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- Project Papers and NotesWhile most people can readily grasp malaria’s impact on smallholder productivity and development, the impact of agriculture development on the disease is less understood. Many agricultural practices increase the spread of malaria; in order ...
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- Staff ProfileAvinash Kishore joined IFPRI in September 2012 as a Post-Doctoral Fellow after completing his PhD in Public Policy from Harvard University. He obtained Masters in Public Affairs from Princeton University before joining the PhD program. Avinash ...
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- Discussion PapersIn an effort to increase the impact of extension on agricultural and pro-poor growth in developing countries, public-sector agricultural extension systems around the globe are implementing reforms that include demand-driven and decentralized ...
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- OnlineIFPRI’s Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office (ESARO), based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, works to strengthen IFPRI’s support to Africa’s programs and development actions in the eastern and southern ...
- Staff ProfileElias Zerfu, a citizen of Ethiopia, joined IFPRI in June 2005 as a senior training and research officer with IFPRI’s Learning and Capacity Strengthening program. He is based in Addis Ababa with the ISNAR division. Prior to joining IFPRI, he ...
- Discussion PapersIntroduction of private enterprises to deliver agricultural advisory services is seen as a strategy to increase the coverage and effectiveness of the pluralistic extension system in developing countries. The Indian national program of agriclinics ...
- Discussion PapersPublic 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 ...
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- Discussion PapersThis study is motivated by the idea that even though participatory monitoring and evaluation (PM&E) is widely accepted as a tool to manage development programs to be effective, its application is widely constrained by its high start-up ...
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- Staff ProfileGodfrey Bahiigwa joined IFPRI in September 2012 as a Research Fellow/ReSAKSS Coordinator for Africa. In December 2012, he was appointed Office Head of IFPRI’s Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office (ESARO) based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. ...
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- Discussion PapersEighty-three percent of the population of Ethiopia depends directly on agriculture for their livelihoods, while many others depend on agriculture-related cottage industries such as textiles, leather, and food oil processing. Agriculture ...
- BookletsIncreasing agricultural productivity in Africa calls for broader policy and strategic frameworks that encompass agro-industrial and agribusiness services along with farming. The agricultural system’s transformation will have the most impact when ...
- Food Policy ReportsIn the 21st century, agriculture remains fundamental to economic growth, poverty alleviation, improvement in rural livelihood, and environmental sustainability (World Bank 2007). Three-quarters of the world’s poor live in rural areas, ...
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- Discussion PapersThis descriptive study was undertaken in order to assess the status of extension services in Malawi 10 years after implementation of the pluralistic and demand-driven extension policy. The findings would help practitioners and policy makers in ...
- Discussion PapersImproving the long-term sustainability and resilience of smallholder agriculture in Africa is highly dependent on conserving or improving the quality of the natural resource. Conservation agriculture is conceived around more integrated and ...
- Discussion PapersDespite a wide range of reform initiatives in agricultural extension in India in the past decades, the coverage of, access to, and quality of information provided to marginalized and poor farmers is uneven. This paper aims to ascertain why ...
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- Discussion PapersStrong agricultural research and development (R&D) is crucial for improving agricultural productivity and efficiency, which in turn both lead to agricultural development, food security, and poverty reduction. However, several studies have ...
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- Discussion PapersIn the past decade, many information and communication technology (ICT) projects in Indian agriculture have emerged, either substituting or supporting extension services by providing farmers with access to agricultural information. ICTs have the ...
- Project Papers and NotesHealth issues are increasingly affecting household decisionmaking, farm labor, and agricultural productivity in developing countries. Similarly, certain agricultural development projects and practices that aid productivity (for example, the use ...
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Co-authored by David Laborde Debucquet and Sara Gustafson.
The Doha Development Agenda, the ...