- General InformationComplex policy problems call for complex solutions that require the involvement of multiple stakeholders. For example, both developing and developed countries have instituted multi-stakeholder water governance bodies on local, national, and ...
- Discussion PapersWith the beginning of the new millennium and the increasing concerns with regard to wild privatization reforms, African governments, international donors and development scholars have been showing renewed interest in collective action. As a ...
- Discussion PapersThe link between economic distribution and social conflict-and the notion that this link arises from individuals’ sense of identification with those similar to them and their feelings of alienation from individuals with different ...
- This study investigated access to agricultural extension and rural water supply and assessed strategies to improve the provision of these services by strengthening accountability. The study paid special attention to the gender dimension of ...
- Discussion PapersParticipatory approaches are an increasingly prominent technique for designing agricultural strategies within Sub-Saharan Africa. However, such approaches are frequently criticized for either not involving enough stakeholders or limiting the ...
- IFPRI BriefsEarlier briefs in this series make the case that there is added value for the agricultural and health sectors in working more closely together to address problems of human well-being that fall at the intersection of the two sectors. Yet the ...
- EventA policy panel discussion in conjunction with the IFPRI-University of Kiel research workshop, “Inside the black box: The political economy of local governments and their role in rural development” Abstract Decentralization, by “bringing ...
- Staff ProfileBlake D. Ratner is an environmental sociologist whose research focuses on natural resource governance, conflict, and cooperation from local to regional scales. Blake recently assumed the new role of Program Leader, Governance, at the WorldFish ...
- Project Papers and NotesThis paper seeks to identify the factors which are responsible for successful management of natural resources when communities are given opportunities to manage those resources. Applying the social capital framework, it analyzes empirical data ...
- Staff ProfileCatherine Ragasa received her PhD in Agricultural Economics from Michigan State University in 2008 and holds a Masters in Economics from University of the Philippines-School of Economics. More about Catherine Ragasa in Google Scholar Prior ...
- Discussion PapersCommon-pool resource management is a critical element in the interlocked challenges of food security, nutrition, poverty reduction, and environmental sustainability. This paper examines strategic policy choices and governance challenges facing ...
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- Discussion PapersDecentralization has the potential to improve the accountability of government and lead to a more efficient provision of public services. However, accountability requires broad groups of people to participate in local government. Thus, voter ...
- Project Papers and NotesDecentralized approaches to development are gaining increasing prominence. Land tenure reform policy has been affected by many different types of decentralization. However, the literature on land tenure reform rarely explicitly addressed the ...
- DivisionTo overcome poverty, hunger, environmental degradation, unemployment and human diseases, many developing countries will need to achieve faster and more sustained pro-poor economic growth. Good governance plays an essential role in reaching these ...
- Discussion PapersThis paper analyzes the role of social cohesion in economic and institutional development and, broadly, the creation of welfare in Latin America. The paper defines the concept of social cohesion with reference to the notions of social capital and ...
- Discussion PapersAnalyses of how coveted central-government resources in Africa are shared have shown widespread patronage, ethnic cronyism, and pork-barrel politics. While some governments have attempted to rectify the situation by establishing revenue-sharing ...
- Discussion Papers“Even though both “good governance” and “pro-poor growth” have become important concepts in development thinking and practice, studies that assess to which extent and how good governance contributes to pro-poor ...
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- Staff ProfileEphraim Nkonya, a senior research fellow, conducts research on land management and natural resources in sub-Saharan countries and central Asia. Ephraim, a citizen of Tanzania, earned a B.S. in agriculture from Sokoine University of Agriculture ...
- Discussion PapersTraditional authorities are powerful leaders alongside the state in Ghana. The chieftaincy has been resilient to “modernization”—maintaining land rights, allegiance from citizens, and influence in rural communities. Nonetheless, there are few ...
- NewsGlobal crises, such as the 2007- 2008 spike in food prices, tend to impact each location in a unique way. In Yemen, the triple global crisis in food, fuel, and financial markets has underscored its precarious food supply from abroad and its ...
