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2012 Global Food Policy Report
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); … - 2013
This 2012 Global Food Policy Report is the second in an annual series that provides an in-depth look at major food policy developments and events. Initiated in response to resurgent interest in food security, the series offers a yearly overview of the food policy developments that have...
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Determinants of cereal diversity in communities and on household farms of the Northern Ethiopian Highlands:
Benin, Samuel; Gebremedhin, Berhanu; Smale, Melinda; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2003
grown in communities and on individual farms in the northern Ethiopian highlands....If agrobiodiversity conservation is to … be seriously considered as a policy option in these communities, applied economics researchers will need to 1) establish … social elements that cause communities to behave differently in terms of conservation than the individual household farms of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004996738
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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
"This paper explores the determinants of group membership and social networks of rural households using a unique longitudinal data set from the rural Philippines. We investigate two types of social capital: membership in groups (production, credit, burial, religious and civic groups), or...
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Understanding policy volatility in Sudan:
Harizi, Khalid El; Zaki, El Sayed; Prato, Bettina; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2007
,” as well as large development projects supporting the decentralization or devolution of NR management to local communities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005038123
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Communities’ perceptions and knowledge of ecosystem services: Evidence from rural communities in Nigeria:
Zhang, Wei; Kato, Edward; Bhandary, Prapti; Nkonya, … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2015
This research has been undertaken to improve our understanding of stakeholders’ knowledge and perception about ecosystem services (ES), which provides a valuable means of gaining insight into the opportunities and constraints that face ES management in a multiuser landscape. Land use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011200219
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Natural resource conflicts and community organizations in Bangladesh:
Sultana, Parvin; Thompson, Paul M. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013
This analysis assesses community based organization (CBO) performance including conflict management over three years among about 150 floodplain CBOs and reviews experience in the five forest protected areas with co-management.
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Resilience Programming among Nongovernmental Organizations: Lessons for Policymakers
Frankenberger, Timothy R.; Constas, Mark A.; Nelson, Suzanne - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
This food policy report reviews resilience processes, activities, and outcomes by examining a number of case studies of initiatives by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to enhance resilience capacity, and draws implications for policymakers and other stakeholders looking to strengthen resilience.
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Climate risk management through sustainable land management in Sub-Saharan Africa:
Nkonya, Ephraim; Place, Frank; Pender, John; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011
Empirical evidence has shown that farmers can adapt to climate change by using sustainable land and water management (SLWM) practices that provide local mitigation benefits, reducing or offsetting the negative effects of climate change at the level of the plot, farm, or even landscape. However,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009366799
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Sustainability, growth, and poverty alleviation: A policy and agroecological perspective
Vosti, Stephen A. (contributor);  … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Developing countries are under pressure to produce more food for their growing populations, conserve natural resources, and reduce poverty. In the short term, however, these goals may compete with one another. This book focuses on the interactions between agricultural growth and environment and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010752680
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Innovation in natural resource management: The role of property rights and collective action in developing countries
Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela (contributor);  … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
International agricultural research is expanding beyond the development of annual crop technologies for individual farms to the development of longer-tern natural resource management techniques for entire landscapes. But technologies of practices with a long lag time between investment and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010752688