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Demand for maize hybrids, seed subsidies, and seed decisionmakers in Zambia
Smale, Melinda; Mason, Nicole - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012
The successful development and diffusion of improved maize seed in Zambia during the 1970s–80s was a major … achievement of African agriculture but was predicated on a government commitment to parastatal grain and seed marketing, the … output when this system was dismantled contributed to the reinstatement in 2002 of subsidies for maize seed and fertilizer …
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Nigerian farmers’ preferences on the timing of the purchase of rice, cowpea, and maize seeds:
Takeshima, Hiroyuki; Nagarajan, Latha; Salau, Sheu; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010
-side constraints pertain to farmers’ characteristics, while supply-side constraints are related to capacity. Farmers’ seed demand … is complex, and empirical information on Nigerian farmers’ seed demand is scarce. One of the less-studied issues is … farmers’ preference for obtaining seeds closer to planting time. Farmers often purchase seed around planting time, when seed …
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Transaction costs and agricultural productivity
Dorosh, Paul A.; Stifel, David; Minten, Bart - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2003
This paper examines the mechanisms that transmit isolation into poverty in Madagascar using household survey data combined with a census of administrative communes. Given the importance of agriculture to the rural poor, where nine out of ten poor persons is engaged in farming, we concentrate on...
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Land and schooling: Transferring wealth across generations
Quisumbing, Agnes R. (contributor);  … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
The authors of this book identify the factors affecting land inheritance and schooling across generations in the Philippines, Indonesia, and Ghana-countries with very different social and cultural traditions. Based on household surveys at each site, the authors examine how these factors affect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010752677
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Who will be fed in the 21st century? Challenges for science and policy
Wiebe, Keith D. (contributor); Ballenger, Nicole (contributor) - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Global food production has more than doubled over the past 40 years, growing faster than population, and will likely keep pace in the 21st century. Yet today one-eighth of the world's people lack secure access to the food they need to live active and healthy lives. This volume describes how...
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Promising approaches to address the needs of poor female farmers: Resources, constraints, and interventions
Quisumbing, Agnes R.; Pandolfelli, Lauren - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009
"Recognizing that “gender matters,” many development interventions have aimed to close the gender gap in access to resources, both human and physical, and to address the specific needs of female farmers. This paper critically reviews attempts to increase poor female farmers' access to, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004967161
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Agricultural research in Ghana: An IFPRI-STEPRI report:
van Rheenen, Teunis; Obirth-Opareh, Nelson; Essegbey, … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010762129
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Land tenurial systems and the adoption of Mucuna planted fallow in the derived savannas of West Africa:
Manyong, Victor M.; Houndékon, Victorin A. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2000
In 1987, an improved resource management system that incorporates velvet bean (Mucuna pruriens var. utilis) to address soil fertility and weed (Imperata cylindrica) infestation was introduced to the small-scale farmers in a densely populated area of the derived savannas in Benin Republic (West...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005113247
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Promises and realities of community-based agricultural extension
Feder, Gershon; Anderson, Jock R.; Birner, Regina; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010
In view of the market failures and the state failures inherent in providing agricultural extension, community-based approaches, which involve farmers‘ groups, have gained increasing importance in recent years as a third way to provide this service. The paper discusses the conceptual...
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Estimating the impact of agricultural technology on poverty reduction in rural Nigeria:
Omilola, Babatunde - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009
"It has often been argued that new agricultural technologies lead to poverty reduction. This paper argues that any changes in poverty situation attributed to those who adopt new agricultural technology (treatment group) without a counterfactual comparison of carefully selected nonadopters...
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