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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)
interest to the US Government’s Feed the Future initiative. These poverty, health, and nutrition outcomes include both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132826
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Agriculture for development in Iraq?: Estimating the impacts of achieving the agricultural targets of the national development plan 2013–2017 on economic growth, incomes, and gen...
Al-Haboby, Azhr; Breisinger, Clemens; Debowicz, Darío; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
This paper estimates the potential effects of achieving the agricultural goals set out in Iraq’s National Development Plan (NDP) 2013–2017 using a dynamic computable general equilibrium model. The findings suggest that raising agricultural productivity in accordance with the NDP...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132687
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Southern African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis
Hachigonta, Sepo (contributor);  … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Southern African Agriculture and Climate Change: A Comprehensive Analysis examines the food security threats facing eight of the countries that make up southern Africa — Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe — and explores how climate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132811
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Resilience for food and nutrition security
Fan, Shenggen (contributor); Pandya-Lorch, Rajul (contributor) - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
In recent years, many people and parts of the world have been hit by major shocks ranging from conflicts, erratic weather patterns, earthquakes, droughts, and floods to food price spikes. At the same time, poor people and communities remain vulnerable to shocks that may be smaller in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114823
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2014–2015 Global Food Policy Report
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); …
This 2014–2015 Global Food Policy Report is the fourth in an annual series that provides a comprehensive overview of major food policy developments and events. In this report, distinguished researchers, policymakers, and practitioners review what happened in food policy in 2014 at the global,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011204459
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Agricultural research, livelihoods, and poverty: Studies of economic and social impacts in six countries
Adato, Michelle (contributor);  … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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 …
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Everyday forms of collective action in Bangladesh: Learning from Fifteen Cases
Davis, Peter - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009
"This paper examines fifteen cases of collective action in six villages in rural Bangladesh. Collective action was defined broadly and identified from significant episodes in previous life-history research in the same villages. The types of collective action identified were catalyzed by marriage;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005113242
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Collective action in plant genetic resources management: gendered rules of reputation, trust and reciprocity in Kerala, India
Padmanabhan, Martina Aruna - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006
administered effort is concerned with the importance of the analytical category of gender for the rules structuring the actions of … the groups. Gender is perceived as an institution, constructing regulations of access and conduct for its members, shaping … which effect? Since action resources are very much determined by the existing construction of gender, the question is how …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005113250
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Gender and local floodplain management institutions: a case study from Bangladesh
Sultana, Parvin; Thompson, Paul - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006
"Floodplain wetlands are the major common pool natural resource in Bangladesh. Mostly men fish, and both men and women collect aquatic plants and snails. Case studies contrast a women-only, men-only, and mixed community based organization (CBO), each of which manages a seasonal floodplain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005113260
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Who should be interviewed in surveys of household income?:
Fisher, Monica; Reimer, Jeffrey J.; Carr, Edward R. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010
statistically reliable results for poverty analysis. Estimates of the wife's income separately provided by the husband and wife … conclusions on the determinants of poverty. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008521824