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The impact of shocks on gender-differentiated asset dynamics in Bangladesh:

Rakib, Muntaha; Matz, Julia Anna - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014

Assets are an important means of coping with adverse events in developing countries but the role of gendered ownership … of assets, but relative ownership varies by type of asset. …

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Gender, assets, and agricultural development: Lessons from eight projects:

Johnson, Nancy L.; Kovarik, Chiara; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2015

Ownership of assets is important for poverty alleviation, and womenâ€™s control of assets is associated with positive … at the household level; however, only four projects documented significant, positive impacts in womenâ€™s ownership or …

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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...

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The economics of generating and maintaining plant variety rights in China:

Koo, Bonwoo; Pardey, Philip G.; Qian, Keming; Zhang, Yi - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2003

Notwithstanding the ambiguous research and productivity promoting effects of plant variety protections (PVPs), even in developed countries, many developing countries have adopted PVPs in the past few years to comply with their Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS)...

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Can integrated agriculture-nutrition programs change gender norms on land and asset ownership? Evidence from Burkina Faso:

van den Bold, Mara; Pedehombga, Abdoulaye; Ouédraogo, … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013

-Homestead Food Production pilot program in Burkina Faso on womenâ€™s and menâ€™s assets and on norms regarding ownership, use, and …€™s control over and ownership of assets has started to change, both in terms of quantifiable changes as well as changes in …

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Land, assets, and livelihoods: Gendered analysis of evidence from Odisha State in India:

Savath, Vivien; Fletschner, Diana; Peterman, Amber; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014

Using data collected from the evaluation of two government land titling interventions in the Indian state of Odisha, this paper examines key relationships linking land and livelihood strategies. The investigation is one of the first to explicitly use the Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project...

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Migration and technical efficiency in cereal production: Evidence from Burkina Faso

Wouterse, Fleur S. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008

continental migration on technical efficiency in the production of two cereals—millet and sorghum—by rural households. Econometric … positive relation between continental migration and technical efficiency and a negative relation between intercontinental … migration and technical efficiency. In an imperfect market environment, continental migration is associated with greater …

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Efficiency and productivity differential effects of land certification program in Ethiopia: Quasi-experimental evidence from Tigray:

Hagos, Hosaena Ghebru; Holden, Stein - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014

the benefits from any improvements in input use intensity (technical efficiency). For this purpose, we adopted a data … efficiency differences, reflecting the technical efficiency effect, and (2) differences in the group production frontier …

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Agriculture, food, and health perspectives on a long relationship: understanding the links between agriculture and health

Lang, Tim - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006

"Agriculture produces food fundamental for human health. It therefore seems obvious that agriculture, food, and health are related! Agriculture affects whether people have enough food to eat, whether it is of sufficient nutritional value, and whether it is safe, all of which affect human health....

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Managing risk with insurance and savings: Experimental evidence for male and female farm managers in West Africa:

Delavallade, Clara; Dizon, Felipe; Hill, Ruth Vargas; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2015

male and female farmers who are offered index-based agricultural insurance with those who are offered a variety of savings … instruments. We found that female farm managers were less likely to purchase agricultural insurance and more likely to invest in … savings for emergencies, even when we controlled for access to informal insurance and differences in crop choice. We …

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