- Books and MonographsForeword by John W. Mellor Over the past several years the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) has undertaken research on the production, consumption, and nutrition effects of agricultural commercialization in Gambia, ...
- Books and MonographsExecutive Summary Relationship Between Agriculture and the Millennium Development Goals In 2000 the member states of the United Nations adopted the Millennium Declaration as a renewed commitment to human development. The Declaration includes ...
- Books and MonographsThis book brings together recent evidence on HIV/AIDS impacts on rural households, livelihoods, and agricultural practice in sub-Saharan Africa. There is particular emphasis on the role of women in affected households. The book is unique in ...
- Books and MonographsPortuguese translation of Food Policy Analysis. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press for the World Bank, 1983. Translated into Portuguese by Ana Leao and Jorge Leao, Analise de Politica Alimentar (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins ...
- Books and MonographsThis report reviews current knowledge of the effects of climate change on hunger. It summarizes knowledge from global studies completed and provides an overview of actions that can be taken to address the challenge. We believe that unless ...
- Books and MonographsEdited by Esther Mwangi, Helen Markelova, and Ruth Meinzen-Dick To improve their well-being, the poor in developing countries have used both collective action through formal and informal groups and property rights to natural resources. Collective ...
- Books and MonographsConditional cash transfer programs (CCTs)—cash grants to poor families that are conditional on their participation in education, health, and nutrition services—have become a vital part of poverty reduction strategies in many countries, ...
- Books and MonographsHighly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) under current conditions poses a major risk to human and animal health. Efforts to contain the disease are therefore in national and global interest. As the most widely practiced control methods for ...
- Books and MonographsCONTENTS: Introduction / Objectives of the Report and of Compensation / Background and Rationale for Assessing Good Practices / Context in Which Compensation Occurs / Approach to Ascertaining Good Practice / Deciding Who to Compensate: The ...
- Books and MonographsThe perception of Ethiopia projected in the media is often one of chronic poverty and hunger, but this bleak assessment does not accurately reflect most of the country today. Ethiopia encompasses a wide variety of agroecologies and peoples. Its ...
- Books and MonographsSection I: Food security policy analysis — 1. Introduction to food security: concepts and measurement — 2. Implications of technological change, post-harvest technology and technology adoption for improved food security - application ...
- Books and MonographsHow important is foreign aid in fostering economic growth in developing countries? Does it help recipient countries, hurt them, or have little effect either way? Foreign Aid Allocation, Governance, and Economic Growth investigates this issue by ...
- Books and MonographsIn developing countries across Asia, food marketing parastatals have played an important role in agricultural policy, especially with regard to government efforts to stabilize food prices. Three broad market failures constitute the primary ...
- Books and MonographsThis volume examines the various drivers of global change, including climate change, and the use of agricultural knowledge, science, and technology, as well as the outcomes of global change processes, including impacts on water quality and human ...
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- Books and MonographsChallenges facing African agriculture — The role of impact assessment in evaluating agricultural investments in Eastern and Southern Africa — Economics of wheat research in Kenya — Impact of sorghum research and development in ...
- Books and MonographsThe variety of views about ICTs reveals that their role in development is unclear, especially without convincing evidence of their impact-and little research has been conducted on the direct and indirect links between ICTs and poverty reduction. ...
- Books and MonographsEsta obra ofrece una importante visión clarificadora del papel que deben tener la investigación y el desarrollo agropecuario en América Latina y el Caribe, e introduce un marco analítico para la evaluación de acciones colectivas de financiamiento ...
- Books and MonographsDespite the Green Revolution’s dramatic success in increasing South Asia’s agricultural production, almost one quarter of the region’s population remains undernourished. The 2007–08 food price spike has further aggravated this problem. In ...
- Books and MonographsThe Central Asian republics – Kazakhstan, the Krygyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan – are transitioning from centrally planned economies to market-oriented systems. This volume addresses the process and policy reforms these ...
- Books and MonographsWhereas there is plenty of work looking at macroeconomic effect of public spending on growth and poverty in Africa as well as studies of the impact of spending or investment in one economic sector on outcomes in that sector or on broader welfare ...
- Books and MonographsPublic Expenditures, Growth, and Poverty assesses the efficacy of poverty reduction programs in Latin America, Africa, and Asia by synthesizing studies conducted by the International Food Policy Research Institute over the past ten years. ...
- Books and MonographsSub—Saharan Africa is one of the poorest regions of the world. Because most Africans work in agriculture, escaping such dire poverty depends on increased agricultural productivity to raise rural incomes, lower food prices, and stimulate growth in ...
- Books and MonographsTargeting of Transfers in Developing Countries: Review of Lessons and Experience reviews the lessons learned from 122 antipoverty interventions in 47 transition and developing countries to quantify outcomes and their determinants and to inform ...
- Books and MonographsAbout this Book China and India are the most extraordinary economic success stories of the developing world. Both nations’ economies have grown dramatically over the past few decades, elevating them from two of the world’s ...
- Books and MonographsChina and India are the most extraordinary economic success stories of the developing world. Both nations’ economies have grown dramatically over the past few decades, elevating them from two of the world’s poorest countries into ...
- Books and MonographsMajor changes have been occurring almost unnoticed in staple value chains in Asia. The Quiet Revolution in Staple Food Value Chains documents and explains the transformation of value chains moving rice and potatoes between the farm gate and the ...
- Books and MonographsWhen the World Trade Organization (WTO) was created in 1995, its members committed themselves to a set of disciplines for domestic support, market access, and export competition for agriculture. The Agreement on Agriculture laid the way for the ...
- Books and MonographsThe World Trade Organization’s Doha Round of trade talks has been plagued by a lack of concrete progress toward establishing a fair and harmonious agricultural trading system. Because the results of the Doha Round could have far-reaching ...