- IFPRI BriefsConverting agriculture to produce energy as well as food has become an important and well-funded global research goal as petroleum reserves fall and fuel prices rise. But the use of crop biomass-both grain and other plant parts-as a raw material ...
- Technical GuidesPublic-private partnerships are a new way of carrying out research and development (R&D) in Latin America’s agricultural sector. These partnerships spur innovation for agricultural development and have various advantages over other ...
- Discussion PapersThe International Service for National Agricultural Research¾on its own from 2002 until 2003, and as a division of the International Food Policy Research Institute thereafter has studied 124 public-private partnerships in agriculture in nine ...
- Staff ProfileDavid J. Spielman, a U.S. national, joined the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in 2004, and is currently a research fellow based in Washington, DC. His research agenda covers a range of topics including agricultural science, ...
- IFPRI BriefsThe countries of Eastern and Central Africa are heavily dependent on agriculture, and seeds are a key input in agricultural production.Yet in each country in Eastern and Central Africa, the seed industry faces different laws, standards, and ...
- Discussion PapersMany African countries have moved into the production of non-traditional agricultural products, in an effort to diversify their exports and increase foreign currency earnings. However, in order to access developed country markets and urban ...
- Technical GuidesLas alianzas público-privadas constituyen una nueva forma de realizar investigaciones y representan el desarrollo en el sector agrícola/agroindustrial de América Latina. Existen suficientes ejemplos que comprueban que éstas se han convertido en ...
- 2020 FocusAbout 80 percent of the world population currently lives in countries that are either developed or developing. The other 20 percent lives in countries that are stagnant or falling behind. As a result, by the 2015 target date for the Millennium ...
- 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 ...
- ArchiveCONTENTS: •Can public and private sectors work together for the poor? •IFPRI Deepens Its Presence in South Asia •Merging East Africa’s small farmers with global markets •Farmer for a day: Zambian journalists learn cassava’s value in ...
- ArchiveCONTENTS: •When Disaster Strikes •IFPRI Perspective Presented at Davos •African Stakeholders Committed to Building Consensus on Biotechnology. •A Safety Net with Investments in Children. •Assisting China with Rural Development ...
- IFPRI BriefsThe development community is increasingly in agreement that providing adequate hard infrastructure (i.e., capital-intensive infrastructure such as rural telecommunications, electrification, and rural roads) is an important step in the process of ...
- IFPRI BriefsThe linkages between livestock and health are significant, particularly for the poor, whether as livestock raisers or as consumers of meat and milk, or even as users of the environment. The processes of livestock production and consumption bring ...
- Project Papers and NotesIn July 2008, the government of Ghana instituted a country-wide subsidy on 50Kg bags of four types of fertilizer in an effort to mitigate the effect of rising energy and food prices. Farmers received the subsidy in the form of fertilizer- and ...
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- In agricultural research and development (R&D), public-private partnerships are arrangements between public research organizations and universities and private sector entities such as agribusinesses, associations, and farmers’ ...
- Discussion PapersPublic-private partnerships have become increasingly important as an arrangement that serves to encourage innovation in agricultural production chains in Latin America. However, some observers have expressed concern that this institutional ...
- Discussion Papers“Public-private partnerships offer potentially important opportunities for pro-poor agricultural research in developing countries. Yet in the international agricultural research community-and with regard to the Consultative Group on ...
- IFPRI BriefsPublic-private partnerships (PPPs) in agricultural research and development are increasingly viewed as an effective means of conducting advanced research, developing new technologies, and deploying new products for the benefit of small-scale, ...
- Staff ProfilePurnima Menon is Research Fellow in IFPRI’s Poverty, Health and Nutrition Division, and is based at IFPRI’s Asia office in New Delhi, India. She conducts applied nutrition research in the South Asia region, with a focus on programs and policies ...
- 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 ...
- Discussion Papers“This study, which examines the role of public-private partnerships in international agricultural research, is intended to provide policymakers, research managers, and business decisionmakers with an understanding of how such partnerships ...
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- Project Papers and NotesMany developing countries have moved into the production of non-traditional agricultural products to diversify their exports and increase foreign currency earnings. Accessing developed country markets and urban domestic markets requires meeting ...
- Discussion PapersRising demands for quality and safety measures in high-value agriculture and livestock markets have necessitated the creation of increasingly complex supply chains to manage the flow of goods and information among channel actors. Public–private ...
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