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What will it take for biofortification to have impact on the ground? Theories of change for three crop-country combinations:

Johnson, Nancy L.; Guedenet, Hannah; Saltzman, Amy - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2015

These theories of change were developed to help the HarvestPlus program deliver on its planned outcomes and impacts. HarvestPlus expects to contribute to the reduction in micronutrient deficiency among women and children in rural areas of developing countries through the breeding and...

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Bargaining power and biofortification: The role of gender in adoption of orange sweet potato in Uganda:

Gilligan, Daniel O.; Kumar, Neha; McNiven, Scott; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014

We examine the role of gender in adoption and diffusion of orange sweet potato, a biofortified staple food crop being promoted as a strategy to increase dietary intakes of vitamin A among young children and adult women in Uganda. As an agricultural intervention with nutrition objectives,...

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Scaling up in agriculture, rural development, and nutrition

Linn, Johannes F. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012

experience of scaling up successful interventions in agriculture, rural development, and nutrition under five broad headings: (1 … Agriculture to Reduce Poverty and Hunger by Kevin Cleaver •Moving Local- and Community-Driven Development from Boutique to Large …, and Purnima Menon •Delivering Nutrients Widely through Biofortification: Building on Orange Sweet Potato by Howdy Bouis …

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Scaling up in agriculture, rural development, and nutrition: Delivering nutrients widely through biofortification: building on orange sweet potato:

Bouis, Howdy; Islam, Yassir - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012

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The wealth and gender distribution of rural services in Ethiopia: A public expenditure benefit Incidence Analysis

Mogues, Tewodaj; Petracco, Carly; Randriamamonjy, Josee - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011

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Is there an App for that? The impact of community knowledge workers in Uganda:

Van Campenhout, Bjorn - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013

Rapidly increasing mobile phone coverage, cheaper technology, and an open platform that allows for the development of applications that extend the use of mobile devices provide new ways to reach farmers in isolated places. We investigate the impact of an intervention that uses information and...

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Agricultural extension in Ethiopia through a gender and governance lens:

Mogues, Tewodaj; Cohen, Marc J.; Birner, Regina; Lemma, … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009

Drawing on a household survey collected in eight woredas in seven Ethiopian regions in 2009, as well as on qualitative fieldwork in four of the eight woredas, this paper provides analysis of agricultural extension delivery in Ethiopia. While overall extension services are relatively accessible...

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Impact of Uganda's National Agricultural Advisory Services program:

Benin, Samuel; Nkonya, Ephraim; Okecho, Geresom; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011

In Uganda, agricultural extension has been hotly debated since the implementation of the National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) program in 2001. Conceived as a demand-driven approach and largely publicly funded with services provided by the private sector, the NAADS program targets the...

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Promises and realities of community-based agricultural extension

Feder, Gershon; Anderson, Jock R.; Birner, Regina; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010

In view of the market failures and the state failures inherent in providing agricultural extension, community-based approaches, which involve farmers‘ groups, have gained increasing importance in recent years as a third way to provide this service. The paper discusses the conceptual...

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Combining extension services with agricultural credit

Mahajan, Vijay; Vasumathi, K. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010

India has nearly 90 million farm households. More than 80 percent of these farmers operate on a small or marginal scale, farming less than two hectares of land. They also usually have one or two buffaloes or cows, reared for milk and dung. Most of these small and marginal farmers fall below the...

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