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Fertility, agricultural labor supply, and production: Instrumental variable evidence from Uganda:

Van Campenhout, Bjorn - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014

Human fertility is likely to affect agricultural production through its effect on the supply of agricultural labor. Using the fact that in traditional, patriarchal societies sons are often preferred to daughters, we isolated exogenous variation in the number of children born to a mother and...

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Does rice farming shape individualism and innovation? A response to Talhelm et al. (2014):

Ruan, Jianqing; Xie, Zhuan; Zhang, Xiaobo - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014

Talhelm et al. (2014) provided an original rice theory to explain large psychological differences across countries and even within countries and their impact on innovation. However, their findings are subject to the problems of sample bias, measurement error, and model misspecification. After...

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An evaluation of poverty prevalence in China: New evidence from four recent surveys:

Zhang, Chunni; Xu, Qi; Zhang, Xiaobo; Xie, Yu - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013

Knowledge of actual poverty prevalence is important for any society concerned with improving public welfare and reducing poverty. In this paper, we calculate and compare the poverty incidence rate in China using four nationally representative surveys: the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) of...

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Improving diagnostics for aflatoxin detection:

Harvey, Jagger; Gnonlonfin, Benoit; Fletcher, Mary; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013

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Inputs, productivity, and agricultural growth in Africa South of the Sahara:

Nin-Pratt, Alejandro - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2015

and development (R&D), highlighting the need to facilitate farmers access to technology, markets, and the necessary … output per worker but also to accelerate technology adoption and total factor productivity (TFP) growth. According to the … appropriate technology hypothesis, advanced countries invent technologies that are compatible with their own factor mix, but these …

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Understanding menâ€™s and womenâ€™s access to and control of assets and the implications for agricultural development projects: A case study in rice-farming households in eastern U...

Paris, Thelma; Pede, Valerien; Luis, Joyce; Sharma, Raman; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2015

This research was undertaken to understand gender issues on the distribution of, access to, and control over major assets of rice-farming households as well as the effects of technologies promoted by an Agricultural Research for Development (AR4D) project in selected villages in eastern Uttar...

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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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Agricultural science policy: Changing global agendas

Alston, Julian M. (contributor); … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Technological advances developed through R&D have supplied the world with not only more food, but better food. This report looks at issues raised by this changing environment for agricultural productivity, agricultural R&D, and natural resource management.

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Farmer willingness to pay for seed-related information: rice varieties in Nigeria and Benin

Horna, J. Daniela; Smale, Melinda; von Oppen, Matthias - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2005

technology might not generate rivalry among its users. By contrast, excludability is certainly a characteristic of this kind of …

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Impacts of programs and organizations on the adoption of sustainable land management technologies in Uganda:

Jagger, Pamela; Pender, John L. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2003

technologies may be necessary to ensure technology diffusion throughout communities. This information may be taken as an indicator … in the context of land management. The limited impact of agriculture and environment focused organizations on technology … adoption is discouraging though may be linked to the limited profitability of technology adoption in the short-run. …

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