Since the 1970s, federal policies promoting migration and encouraging agricultural development of large farms, logging, and ranching have led to the deforestation of vast areas of the Amazon rainforest.Though these policies have largely been repla
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Despite the importance of tropical moist forests for conserving biodiversity and storing carbon, forests continue to fall, because the private benefits of clearing land for agriculture far outweigh tangible economic gains from retaining forests.
Marked seasonal variability of both production- and consumption is characteristic of virtually all farming systems in the developing world.
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Land, trees, and women
This research report examines three questions that are central to IFPRI research: How do property-rights institutions affect efficiency and equity? How are resources allocated within households? Why does this matter from a policy perspective?
Poor rural households in developing countries lack adequate access to credit.
Barbier and Bergeron explore several hypotheses about the dynamics of natural resource management in the hillsides of La Lima and further explore the causes and consequences of the transition to vegetable production.
Since 1986, Tanzania, like many other countries, has experienced a remarkable political and economic transition.
Using a New Institutional Economics framework, this research report addresses a fundamental aspect of markets: how do buyers and sellers find each other and coordinate the transfer of goods?
Table of Contents: Tables, Figures, Foreword, Acknowledgments, and Summary; 1. Introduction; 2. Determinants of the Placement and Outreach of Group-Based Financial Institutions:A County-Level Analysis; 5.
This report combines a careful analysis of government policy and private foodgrain markets with a detailed survey of 757 households in rural Bangladesh in November and December 1998, about two months after the floodwaters receded.
Egypt's food subsidy system has been a mainstay of the government's long-term policy of promoting social equity and political stability.
IFPRI has long argued that spending on agricultural research constitutes a sound investment in poverty reduction and agricultural and economic growth, through improvements in productivity.
Many developing countries are in transition from a state-dominated to a more market-oriented economy.
Accra offers a compelling case study of the contemporary impact of urban life on the livelihoods, food security, and nutritional status of its people.
One in three pre-school children in the developing world is undernourished. As a consequence, their human rights are violated.
Market liberalization, though an important element in economic reforms in developing countries in the past two decades, has been accused of harming the poor through higher food prices, layoffs in formerly state-owned enterprises, and the erosion of s
India spends more money on agriculture each year than any other developing Asian country.
India’s investments in agricultural research, extension, and irrigation have made it one of the largest publicly funded systems in the world.
How much extra net income growth can be had in rural areas of Africa by increasing the spending power of local households?
Many studies have looked at the way resources are distributed to men, women, and especially to small children, but one age group within the family has been largely ignored: the adolescents.