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Understanding men’s and women’s access to and control of assets and the implications for agricultural development projects: A case study in rice-farming households in eastern U...
Paris, Thelma; Pede, Valerien; Luis, Joyce; Sharma, Raman; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2015
This research was undertaken to understand gender issues on the distribution of, access to, and control over major assets of rice-farming households as well as the effects of technologies promoted by an Agricultural Research for Development (AR4D) project in selected villages in eastern Uttar...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272214
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Droughts and floods in Malawi
Pauw, Karl; Thurlow, James; van Seventer, Dirk - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010
crucial to understand the implications of these extreme climate events. Not only are rural livelihoods affected due to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008505314
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Investigating the role of poultry in livelihoods and the impact of avian flu on livelihoods outcomes in Africa
Birol, Ekin; Asare-Marfo, Dorene; Ayele, Gezahegn; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010
In this paper we investigate the role of poultry in households’ livelihoods portfolios and the impact of supply …-and-demand shocks that may be caused by highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) on households’ various livelihoods outcomes in four Sub … livelihoods outcomes by using the propensity score matching approach. The results of this study generate valuable information …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008519791
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Managing conflict over natural resources in greater Kordofan, Sudan: Some recurrent patterns and governance implications
Siddig, El Fatih Ali; El-Harizi, Khalid; Prato, Bettina - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2007
"Despite the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement, which brought to an end 20 years of civil war in the Sudan, this country continues to experience smaller-scale conflicts, particularly around access to and control of natural resources. Some observers lay the blame for this on ethnopolitical or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005038119
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Comprehensive food security and vulnerability analysis: Nigeria:
Kuku, Oluyemisi; Mathiassen, Astrid; Wadhwa, Amit; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013
The Nigerian Comprehensive Food Security and Vulnerability Analysis (CFSVA) provides an in-depth assessment of the food security situation within Nigeria. This is very important as it equips policymakers with timely and relevant information that will aid the targeting of interventions.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010685631
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Assessing the livelihood impacts of a livestock disease outbreak: An alternative approach
Birol, Ekin; Ndirangu, Lydia; Roy, Devesh; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011
can be an important threat to livelihoods. Yet for a variety of reasons, there are few applicable methods and consequently … an alternative approach for estimating the impacts of livestock diseases on livelihoods. This proposed approach is an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009189438
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Investigating economywide and household-level impacts of sector-specific shocks in a poor country: The case of avian flu in Ethiopia
Ayele, Gezahegne; Birol, Ekin; Diao, Xinshen; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010
traditional poultry sector is weakly linked to other sectors, 2) livelihoods of the poultry-producing households are diversified …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008862321
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Land, assets, and livelihoods: Gendered analysis of evidence from Odisha State in India:
Savath, Vivien; Fletschner, Diana; Peterman, Amber; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
Using data collected from the evaluation of two government land titling interventions in the Indian state of Odisha, this paper examines key relationships linking land and livelihood strategies. The investigation is one of the first to explicitly use the Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132673
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Sarpanch raj: is the President all powerful?
Palaniswamy, Nethra - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010
The policy of mandated representation (reservation) for disadvantaged social groups in Indian village councils or Gram Panchayats has been the subject of numerous studies. The implicit, and often unstated, assumption that underlies most of these studies is that the president of the council is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008505339
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Do external grants to district governments discourage own-revenue generation?: A look at local public finance dynamics in Ghana
Mogues, Tewodaj; Benin, Samuel; Cudjoe, Godsway - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008476184