- Staff ProfileFutoshi Yamauchi joined IFPRI in 2002, after working as a lecturer at the Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University and as an associate professor at the International Graduate School of Social Sciences, Yokohama National University. In ...
- Discussion PapersThis paper seeks to contribute to the literature on village governance and local public goods provision. Using data from 144 village-level governments in India’s Tamil Nadu state, we examine whether the gender and caste of village ...
- NewsIn the past five years, Ghana has experienced fairly high levels of poverty-reducing growth, and the country has set 2015 as a target date to achieve middle-income status. The Ghana Strategy Support Program (GSSP) at IFPRI works to supply ...
- Discussion PapersSer capaz de responder y reaccionar ante las demandas de los productores no implica necesariamente que se generen las mejores soluciones técnicas. Generar innovaciones adecuadas requiere de la participación de muchos: líderes y otros productores, ...
- IFPRI BriefsLand is still among the most important assets of the rural population in the developing world. Land resources are governed by a variety of tenure systems based on statutory, customary, or religious law. At the same time, many national, ...
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- Discussion PapersThis paper estimates hedonic models of rental prices to investigate household preferences regarding water services in rural Guatemala. Estimated values for water services are compared across municipal, private, and community-managed water ...
- Discussion PapersLarge-scale social safety net programs such as India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) are difficult to implement due to governance challenges related to elite capture, leakages, and corruption. The ability to identify how the ...
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- ArchiveCONTENTS: •Can local government work for the poor? •Focus on West and Central Africa Intensifies •Linking South Asia’s Farms to High-Value Food Markets •Commentary—Focus on the World’s Poor and Hungry Left Behind •Interview with Achim Steiner, ...
- ArchiveCONTENTS: •Healthy agriculture for healthy people •Davos Report: Modest Progress Made on MDGs •Panacea or Not, ICTs Can Play a Significant Role for the Rural Poor •Touring IFPRI’s Country and Regional Support Programs •Remembering Hans ...
- ArchiveCONTENTS: •How Will Agriculture Adapt to a Shifting Climate? •Reflections from the Development Community •Global Hunger Index: A Focus on Conflict and AIDS •Using Household Expenditure Surveys to Measure Food Insecurity •Income Diversification, ...
- NewsAgricultural development and poverty reduction depend on the effective delivery of public services to farmers and the rural poor. However, the efficient and regular delivery of public services to the poor in rural areas is hindered by ...
- 2020 FocusWhy has eradicating hunger and poverty proved difficult despite its being a declared goal of the international development community for more than half a century? Why has the number of hungry people increased in recent years? Why is poverty ...
- Project Papers and NotesThe forest management strategy of Nepal is based on people’s participation, which is known as community forestry. This approach was formally introduced in 1978 to encourage active participation of local people in forest management ...
- Discussion PapersDecentralization reforms have been the overwhelming response to failures in the targeting of public resources by the central state in developing countries. The policy debate on decentralization typically revolves around several a priori ...
- Discussion PapersThis paper provides an assessment of information flows and the acquisition of knowledge in water governance of the Upper East Region, Ghana. These flows are patchy, often parallel, disconnected or slow. In many cases a great deal of information ...
- Discussion Papers“La innovación es la introducción exitosa de nuevos conocimientos y tecnologías en los procesos social y productivo. Las formas convencionales de fomentar la innovación en la agricultura y la industria alimentaria en los países en ...
- Discussion PapersTraditional approaches to innovation systems policymaking and governance often focus exclusively on the central provision of services, regulations, fiscal measures, and subsidies. This study, however, considers that innovation systems ...
- EventOrganized by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, DC and the University of Kiel (EU-E-VAL Project), Kiel, Germany Background and objectives More Information Workshop Blog Panel Discussion The last decades have ...
- Staff ProfileKatrina is a post-doctoral fellow with the Development Strategy and Governance Division of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (JPAL) South Asia. She is an applied microeconomist ...
- Discussion PapersThis paper examines how political institutions and local power structures interact with and influence local public resource allocation in the Indian state of Karnataka. We use data from 80 village councils and 225 villages to examine how this ...
