- 2020 Focus
- EventDevelopment in Sub-Saharan Africa is often perceived as being blocked by issues of inappropriate agricultural technologies, immense institutional constraints, and deep problems with the organization and management of agricultural systems. In ...
- Discussion PapersThe National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) program of Uganda is an innovative public-private extension service delivery approach, with the goal of increasing market oriented agricultural production by empowering farmers to demand and ...
- IFPRI ForumSuscripciones
- 2020 FocusCONTENTS: 1. African Agriculture: Past Performance, Future Imperatives / Steven Haggblade, Peter Hazell, Ingrid Kirsten, and Richard Mkandawire; 2. Generalizing from Past Successes / Steven Haggblade; 3. Recent Growth in African Cassava / Felix ...
- IFPRI ForumAbonnements
- Discussion PapersDecentralization implies an increase in the number of stakeholders involved in the design and implementation of interventions. This paper draws upon the experience of a multi-stakeholder program in India which has sought to increase the ...
- 2020 FocusOverview Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Monica Di Gregorio; Understanding Collective Action Elinor Ostrom; Understanding Property Rights Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Rajendra Pradhan, and Monica Di Gregorio; Local-Level Public Goods and Collective ...
- IFPRI BriefsMuchos gobiernos en países en desarrollo intentan estimular el crecimiento y la innovación agropecuaria estableciendo entidades de financiamiento, programas de extensión y centros de investigación pública, así como subvencionando actividades ...
- Discussion PapersThe paper develops a framework for the design and analysis of pluralistic agricultural advisory services and reviews research methods from different disciplines that can be used when applying the framework. Agricultural advisory services are ...
- IFPRI Briefs“Agricultural advisory services play an important role in supporting the use of the agricultural sector as an engine of pro-poor growth and enabling small farmers to meet new challenges, such as accessing export markets, adopting ...
- Discussion PapersMany countries have recognized the need to revive agricultural advisory or extension services (the terms are used interchangeably here) as a means of using agriculture as an engine of pro-poor growth; reaching marginalized, poor, and female ...
- Staff ProfileKristin Davis, a U.S. national, joined IFPRI in November 2004 as a postdoctoral fellow in innovation systems. She is based in Addis Ababa with the ISNAR division. Prior to joining IFPRI, she worked in agricultural development in Eastern Africa. ...
- Discussion PapersAgricultural development policies and programs, including extension and support for innovation, implicitly assume that the whole target population has the ability to innovate. Recent research in neuroscience, education, social sciences and ...
- Discussion PapersDespite more than a decade of policies placing high priority on cereal intensification, backed by one of the highest rates of public expenditures on agricultural in Africa, Ethiopia has yet to see payoffs in terms of higher and more stable cereal ...
- IFPRI BriefsGender norms are an important constraint to increasing agricultural productivity. Inequality in the distribution of resources between men and women is linked with production inefficiency, yet interventions targeting smallholder farmers often fail ...
- Discussion PapersIn order to realize agricultural potential and to increase agricultural yields, India’s extension system has experienced major conceptual, structural, and institutional changes since the late 1990s. This paper reviews existing reform ...
- Discussion PapersThis paper investigates whether public investments that led to improvements in road quality and increased access to agricultural extension services led to faster consumption growth and lower rates of poverty in rural Ethiopia. Estimating an ...
- The impact of agroforestry-based soil fertility replenishment practices on the poor in Western Kenya“Western Kenya is one of the most densely populated areas in Africa. Farming there is characterized by low inputs and low crop productivity. Poverty is rampant in the region. Yet the potential for agriculture is considered good. In the ...
- The impact of agroforestry-based soil fertility replenishment practices on the poor in Western KenyaWestern Kenya is one of the most densely populated areas in Africa. Farming there is characterized by low inputs and low crop productivity. Poverty is rampant in the region. Yet the potential for agriculture is considered good. In the study ...
- IFPRI BriefsMany governments in developing countries attempt to foster agricultural development and innovation by setting up funding facilities, extension programs, and research centers and by subsidizing private-sector and farm activities through fiscal ...
- Project Papers and BriefsL’ampleur et la gravité des répercussions de l’épidémie de VIH/SIDA en Afrique subsaharienne sont effrayantes: la maladie a décimé les pays de la région et à sérieusement compromis la nutrition et la sécurité alimentaire de millions ...
- Project Papers and BriefsLa magnitud y gravedad de las repercusiones del VIH/SIDA en el África subsahariana son abrumadoras. La epidemia está destruyendo los medios de subsistencia y poniendo en grave peligro la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional de millones de hogares. ...
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