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Working multisectorally in nutrition: Principles, practices, and case studies

Garrett, James; Natalicchio, Marcela - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011

Improving nutrition in developing nations is likely to require a multisectoral approach that involves a variety of ministries and organizations addressing particular aspects of the problem. Despite the promise of such multisectoral efforts, relatively little research has been done on how such...

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Paying for agricultural productivity

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

Agricultural research and development has stimulated enormous increases in agricultural productivity in the twentieth century. Now, in response to common pressures, countries the world over are changing how they manage and pay for agricultural R&D. Paying for Agricultural Productivity reviews...

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International conference on policy and institutional options for the management of rangelands in dry areas: workshop summary paper

Ngaido, Tidiane; McCarthy, Nancy; Di Gregorio, Monica - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2002

"The System-wide Program for Collective Action and Property Rights (CAPRi) sponsored an International Conference on Policy and Institutional Options for the Management of Rangelands in Dry Areas, May 7-11, 2001 in Hammamet, Tunisia. The conference focused on institutional aspects of rangeland...

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Strengthening agricultural education and training in Sub-Saharan Africa from an innovation systems perspective: Case studies of Ethiopia and Mozambique

Davis, Kristin; Ekboir, Javier; Mekasha, Wendmsyamregne; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2007

"This paper examines the role of postsecondary agricultural education and training (AET) in Sub-Saharan Africa in the context of the region's agricultural innovation systems. Specifically, the paper looks at how AET in Sub-Saharan Africa can contribute to agricultural development by...

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Information and communication technologies for development and poverty reduction: The potential of telecommunications

Torero, Maximo (contributor); von Braun, Joachim (contributor) - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

The variety of views about ICTs reveals that their role in development is unclear, especially without convincing evidence of their impact-and little research has been conducted on the direct and indirect links between ICTs and poverty reduction. This book, addresses several pressing questions...

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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 â€” Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea,...

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The contribution of IFPRI research and the impact of the Food for Education Program in Bangladesh on schooling outcomes and earnings

Ryan, James G.; Meng, Xin - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2004

experimental evaluation methodology is used on household sample survey data to analyze the effects of FFE on schooling outcomes …

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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,...

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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 …

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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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