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M-PESA: Finding new ways to serve the unbanked in Kenya
Lonie, Susie - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010
Over the past three years, payment strategies for emerging markets have been revolutionized by the advent of a simple cell-phone-based payment service in Kenya called M-PESA (“M” for “mobile” and “pesa” for “money”). From a small-scale pilot program in 2006, M-PESA has become an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008523841
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Making market information services work better for the poor in Uganda:
Ferris, Shaun; Engoru, Patrick; Kaganzi, Elly - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008
"There is growing pressure for farmers in countries such as Uganda to accelerate their efforts to commercialize production in the face of increasing market competition from neighboring countries and across the world. To assist farmers, a new generation of low cost market information services is...
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Economywide impacts of climate change on agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa:
Calzadilla, Alvaro; Zhu, Tingju; Rehdanz, Katrin; Tol, … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009
"Two possible adaptation options to climate change for Sub-Saharan Africa are analyzed under the SRES B2 scenario. The first scenario doubles the irrigated area in Sub-Saharan Africa by 2050, compared to the baseline, but keeps total crop area constant. The second scenario increases both rainfed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004967176
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Female participation in African agricultural research and higher education: New insights
Beintema, Nienke M.; Di Marcantonio, Federica - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010
representation of women in the field of agricultural science and technology (S&T) in Sub-Saharan Africa. Female scientists … included in this study increased by 20 percent between 2000/01 and 2007/08, and women constituted almost half of this capacity … education agencies increased from 18 percent in 2000/01 to 24 percent in 2007/08, but fewer women have advanced degrees compared …
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Strengthening agricultural education and training in Sub-Saharan Africa from an innovation systems perspective: Case studies of Ethiopia and Mozambique
Davis, Kristin; Ekboir, Javier; Mekasha, Wendmsyamregne; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2007
"This paper examines the role of postsecondary agricultural education and training (AET) in Sub-Saharan Africa in the context of the region's agricultural innovation systems. Specifically, the paper looks at how AET in Sub-Saharan Africa can contribute to agricultural development by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005038088
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Investing in African agriculture to halve poverty by 2015:
Fan, Shenggen; Johnson, Michael; Saurkar, Anuja; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008
"This paper proposes a simple methodology to estimate the agricultural spending that will be required to achieve the Millennium Development Goal of halving poverty by 2015 (MDG1) in 30 sub-Saharan African countries. This method uses growth-poverty and growth-expenditure elasticities to estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005038121
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Income growth and gender bias in childhood mortality in developing countries:
Ueyama, Mika - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2007
"With poverty studies having shifted their focus from household poverty to individual poverty, a number of studies have started to examine intrahousehold resource allocation, especially gender bias within the household as potential causes of poverty. The literature has highlighted the existence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005038146
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How can African agriculture adapt to climate change: Economywide impacts of climate change on agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa:
Calzadilla, Alvaro; Zhu, Tingju; Rehdanz, Katrin; Tol, … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009
Approximately 80 percent of poor people in Sub-Saharan Africa continue to depend on the agricultural sector for their livelihoods, but-unlike in other regions of the world-agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa is characterized by very low yields due to agroecological features, poor access to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010561565
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Food prices and poverty reduction in the long run:
Headey, Derek D. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
the long run (one to five years) higher food prices reduce poverty and inequality. The magnitudes of these effects vary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010755486
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Patterns and trends of child and maternal nutrition inequalities in Nigeria
Omilola, Babatunde - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010
nutritional status as well as the factors responsible for inequalities in health and nutritional status of children and women in … status of children and women in Nigeria. Inequalities between demographic and socioeconomic groups are less important. Child … basic services (such as safe drinking water and good sanitation), education of women, and direct nutritional interventions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008505315