- Discussion PapersDespite 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 ...
- Staff ProfileMargaret McMillan is an associate professor of economics at Tufts University. She has published widely in the areas of international trade and investment focusing primarily on developing countries. Understanding the distributional consequences of ...
- Discussion PapersThis study explores the differences between mountain and non-mountain countries in food security and its determinants. Econometric analysis shows that mountain regions are likely to have lower food security. The findings suggest that people in ...
- NewsHistorically, many Sub-Saharan African countries have seen their fertilizer subsidy programs waylaid by administrative weaknesses and corruption. Donors and development partners now promote a simpler subsidy process that works through the ...
- 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 PapersMany developing countries are currently in the process of designing regulatory systems that should allow them to use genetically modified organisms (GMOs) for agricultural development, while also managing the food safety and environmental risks ...
- Staff ProfileSayon Deb is a Senior Research Assistant in the Development Strategy and Governance Division. Sayon works for Margaret McMillan, studying land governance and policy in Western Africa as part of the Global Partnership in Land ...
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- IFPRI BriefsCapacity development is essential to participatory initiatives, especially given the recent trend toward decentralized governance in many developing countries. Communities need both the wherewithal to carry out development activities themselves, ...
- Staff ProfileDr. Babu was educated at Agricultural Universities in Tamil Nadu, India (B.S. Agriculture; M.S. Agriculture) and at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa (M.S. Economics and PhD Economics). Before joining IFPRI in 1992 as a Research Fellow, Dr. Babu ...
- EventAbstract This presentation features an innovative initiative to improve governance for agricultural and allied development. The initiative, which is currently being piloted in the Rwenzori Region of Western Uganda, combines a set of coordinated ...
- Staff ProfileTewodaj Mogues is a Research Fellow in IFPRI. She joined the DSG division in February 2005, and undertakes research on public investment for poverty reduction, local public finance and decentralisation, social capital and household assets, and ...
- Discussion PapersIn 1993, India introduced quota-based political reservations for women in rural areas with the objective to promote gender equality in human development by making rural service provision and local governance inclusive and responsive to the needs ...
- Books and MonographsAgricultural policy reform is one of the major challenges facing India today. Such reform is required in order to reduce poverty through faster agricultural growth and to promote more sustainable use of natural resources while ensuring food ...
- EventAbstract The seminar will analyze the political economy of two fields of agricultural policy in India: fertilizer supply and electricity supply for groundwater irrigation. Subsidizing fertilizer and electricity supply has been an important ...
- Discussion PapersThis paper presents an innovative participatory method to visualize, discuss and analyze the power of different actors in a given governance field. The Power Mapping Tool was first used to analyze the governance effects of Community-Based Natural ...
- NewsMonday’s news of Elinor Ostrom winning the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences is still reverberating, causing much excitement. In awarding the prize, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences noted it is “for her analysis of economic ...
- Discussion PapersBelieving that complex problems call for complex solutions and that stakeholders should have a say in policies that concern them, policymakers have strongly promoted the development of forums and organizations made up of many stakeholders to ...
- Discussion PapersWe examine the effect of trade protection rates on evasion in three African countries: Kenya, Mauritius, and Nigeria. In capturing the effect of trade protection on tariff evasion, we use a much improved measure of trade protection from MacMAP ...
- Discussion PapersIn this paper we present the findings of a qualitative investigation into some dimensions and implications of policy volatility in the realms of natural resource (NR) governance and devolution in contemporary Sudan, with particular reference to ...
- Books and MonographsImproving nutrition in developing nations is likely to require a multisectoral approach that involves a variety of ministries and organizations addressing particular aspects of the problem. Despite the promise of such multisectoral efforts, ...
- Staff ProfileA citizen of China, Zhang earned B.S. in mathematics from Nankai University, China; M.S. in economics from Tianjin University of Economics and Finance, China; and M.S. and Ph.D. in applied economics and management from Cornell University in ...
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