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With research staff from more than 60 countries, and offices across the globe, IFPRI provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition in developing countries.

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Ruth Meinzen-Dick

Ruth Meinzen-Dick is a Senior Research Fellow in the Natural Resources and Resilience Unit. She has extensive transdisciplinary research experience in using qualitative and quantitative research methods. Her work focuses on two broad (and sometimes interrelated) areas: how institutions affect how people manage natural resources, and the role of gender in development processes. 

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Factors associated with older persons’ physical health in rural Uganda

2019Maniragaba, Fred; Nzabona, Abel; Asiimwe, John Bosco; Bizimungu, Emmanuel; Mushomi, John; Ntozi, James; Kwagala, Betty
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Factors associated with older persons’ physical health in rural Uganda

The proportion of older persons in developing countries is increasing with no clear evidence of improvement in physical health. The aim of this paper was to examine the factors associated with older persons’ physical health in rural Uganda. This paper is based on a cross-sectional study of 912 older persons age 60 years and older across four major regions of Uganda. The study was conceptualized basing on World Health Organization quality of life BREF (WHOQOL-BREF). Analysis was done at three levels, that is, frequency distributions were generated to describe background characteristics of respondents and cross-tabulations were done to determine associations between dependent and each of the independent variables. Ordinal logistic regression was used to determine the predictors of physical health.

Year published

2019

Authors

Maniragaba, Fred; Nzabona, Abel; Asiimwe, John Bosco; Bizimungu, Emmanuel; Mushomi, John; Ntozi, James; Kwagala, Betty

Citation

Maniragaba, Fred; Nzabona, Abel; Asiimwe, John Bosco; Bizimungu, Emmanuel; Mushomi, John; Ntozi, James; and Kwagala, Betty. 2019. Factors associated with older persons’ physical health in rural Uganda. PLoS ONE 14(1): e0209262. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0209262

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Uganda

Keywords

Eastern Africa; Africa; Sub-saharan Africa; Elderly; Health; Physical Activity; Assets

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English

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Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0209262 Source record

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Convening CGIAR Researchers to Build a Community of Practice on Weather-related Agricultural Insurance

2018Kramer, Berber
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Convening CGIAR Researchers to Build a Community of Practice on Weather-related Agricultural Insurance

With funding from the CGIAR research program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), the CCAFS Learning Platform for Agricultural Insurance participated as content partner and convened a group of CGIAR researchers with interest in agricultural insurance at the 14th International Microinsurance Conference (IMC) in Lusaka from November 6 – 8, 2018. Organized by the MunichRe Foundation in partnership with the Microinsurance Network (MiN) and the Microinsurance Technical Advisory Group of Zambia (TAG), the main conference brought together in Lusaka approximately 450 experts from around the world to discuss and identify ways of accelerating growth and economic viability in inclusive insurance for emerging markets. During this conference, the CCAFS Learning Platform for Agricultural Insurance, led by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and implemented in partnership with the CGIAR research program for Policies, Institutions and Markets (PIM), organized a series of networking and outreach events. The events were targeting the international insurance community, including policymakers, practitioners and CGIAR researchers with interest in research on weather-related agricultural insurance. Three events were organized. First, together with Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA), we held a matchmaking session linking researchers and insurance practitioners around key challenges in providing microinsurance. Second, CGIAR researchers met to coordinate research agendas and discuss strategies for evidence building and joint resource mobilization. Third, the CGIAR hosted a session to demonstrate the value of partnerships between the global insurance and agricultural research communities in addressing challenges to scaling agricultural insurance, with examples from CGIAR insurance initiatives.

Year published

2018

Authors

Kramer, Berber

Citation

Kramer B. 2018. Convening CGIAR Researchers to Build a Community of Practice on Weather-related Agricultural Insurance. CCAFS Workshop Report. Wageningen, Netherlands: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS).

Keywords

Agricultural Research; Agricultural Insurance; Agriculture; Food Security; Weather; Climate Change

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English

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Open AccessCC-BY-NC-ND-3.0

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Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

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Report