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Evaluation of value-added agricultural advisory services: Case study of agriclinics in Southern India

Glendenning, Claire J.; Asenso-Okyere, Kwadwo; Babu, … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011

Introduction of private enterprises to deliver agricultural advisory services is seen as a strategy to increase the coverage and effectiveness of the pluralistic extension system in developing countries. The Indian national program of agriclinics and agribusiness centers, started in 2002, aims...

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Spatial price transmission and market integration in Senegal’s groundnut market

Badiane, Ousmane; Ulimwengu, John M.; Wouterse, Fleur - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010

The groundnut sector is the largest of Senegal’s agricultural sectors. It has been subject to various degrees of intervention since the country’s independence. Some, including the determination of farm prices by the government have survived the wave of reforms of the 1980s. Groundnut pricing...

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Kenya: property rights

Mwangi, Esther - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006

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The transformation of property rights in Kenya's Maasiland: triggers and motivations

Mwangi, Esther - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2005

"This paper explores the puzzle of why the pastoral Maasai of Kajiado, Kenya, supported the individualization of their collectively held group ranches, an outcome that is inconsistent with theoretical expectation. Findings suggest that individuals and groups will seek to alter property rights in...

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Asian-driven resource booms in Africa: Rethinking the impacts on development

Breisinger, Clemens; Thurlow, James - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008

Zambia as a case study, this paper shows that despite privatization, Dutch disease remains a valid concern and may hamper …

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The child health implications of privatizing Africaâ€™s urban water supply:

Kosec, Katrina - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013

Can private-sector participation (PSP) in the urban piped water sector improve child health? The author uses child-level data from 39 African countries during 1986â€“2010 to show that introducing PSP decreases diarrhea among urban dwelling children under five years of age by 5.6 percentage...

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Atlas of African agriculture research and development: Revealing agriculture's place in Africa

Sebastian, Kate (contributor) - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

The Atlas of African Agriculture Research & Development is a multifaceted resource that highÂlights the ubiquitous nature of smallholder agriculture in Africa; the many factors shaping the location, nature, and performance of agricultural enterprises; and the strong interdeÂpendencies among...

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East African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis

Waithaka, Michael (contributor); … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

The second of three books in IFPRI's climate change in Africa series, East African Agriculture and Climate Change: A Comprehensive Analysis examines the food security threats facing 10 of the countries that make up east and central Africa - Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Kenya,...

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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

productivity growth in SSA continues to lag behind every other region of the world, growing at rates that are roughly half of the … support services for raising agricultural productivity. This study introduces a new dimension to the puzzle of agricultural … productivity growth in SSA: the role of the input mix and the need to increase capital and inputs per worker not only to boost …

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Market imperfections for tractor service provision in Nigeria: International perspectives and empirical evidence:

Takeshima, Hiroyuki - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2015

In order to distinguish the impacts of technology adoption at the extensive margin from those at the intensive margin, in the empirical analyses we tested these hypotheses focusing on the differences among marginal adopters of tractor hiring services and nonadopters of similar characteristics....

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