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Hybrid seed use and diversity of diets among women in smallholder maize: Growing households in Zambia
Smale, Melinda; Moursi, Mourad; Birol, Ekin; De Groote, Hugo - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010705897
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Evaluating the impact of land tenure and titling on access to credit in Uganda:
Petracco, Carly K.; Pender, John - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009
concerns in Uganda and in all of Africa, as greater emphasis is placed on the need to modernize the agricultural system. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005038079
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Policy reform toward gender equality in Ethiopia: Little by little the egg begins to walk
Kumar, Neha; Quisumbing, Agnes R. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012
There is growing interest in the role of policy reforms to promote gender equality and empower women, two key objectives of development policy. From a policy perspective, it would be ideal for reforms undertaken in different policy areas to be consistent, so that they reinforce each other in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132619
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Policy reform toward gender equality in Ethiopia: Little by little the egg begins to walk
Kumar, Neha; Quisumbing, Agnes R. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012
There is growing interest in the role of policy reforms to promote gender equality and empower women, two key objectives of development policy. From a policy perspective, it would be ideal for reforms undertaken in different policy areas to be consistent, so that they reinforce each other in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132728
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Reverse-share-tenancy and Marshallian Inefficiency: Landowners’ bargaining power and sharecroppers’ productivity
Hagos, Hosaena Gebru; Holden, Stein T. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013
While there are ample empirical studies that claim the potential disincentive effects of sharecropping arrangements, the existing literature is shallow in explaining why share tenancy contracts are prevalent and diffusing in many developing countries. Using a unique tenant-landlord matched...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132654
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2014–2015 Global Food Policy Report
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); …
This 2014–2015 Global Food Policy Report is the fourth in an annual series that provides a comprehensive overview of major food policy developments and events. In this report, distinguished researchers, policymakers, and practitioners review what happened in food policy in 2014 at the global,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011204459
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The role of agriculture in development: Implications for Sub-Saharan Africa
Diao, Xinshen; Hazell, P.B.R.; Resnick, Danielle; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2007
"This report provides a nuanced perspective on debates about the potential for Africa's smallholder agriculture to … remains skeptical about agriculture's development potential for Africa. In order to examine in greater detail the relevance … for Africa of both the “old” and “new” literatures on agriculture, the paper provides a typology of African countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005037900
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The role of agriculture in development: implications for Sub-Saharan Africa
Diao, Xinshen; Hazell, Peter; Resnick, Danielle; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006
"This paper provides a nuanced perspective on debates about the potential for Africa's smallholder agriculture to … remains skeptical about agriculture's development potential for Africa. In order to examine in greater detail the relevance … for Africa of both the “old” and “new” literatures on agriculture, the paper provides a typology of African countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005037950
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West African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis
Jalloh, Abdulai; Nelson, Gerald C.; Thomas, Timothy S.; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013
The first of three books in IFPRI’s climate change in Africa series, West African Agriculture and Climate Change: A … Comprehensive Analysis examines the food security threats facing 11 of the countries that make up West Africa — Benin, Burkina … Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo — and explores how climate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010755479
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West African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis
Jalloh, Abdulai (contributor); Nelson, Gerald C. (contributor) - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
The first of three books in IFPRI’s climate change in Africa series, West African Agriculture and Climate Change: A … Comprehensive Analysis examines the food security threats facing 11 of the countries that make up West Africa – Benin, Burkina Faso …, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo – and explores how climate change …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011145651