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Measuring progress toward empowerment: Women's empowerment in agriculture index: Baseline report
Malapit, Hazel J.; Sproule, Kathryn; Kovarik, Chiara; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) baseline survey results, summarizing both findings from the WEAI survey and the relationships between the WEAI and various outcomes of interest to the US Government’s Feed the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132826
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The role of agriculture in development: Implications for Sub-Saharan Africa
Diao, Xinshen; Hazell, P.B.R.; Resnick, Danielle; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2007
"This report provides a nuanced perspective on debates about the potential for Africa's smallholder agriculture to … remains skeptical about agriculture's development potential for Africa. In order to examine in greater detail the relevance … for Africa of both the “old” and “new” literatures on agriculture, the paper provides a typology of African countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005037900
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The role of agriculture in development: implications for Sub-Saharan Africa
Diao, Xinshen; Hazell, Peter; Resnick, Danielle; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006
"This paper provides a nuanced perspective on debates about the potential for Africa's smallholder agriculture to … remains skeptical about agriculture's development potential for Africa. In order to examine in greater detail the relevance … for Africa of both the “old” and “new” literatures on agriculture, the paper provides a typology of African countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005037950
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Food policy and market reform in Viet Nam and Bangladesh: essay in Annual Report
Ahmed, Raisuddin; Goletti, Francesco - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004996830
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Land tenure and natural resource management
Otsuka, Keijiro; Place, Frank - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2001
the reduction of farm size and the decline of natural resources. Through a comparison of Asia and Africa, the evolution of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004996867
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Rice market liberalization and poverty in Viet Nam:
Minot, Nicholas; Goletti, Francesco - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2000
Market liberalization, though an important element in economic reforms in developing countries in the past two decades, has been accused of harming the poor through higher food prices, layoffs in formerly state-owned enterprises, and the erosion of social safety net programs. Since the 1980s...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005037883
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Economic growth and poverty reduction in Indochina: lessons from East Asia
Bautista, Romeo M. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1999
, Philippines, Thailand, South Korea, and Taiwan) provide a fertile ground for policy analysis from which important lessons are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008863978
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Scaling up in agriculture, rural development, and nutrition
Linn, Johannes F. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012
System of Rice Intensification in Northern Vietnam by Gina E. Castillo, Minh Nguyet Le, and Kimberly Pfeifer •The Bill …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010735452
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Socioeconomic considerations in biosafety decisionmaking: Methods and implementation
Horna, Daniela (contributor); Zambrano, Patricia (contributor) - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
process. Using the case of GM cotton in Uganda, the authors illustrate the evaluation of socioeconomic impact on farmers, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010765168
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Genetically modified crops in Africa: Economic and policy lessons from countries south of the Sahara
Falck-Zepeda, Jose Benjamin (contributor);  … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
security despite such constraints. Genetically Modified Crops in Africa: Economic and Policy Lessons from Countries South of … skeptical of them. These and other findings in Genetically Modified Crops in Africa indicate ways biotechnology can contribute … to economic development in Africa south of the Sahara. …
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