Those who study global poverty and ways to reduce it face a perennial set of questions: Do advances in knowledge … benefits? The contributors to Agricultural Research, Livelihoods, and Poverty shed light on these questions through a … collection of case studies that explore the types of impact that agricultural research has had on livelihoods and poverty in low …

Empirical evidence suggests that women are more vulnerable to chronic poverty and gender inequality is likely to … condition the impacts of policies on the rest of the economy and consequently on poverty itself. While gender … debate by assessing the induced gender employment bias of current taxation policies in these countries. It explores the …

Using the case of Zambia, this paper examines whether structural change translates into reduced poverty and improved … generated additional jobs, but the share of employment growth from these sectors was small and skewed more toward higher …

Rural non-farm development plays a key role in generating employment in many developing countries. Clustering is an …

The second of three books in IFPRI's climate change in Africa series, East African Agriculture and Climate Change: A … contributors of East African Agriculture and Climate Change present plausible future scenarios that combine economic and … biophysical characteristics to explore the possible consequences for agriculture, food security, and resources management to 2050 …

The Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) is one of the main components of the New Partnership … as a continent-wide framework to facilitate faster agricultural growth and progress toward poverty reduction and food and … growth and poverty-reduction outcomes. …