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Is there an App for that? The impact of community knowledge workers in Uganda:

Van Campenhout, Bjorn - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013

technology through a network of community knowledge workers induce farmers to adapt their crop portfolio, moving away from low-risk …

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Information and communication technologies for development and poverty reduction: The potential of telecommunications

Torero, Maximo (contributor); von Braun, Joachim (contributor) - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

The variety of views about ICTs reveals that their role in development is unclear, especially without convincing evidence of their impact-and little research has been conducted on the direct and indirect links between ICTs and poverty reduction. This book, addresses several pressing questions...

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Information and communication technologies for the poor:

Torero, Maximo; von Braun, Joachim - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2005

This brief is based on Information and Communication Technologies for Development and Poverty Reduction: The Potential of Telecommunications, ed. Maximo Torero and Joachim von Braun (Johns Hopkins University Press and IFPRI, 2006) "The variety of views about ICTs reveals that their role in...

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Eliciting farmersâ€™ valuation for abiotic stress-tolerant rice in India:

Arora, Anchal; Bansal, Sangeeta; Ward, Patrick S. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2015

study aims to explore the potential adoption of these risk-reducing technologies. Using discrete choice experiments …

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Climate, change adaptation assets and group-based approaches: Gendered perceptions from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Mali, and Kenya:

Aberman, Noora-Lisa; Ali, Snigdha; Behrman, Julia A.; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2015

Using a participatory rural appraisal approach, a series of qualitative studies were conducted in four countries facing negative impacts of climate changeâ€”Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Kenya and Maliâ€”in order to determine menâ€™s and womenâ€™s perceptions of climate change,...

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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,...

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Demand for weather hedges in India: An empirical exploration of theoretical predictions:

Hill, Ruth Vargas; Robles, Miguel; Ceballos, Francisco - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013

whether demand behaves as predicted with respect to price, the basis of the hedge, and risk aversion using data from a … randomized control trial in which price and basis risk was varied for a series of hedging products offered to farmers. We find … that demand behaves as predicted, with demand falling with price and basis risk, and appearing hump-shaped in risk aversion …

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Adoption of weather index insurance: Learning from willingness to pay among a panel of households in rural Ethiopia

Hill, Ruth Vargas; Hoddinott, John; Kumar, Neha - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011

educated, rich, and proactive individuals were more likely to purchase insurance. Risk aversion was associated with low … risk reduced demand for insurance, particularly when the price of the contract was high, and that provision of insurance …

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Organizational and institutional issues in climate change adaptation and risk management: Insights from practitionersâ€™ survey in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Mali

Ragasa, Catherine; Sun, Yan; Bryan, Elizabeth; Abate, … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013

This report provides some reflections and insights on the level of awareness, practices, and organizational and institutional issues being faced by countries as they adapt to climate change, based on interviews with 87 practitioners working in government agencies, local organizations,...

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Farmer preferences for drought tolerance in hybrid versus inbred rice: Evidence from Bihar, India:

Ward, Patrick S.; Ortega, David L.; Spielman, David J.; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013

This paper addresses the previously unanswered question of whether the private sector might play a future role in developing similar strains through applications of advanced biotechnology, and whether their research and development efforts would benefit poor and vulnerable farmers in...

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