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Public sector agricultural research priorities for sustainable food security: Perspectives from plausible scenarios:
Nelson, Gerald C.; van der Mensbrugghe, Dominique - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
modeling, cooperative use of institutional and outside substantive expertise, and sustained cooperation with model …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010630750
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Impact assessment of IFPRI's research and related activities based on economywide modeling
Anderson, Kym - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2003
out the utility of an economywide framework (Section 2), before summarizing the inputs into TMD's economywide modeling and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004996480
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Modeling water resources management at the basin level: methodology and application to the Maipo River Basin
Cai, Ximing; Ringler, Claudia; Rosegrant, Mark W. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006
appropriate unit of analysis for addressing the challenges of water resources management. Modeling at this scale can provide … modeling framework. Integrated hydrologic and economic models are well equipped to assess water management and policy issues in … a river basin setting. McKinney et al. (1999) reviewed state-of-the-art modeling approaches to integrated water …
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Group lending with heterogeneous types:
Gan, Li; Hernandez, Manuel A.; Liu, Yanyan - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013
omitted-variable problem resulting from unobserved group types when modeling the repayment behavior of group members. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010685634
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A partial equilibrium model of the Malawi maize commodity market:
Mapila, Mariam A. T. J.; Kirsten, Johann F.; Meyer, … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013
This paper presents a model of the Malawi maize commodity market that is developed for use as a policy analysis tool. The model captures national and local maize market dynamics and the linkages existing within the maize market in the country. This research has been undertaken in order to...
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Assessing the economic benefits of sustainable land management practices in Bhutan:
Nkonya, Ephraim M.; Srinivasan, Raghavan; Anderson, Weston - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
This study was conducted with the objective of determining the returns to sustainable land management (SLM) at the national level in Bhutan. The study first uses satellite data on land change (Landsat) to examine land use change in 1990–2010 and its impact on sediment loading in...
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Summary of Determinants and impact of sustainable land and watershed management investments:
Schmidt, Emily; Chinowsky, Paul; Robinson, Sherman; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
household survey data that evaluates the economic determinants of program sustainability with a detailed hydrological model that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114816
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Summary of Hydrological modeling of sustainable land management interventions in the Mizewa watershed of the Blue Nile Basin:
Schmidt, Emily; Zemadim, Birhanu - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
This analysis utilizes recent hydrological and meteorological data collected from the Mizewa watershed in Fogera woreda in order to better understand the physical impact of sustainable land and watershed management (SLWM) investments. The effectiveness of the simulated conservation practices...
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