In 2005, India passed the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA, “the Act”), a law guaranteeing all rural households 100 days of work at a minimum wage through the building of durable assets, which created one of the largest anti-poverty
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This policy note summarizes findings from an assessment of the impact of community-based monitoring and accountability forums – popularly known as barazas – implemented by the government of Uganda.
Our working paper, “The Effects of Income Fluctuations on Rural Health and Nutrition,” provides causal evidence on how the income fluctuations poor households confront across the globe influence health and nutrition outcomes across the life cycle.
How do perceptions of relative poverty affect women's empowerment? Evidence from Papua New Guinea
How do perceptions of one's relative economic status affect gender attitudes, including support for women's economic participation and their involvement in decision-making within their household and community?
In July 2016, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and partners launched a three-year evidence-based policy support project to analyze demand for and supply of agricultural extension services in Malawi and help design activitie
Increased capital use in agriculture, including mechanization, is con-sidered an integral process of agricultural transformation.
The agricultural sector in developing countries including those in South Asia, like Nepal, faces dual challenges of the persistent dominance of smallholder-based farming, and at the same time, rising labor costs due partly to growing non-farm sect
Vietnam has experienced rapid growth in agricultural mechani-zation lately; particularly in the use of tractors and combine-harvesters.
The roles of agroclimatic similarity and returns on scale in the demand for mechanization: Insights from Nigeria
Despite economic transformations and urbanization, declining shares of the workforce employed in the agricultural sector, and gradual growth of agricultural mechanization, production costs in the agricultural sector and food prices remain high in
There are more than 120 organizations and programs in Malawi working on agriculture that include extension service provision among their main activities.
Since 2014, Digital Green and the Government of Ethiopia have been piloting a project to introduce a community-centric video approach to agricultural extension provision.