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have experienced the reduction of farm size and the decline of natural resources. Through a comparison of Asia and Africa …
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This 2013 Global Food Policy Report is the third 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 and nutrition security, the series offers a yearly overview of the food policy developments that...
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Those who study global poverty and ways to reduce it face a perennial set of questions: Do advances in knowledge, research, and technology make a real difference in the lives of poor people? What effect does research have on the poor? Who benefits? The contributors to Agricultural Research,...
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studies have done, this book identifies episodes of successful agricultural growth in Africa and identifies processes …, the farming of maize in East and Southern Africa, cassava across the middle belt of Africa, cotton in West Africa …, horticulture in Kenya, and dairying in East Africa. …
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Public Expenditures, Growth, and Poverty assesses the efficacy of poverty reduction programs in Latin America, Africa … safety net programs and a chapter devoted solely to the vexing poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, Public Expenditures, Growth …
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The long-term reduction of hunger and poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa remains one of the great challenges for the … farmers and consumers in Sub-Saharan Africa. The authors find that reforms have had many favorable results, but that the … development of agricultural markets in Sub-Saharan Africa, identifying areas where governments can play a supportive role. They …
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This study provides an independent external assessment of the impact of IFPRI’s work in Ethiopia during 1995–2010. From 1995 to 2004, nearly all of IFPRI’s Ethiopia work was undertaken by Washington-based research teams working on specific themes under various “global...
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The sector-wide approach currently dominates as the strategy for developing the agricultural sector of many African countries. Although it is recognized that agricultural research plays a vital role in ensuring success of sectorwide agricultural development strategies, there has been little or...
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In this paper we assess (a) consumers’ willingness to pay (WTP) for a recently developed variety of maize that is high in provitamin A in the context of a public health intervention and (b) the performance of three elicitation mechanisms in estimating WTP in a field experiment in Ghana....
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