supporting agriculture in the mid-2000s, but the sector faces mounting demographic, biophysical, and trade challenges. PAE in China...
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Resilience Programming among Nongovernmental Organizations: Lessons for Policymakers
Frankenberger, Timothy R.; Constas, Mark A.; Nelson, Suzanne - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
This food policy report reviews resilience processes, activities, and outcomes by examining a number of case studies of initiatives by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to enhance resilience capacity, and draws implications for policymakers and other stakeholders looking to strengthen resilience.
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Climate risk management through sustainable land management in Sub-Saharan Africa:
Nkonya, Ephraim; Place, Frank; Pender, John; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011
Empirical evidence has shown that farmers can adapt to climate change by using sustainable land and water management (SLWM) practices that provide local mitigation benefits, reducing or offsetting the negative effects of climate change at the level of the plot, farm, or even landscape. However,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009366799
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Sustainability, growth, and poverty alleviation: A policy and agroecological perspective
Vosti, Stephen A. (contributor);  … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
interactions between agricultural growth and environment and between environment and poverty. The chapters analyze and illustrate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010752680
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Innovation in natural resource management: The role of property rights and collective action in developing countries
Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela (contributor);  … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
International agricultural research is expanding beyond the development of annual crop technologies for individual farms to the development of longer-tern natural resource management techniques for entire landscapes. But technologies of practices with a long lag time between investment and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010752688