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Time allocation to energy resource collection in rural Ethiopia: Gender-disaggregated household responses to changes in firewood availability:
Scheurlen, Elena - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2015
This paper presents evidence on rural Ethiopian households’ time allocation to different activities, especially fuel collection work, and examines the effect of changes in the availability of firewood resources on households’ time allocation to fuel collection and on- and off-farm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011200212
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Typology of farm households and irrigation systems: Some evidence from Nigeria
Takeshima, Hiroyuki; Edeh, Hyacinth - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010685632
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Agricultural mechanization patterns in Nigeria: Insights from farm household typology and agricultural household model simulation:
Takeshima, Hiroyuki; Nin-Pratt, Alejandro; Diao, Xinshen - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010700933
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Gender differences in access to extension services and agricultural productivity:
Ragasa, Catherine; Berhane, Guush; Tadesse, Fanaye; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012
,500 households and 32,000 plots in four major regions in Ethiopia that was collected during the 2010 main season. Results suggest … that female heads of households and plot managers are less likely to get extension services and less likely to access …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010762117
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Quantitative analysis of rural poverty in Nigeria:
Omonona, Bolarin T. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009
Poverty in Nigeria is pervasive although the country is rich in human and material resources that should translate into better living standards. According to the most recent survey (2004 National Living Standards Survey) presented by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS 2007, about 69 million...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010762146
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Ex-post impact assessment review of the Regional Network on AIDS, Livelihoods, and Food Security (RENEWAL):
Frankenberger, Timothy R.; Nelson, Suzanne - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011
generate new policy-relevant knowledge on how households and communities may strengthen both their resistance to HIV …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132593
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Agricultural production and children’s diets: Evidence from rural Ethiopia:
Hirvonen, Kalle; Hoddinott, John F. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
production does not hold for households that have access to food markets. These findings imply that nutrition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132621
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Links between tenure security and food security: Evidence from Ethiopia:
Hagos, Hosaena Ghebru; Holden, Stein - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013
-headed households, either through enhanced land rental market participation or increased investment and productivity on owner …-operated land. Results also show that members of households that accessed additional land through the land rental market had a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132632
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Can government-allocated land contribute to food security? Intrahousehold analysis of West Bengal’s microplot allocation program:
Santos, Florence; Fletschner, Diana; Savath, Vivien; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013
Secure land rights are a critical, but often overlooked, factor in achieving household food security and improved nutritional status in rural areas of developing countries. This study evaluates the impact of India’s land-allocation and registration program in West Bengal, a program that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132636
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Land rights knowledge and conservation in rural Ethiopia: Mind the gender gap:
Quisumbing, Agnes R.; Kumar, Neha - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
registration on investment behavior by households, particularly the adoption of soil conservation techniques and tree planting. It …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132637