- General InformationThe seed industry is crucial to agricultural development. Seed was perhaps the most important form in which the technology of the green revolution was transferred to farmers. As the new biotechnology moves from the laboratory to the field and ...
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- General InformationEconomic growth in developing countries has generally slowed since the early 1980s. In many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, per capita income has even declined. External developments have had an adverse effect, as the slowdown in world economic ...
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- General Information“IFPRI’s food gap studies … aimed at defining the general magnitude, composition, and dynamics of the Third World food problem, have primarily used agricultural data furnished by …( FAO)”—P. vii.
- General InformationCare is the provision in the household and the community of time, attention and support to meet the physical, mental, and social needs of the growing child and other household members. The significance of care has been best articulated in the ...
- General InformationThe results of the India State Hunger Index 2008 highlight the continued overall severity of the hunger situation in India, while revealing the variation in hunger across states within India. It is indeed alarming that not a single state in India ...
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- General InformationThis paper deals with Tanzania’s policy on maize production and marketing in recent years, focusing on its panterritorial pricing policy of setting a uniform price for the country, regardless of location or transport costs. After having ...
- General InformationRapid expansion of employment in low-income countries is one of the biggest challenges of development. The growth in labor supply in developing countries will remain large for a long time to come. Incomes of the poor in rural areas will depend ...
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- General InformationThese collected papers represent part of the output from an intensive study conducted between September 1984 and March 1985 in Bangladesh and Washington, D.C. The study was a collaborative effort commissioned by the Bangladesh Ministry of ...
- General InformationPapers prepared by reseachers at the International Food Policy Research Institute and discussed with colleagues in Ibadan, Nigeria, February 9-11, 1981
- General Information“Since the break-up of the Soviet Union, the countries of the Central Asia region have undertaken varying levels of policy reforms in their food, agricultural, and natural resources sectors. Despite these reforms, available evidence ...
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- General InformationDer Welthunger-Index 2008 (WHI) zeigt, dass die Welt seit 1990 langsame Fortschritte bei der Verbesserung der Ernährungssicherheit gemacht hat, wobei sich je nach Region und Land erhebliche Unterschiede ergeben. In den fast zwei Jahrzehnten seit ...
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- General InformationReport of an international consultation—The Research Community’s Response to Avian Influenza, with Special Reference to the Needs of Developing Countries, held 14-16 June 2006 in Nairobi, Kenya—organised by the International ...
- General InformationThis paper reports on two methods for identifying alternative indicators of chronic and acute food insecurity for use in targeting food aid. Alternative indicators are needed because many of the “benchmark” or “gold standard” indicators (such as ...
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- General InformationThe product of a conference leading up to the 2020 Vision initiative, Population and Food in the Early Twenty-First Century offers technical background information on the issues of food and hunger in the coming decades. Here food, agriculture, ...
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- General Information“As part of its 2020 Vision for Food, Agriculture, and the Environment Initiative, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) has articulated a vision of what the world should look like in 2020: it should be a world free from ...
- General InformationVulnerable populations are minimally resilient to shocks, whether caused by humans or natural disasters. Emerging threats and new trends—such as climate change, population growth, aging societies, urbanization, infectious as well as ...
- General InformationIt’s a bitter reality that in a world that is growing closer all the time, hunger, undernutrition, and abject poverty are still rife. The poorest of the poor lack a sufficiently influential voice to make their fundamental concerns be heard. It’s ...
- General InformationThe Global Hunger Index is based on three equally weighted indicators: the proportion of undernourished as a percentage of the population (reflecting the share of the population with insufficient dietary energy intake); the prevalence of ...
- General Information2011 Global Hunger Index now available Embeddable Map (Put this map on your website) The 2008 Global Hunger Index (GHI) shows that the world has made slow progress in reducing food insecurity since 1990, with dramatic differences among ...
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- General InformationThe pattern of this paper is as follows. First, shifts in lending patterns between the 1970s and the 1980s are reviewed and it is asked if these shifts are likely to continue or be reversed in the 1990s. Possible changes in ARD lending ...
- General InformationCassava is a relatively neglected tropical root crop. Important in the economy of poor households, cassava is one of the major sources of subsistence and cash income to farmers in agroclimatically disadvantaged regions. It is a major staple food ...
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