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Groups, networks, and social capital in the Philippine communities:

Godquin, Marie; Quisumbing, Agnes R. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006

"This paper explores the determinants of group membership and social networks of rural households using a unique longitudinal data set from the rural Philippines. We investigate two types of social capital: membership in groups (production, credit, burial, religious and civic groups), or...

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Communitiesâ€™ perceptions and knowledge of ecosystem services: Evidence from rural communities in Nigeria:

Zhang, Wei; Kato, Edward; Bhandary, Prapti; Nkonya, … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2015

This research has been undertaken to improve our understanding of stakeholdersâ€™ knowledge and perception about ecosystem services (ES), which provides a valuable means of gaining insight into the opportunities and constraints that face ES management in a multiuser landscape. Land use...

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Natural resource conflicts and community organizations in Bangladesh:

Sultana, Parvin; Thompson, Paul M. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013

This analysis assesses community based organization (CBO) performance including conflict management over three years among about 150 floodplain CBOs and reviews experience in the five forest protected areas with co-management.

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Determinants of cereal diversity in communities and on household farms of the Northern Ethiopian Highlands:

Benin, Samuel; Gebremedhin, Berhanu; Smale, Melinda; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2003

grown in communities and on individual farms in the northern Ethiopian highlands....If agrobiodiversity conservation is to … be seriously considered as a policy option in these communities, applied economics researchers will need to 1) establish … social elements that cause communities to behave differently in terms of conservation than the individual household farms of …

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Understanding policy volatility in Sudan:

Harizi, Khalid El; Zaki, El Sayed; Prato, Bettina; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2007

,” as well as large development projects supporting the decentralization or devolution of NR management to local communities …

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Social networks and factor markets: Panel data evidence from Ethiopia:

Abay, Kibrom A.; Kahsay, Goytom A.; Berhane, Guush - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014

We investigate the role of an indigenous social network in Ethiopia, the iddir, in facilitating factor market transactions among smallholder farmers. Using detailed longitudinal household survey data and employing a difference-in-differences approach, we find that iddir membership improves...

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Understanding the policy landscape for climate change adaptation: A cross-country comparison using the Net-map method:

Aberman, Noora-Lisa; Birner, Regina; Haglund, Eric; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2015

In the context of increasing vulnerability to climate change for people dependent on natural resources for their livelihoods, the International Food Policy Research Institute and partner organizations in Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, and Bangladesh undertook a project broadly aiming to create knowledge...

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Social capital and income generation in South Africa, 1993-98

Maluccio, John A.; Haddad, Lawrence James; May, Julian - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1999

The goal of this paper is to determine the nature of the causal relationship between "social capital," as measured by household membership in formal and informal groups and household welfare in South Africa. Using a recently collected panel data set in South Africa's largest province, we...

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How change agents and social capital influence the adoption of innovations among small farmers: Evidence from social networks in rural Bolivia

Monge, Mario; Hartwich, Frank; Halgin, Daniel - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008

"This paper presents results from a study that identified patterns of social interaction among small farmers in three agricultural subsectors in Bolivia—fish culture, peanut production, and quinoa production—and analyzed how social interaction influences farmers' behavior toward the adoption...

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Innovación en el cultivo del maní en Bolivia: Efectos de la interacción social y de las capacidades de absorción de los pequeños productores

Hartwich, Frank; Arispe, Tito; Monge, Mario - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2007

"This report presents the results of a study on local innovation in four peanut-producing regions in Bolivia. It aimed at identifying the type of organizations and mechanisms contributing the most to the adoption of innovations. The theoretical framework utilized suggests that farmers introduce...

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