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Local sources of resilience: Working with social capital:
Bernier, Quinn; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
People have always faced shocks and have devised a variety of institutional responses to cope with, recover from, and prevent future impacts. Central to these shocks and this coping capacity, but often underexplored, is the role of social capital. Social capital includes “features of...
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Resilience and social capital:
Bernier, Quinn; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
Increasingly, resilience is being incorporated into planning and social protection policy. People have been facing shocks, both natural and anthropogenic, forever, devising and innovating a variety of institutional responses to cope with, recover from, and prevent future impacts. Central to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277436
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Methods for studying collective action in rural development:
Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela; Di Gregorio, Monica; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2004
With renewed recognition of the importance of collective action in many aspects of agriculture, natural resource management, and rural development programs in developing countries, there is a need for research on the factors that affect its emergence, as well as its performance. Yet because of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005113253
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Social innovation and entrepreneurship: Developing capacity to reduce poverty and hunger
Babu, Suresh; Pinstrup-Andersen, Per - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004996913
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Understanding, measuring and utilizing social capital: clarifying concepts and presenting a field application from India
Krishna, Anirudh - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2003
Social capital is a resource, a propensity for mutually beneficial collective action that communities possess to different extents. Communities with high levels of social capital are able to act together collectively for achieving diverse common objectives. While the concept of social capital is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005101409
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Gender, social capital and information exchange in rural Uganda:
Katungi, Enid; Edmeades, Svetlana; Smale, Melinda - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006
generally having better access to social capital than women. We also find strong evidence in support of group-based technology …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005105967
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Gender differences in mobilization for collective action: case studies of villages in Northern Nigeria
Abdulwahid, Saratu - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006
"Men and women participate in collective action for different purposes in northern Nigeria. Field work conducted in six … collection and maintenance of the traditional village government, women mobilize around activities such as savings, house and … public orientation and because they want to maintain their dominance of that space. Women, in contrast, mobilize around …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005105970
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Groups, networks, and social capital in the Philippine communities:
Godquin, Marie; Quisumbing, Agnes R. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006
” social capital. Because men and women may have different propensities to invest in social capital, we analyze the … determinants of group membership both at the household level and for men and women separately. We also disaggregate the analysis by … greater exposure to shocks and a higher incidence of peace and order problems increase group membership. Men and women do not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005105971
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Collective action initiatives to improve marketing performance: Lessons from farmer groups in Tanzania
Barham, James; Chitemi, Clarence - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008
"The primary inquiry of this study is to identify and understand the underlying factors that enable smallholder farmer groups to improve their market situation. The specific objective of this paper is to examine to what extent certain group characteristics and asset endowments facilitate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005028113
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Shocks, groups, and networks in Bukidnon, Philippines:
Quisumbing, Agnes R.; McNiven, Scott; Godquin, Marie - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008
"This study examines the role of groups and networks in helping poor Filipinos manage their exposure to risks and cope with shocks. It brings together two strands of literature that examine how social capital affects economic variables and investigate the processes by which social capital...
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