- Technical GuidesThe purpose of this manual is to contribute to and facilitate the use of computable general equilibrium (CGE) models in the analysis of issues related to food policy in developing countries. The volume includes a detailed presentation of a static ...
- Technical GuidesBiofortified staple crops - food crops bred for higher micronutrient content - are expected to reduce micronutrient deficiency and its accompanying adverse health outcomes. Health benefits can be measured and expressed in terms of the number of ...
- 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 ...
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- Technical GuidesThis third book in the series, Classification and Regression Trees, CART (TM) : A User Manual for Identifying Indicators of Vulnerability to Famine and Chronic Food Insecurity, by Yisehac Yohannes and Patrick Webb, is a manual outlining how to ...
- Technical GuidesHousehold food security (HFS) represents the guiding principle underlying many rural development projects. It plays an important role in the targeting of projects, the selection of appropriate interventions, and the monitoring and evaluation of ...
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- Technical GuidesUnlike the more technical issues covered in other guides, this topic is one that is unlikely to be familiar to many development project staff. For this reason, throughout this guide, reference is made to the Rural Development Plan of the Western ...
- Technical GuidesIn recent years, many development agencies have made intensive efforts to improve their efficiency and increase their impact on rural poverty. At the heart of this new strategic management process is the measurement of performance. With Household ...
- Technical GuidesExercises in general equilibrium modeling using GAMS and key to exercises in CGE modeling using GAMSThis easy-to-use manual presents exercises related to computable general equilibrium (CGE) models, which represent one type of economywide model used in policy analysis. This type of model explicitly recognizes that changes affecting one part of ...
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- 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 ...
- Technical GuidesVitamin A deficiency is a serious public health problem affecting 140 million children and 20 million pregnant women annually in many developing nations worldwide. Vitamin A deficiency can result in anemia, reduced resistance to infection, ...
- Technical GuidesCarotenoid analysis is inherently difficult and error prone. Despite substantial improvements and refinements in the methods for analyzing these fascinating but complicated compounds, discrepancies in analytical data can still be perceived in the ...
- Technical GuidesThis review is organized as follows. First, the characteristics of the digestion and absorption and the metabolism of vitamin A and carotenoids are briefly discussed in Sections 2 and 3, respectively. The numerous factors that affect carotenoid ...
- Technical GuidesBioavailable iron, vitamin A, and zinc are mainly provided in the human diet by animal source foods. In the developing world, where poorer individuals consume predominantly plant-based diets, deficiencies of these micronutrients are common and ...
- Technical GuidesThe International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade (IMPACT) was developed at IFPRI at the beginning of the 1990s to address a lack of long-term vision and consensus among policy-makers and researchers about the ...
- Technical GuidesThis easy-to-use manual presents exercises related to computable general equilibrium (CGE) models, which represent one type of economywide model used in policy analysis. This type of model explicitly recognizes that changes affecting one part of ...
- Technical GuidesFood is one of the most basic needs for human survival. Access to it is a basic human right. Moreover, the pursuit of the Millennium Development Goal to cut hunger requires a sound understanding of the related food security issues. For these ...
- Technical GuidesThis guide outlines methodologies that will assist practitioners to improve the nutrition impact of development activities. The methodologies described here are jointly referred to as nutritional assessment. The guide begins by explaining what is ...
- Technical GuidesThe International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), like many development practitioners, often finds that insufficient information constrains its research efforts with partner organizations in developing countries. Solid data are often ...
- Technical GuidesEste libro, basado en la experiencia de campo del IFPRI y en la interacción con diversas organizaciones asociadas, está dirigido a ayudar a los practicantes del desarrollo a superar estas restricciones. La audiencia principal es la ...
- Technical GuidesThis introductory guide provides a brief introduction to the concept of food security. (An introduction to nutrition issues is found in Technical Guide #5.) It outlines the links between the types of projects often designed and their impact on ...
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- Technical Guides“This … is a manual outlining how to conduct some fairly basic econometric tests and procedures to determine the robustness of the estimated parameters upon which policy decisions are frequently based. …[It] address[es] a number ...
- Technical GuidesThis guide outlines operational methodologies that will improve the targeting of rural development projects. It begins by considering the principles underlying targeting and then considers the practice of targeting.
- Technical GuidesEpi Map, a powerful new mapping software program, is now available to the public from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO). The program can be used to identify spatial variation in ...
- Technical GuidesWhile gender equality is a basic human right, and closing the gender gap is key to achieving many development objectives, development practitioners and advocates concerned with achieving gender equality are often constrained by the lack of ...