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Understanding the context for agriculture for nutrition research: Identifying country typologies of child-stunting determinants:

Maruyama, Eduardo; Unnevehr, Laurian J.; Wang, Jiarui - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014

agriculture-led interventions might address binding constraints to progress in improving nutrition outcomes and to identify 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 … surveys the literature from 1998 to 2008 that describes interventions and policy changes across several key agricultural …. Compared with interventions designed to increase investment in human capital, only a minority of interventions or policy …

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The food security system: A new conceptual framework

Ecker, Olivier; Breisinger, Clemens - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012

Public agricultural extension systems often fail due to inadequate consultation of farmers about their information needs and poor understanding of their information search strategies. In discussing and implementing extension programs and advisory services, the following questions need to be...

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Sustainability of EU Food Safety Certification: A survival analysis of firm decisions:

Ragasa, Catherine; Thornsbury, Suzanne; Joshi, Satish - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013

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Contract farming of swine in Southeast Asia as a response to changing market demand for quality and safety in pork:

Tiongco, Marites; Catelo, Maria Angeles; Lapar, Ma. Lucila - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008

"Contract farming is conventionally thought of as a form of industrial organization that helps to overcome high monitoring, supervision, and environmental mitigation costs incurred from ensuring a reliable and uniform-quality supply (from the standpoint of integrators) and high capital and...

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Quality control in non-staple food markets: Evidence from India

Fafchamps, Marcel; Vargas Hill, Ruth; Minten, Bart - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2007

"Using original data collected about growers, traders, processors, markets, and village communities, we compare the situation in four states – Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Orissa. We examine the way that information about crop attributes is conveyed (or not) along the value...

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Economywide impact of avian flu in Ghana: A dynamic CGE model analysis

Diao, Xinshen - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009

"We use a dynamic CGE model to quantitatively assess the economywide impact of HPAI in Ghana. The likely effect of an avian flu outbreak is modeled as demand or supply shocks to the poultry sector. Our analysis shows that, while chicken is a quite small sector of the Ghanaian economy, the shock...

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The operational evidence base for delivering direct nutrition interventions in India: A desk review:

Rasmi, Avula; Kadiyala, Suneetha; Singh, Kavita; Menon, … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013

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How safe is my food?: Assessing the effect of information and credible certification on consumer demand for food safety in developing countries

Birol, Ekin; Roy, Devesh; Torero, Maximo - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010

The literature regarding consumer demand for safer food in developing countries is scant, and the general assumption is that these consumers' willingness to pay (WTP, as an indicator of their demand) is constrained by their low ability to pay (ATP). There are, however, a number of developing...

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Strategies to control aflatoxin in groundnut value chains:

Florkowski, Wojciech J.; Kolavalli, Shashidhara - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014

Groundnuts, which are widely consumed in West Africa, are prone to contamination by aflatoxin during production and storage. Although aflatoxin plays a role in many of the important health risks in developing countries, individuals and governments ignore the risks because their health effects...

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