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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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Elodie Becquey

Elodie Becquey is a Senior Research Fellow in the Nutrition, Diets, and Health Unit, based in IFPRI’s West and Central Africa office in Senegal. She has over 15 years of research experience in diet, nutrition, and food security in Africa, including countries such as Burkina Faso, Chad, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, and Tanzania.

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Are poor people conditionally cooperative? Contrasting evidence from a field-adapted contributions game

2025Allen IV, James; Karachiwalla, Naureen; Rakshit, Deboleena
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Are poor people conditionally cooperative? Contrasting evidence from a field-adapted contributions game

We study conditional cooperation using a field-adapted conditional contributions game in rural Mozambique, eliciting community members’ willingness to contribute to a new public program conditional on how many others contribute. While past studies suggest most people are conditional cooperators (contributing more as others do), most of our sample (57%) are undefined by standard classifications. Instead, our sample’s most common types are largely absent from the literature: counter conditional cooperators (contributing less as others do) and v-shaped cooperators, both for monetary donations (30% and 19%) and volunteering (35% and 12%). Our findings motivate future research in both non-laboratory and low-income settings.

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2025

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Allen IV, James; Karachiwalla, Naureen; Rakshit, Deboleena

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Allen IV, James; Karachiwalla, Naureen; and Rakshit, Deboleena. 2025. Are poor people conditionally cooperative? Contrasting evidence from a field-adapted contributions game. IFPRI Discussion Paper 2364. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/176850

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Mozambique

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Africa; Eastern Africa; Southern Africa; Cooperation; Low Income Groups; Poverty; School Feeding

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English

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Open Access

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Pathways for food and land use systems to contribute to global biodiversity targets

2022Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land-Use, and Energy Consortium
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Pathways for food and land use systems to contribute to global biodiversity targets

Biodiversity flourishes in areas where natural processes, such as plant and animal reproduction and dispersion, take place without human interruption. At present, we estimate that such land where natural processes predominate (LNPP) covers 56% of terrestrial land. Here, the evolution of global biodiversity is modelled, as indicated by LNPP, for two scenarios for food and land-use systems change to 2050: a “Current Trends” pathway, based on current policies and historical trends, and a “Sustainable” pathway, depicting ambitious assumptions aimed at sustainable development. The 15% expansion target proposed by the Convention for Biological Diversity (CBD) is missed under both pathways, yet the shortfall is much smaller when ambitious actions are taken. The area of LNPP expands by 14% between 2010 and 2050 in the Sustainable pathway compared to only 2% under Current Trends. Increases in LNPP would be achieved while also improving global food security and climate mitigation outcomes. While restoration would enable the area of LNPP to expand, existing LNPP including mature forest would continue to disappear. Shifting diets, increasing crop and livestock productivity, and limiting agricultural land expansion, were the strongest drivers of positive change in global biodiversity. Implementing these reforms in multiple countries would help put us on track to achieve global biodiversity, food security and climate mitigation goals by 2050.

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2022

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Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land-Use, and Energy Consortium

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FABLE (2022) Pathways for food and land use systems to contribute to global biodiversity targets. FABLE Policy Brief. Montpellier/Paris (France): Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT; Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN). 19 p.

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Biodiversity; Food Systems; Land Use; Climate Change; Nutrition; Crop Production; Policies; Biodiversidad; Sistemas Alimentarios; Utilización De La Tierra; Foods; Modelling; Systems; Ecosystems

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English

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Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

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Water, Land and Ecosystems

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Opinion Piece

Agricultura, seguridad alimentaria, desarrollo y proteccion ambiental: Un futuro para Honduraas basado en la ciencia, tecnologia e innovacion

2021Falck-Zepeda, José B.; Nin-Pratt, Alejandro; Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio
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Agricultura, seguridad alimentaria, desarrollo y proteccion ambiental: Un futuro para Honduraas basado en la ciencia, tecnologia e innovacion

Los sistemas agrícolas han jugado un papel crítico en la seguridad alimentaria de la humanidad. A lo largo de la historia, se han logrado avances significativos en la seguridad alimentaria, incluyendo reducir la proporción de personas que padecen de hambre, la desnutrición, y la prevalencia en los retrasos en el crecimiento infantil. Sin embargo, hay evidencia que estos logros están revirtiendo debido a desaceleraciones en la producción y la productividad agrícola, y las interacciones con las crisis existenciales de salud, sostenibilidad y gobernanza.

Year published

2021

Authors

Falck-Zepeda, José B.; Nin-Pratt, Alejandro; Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio

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Falck-Zepeda, José Benjamin. 2021. Agricultura, seguridad alimentaria, desarrollo y proteccion ambiental: Un futuro para Honduraas basado en la ciencia, tecnologia e innovacion. Colección del Bicentenario 24. https://www.undp.org/sites/g/files/zskgke326/files/2022-06/pnud-hn-coleccion-bicentenario-vision-prospectiva-ensayo-24-2021.pdf

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Honduras

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Central America; Innovation; Imports; Exports; Values; Policies; Covid-19; Technology; Maize; Sciences; Agriculture; Crop Production; Harvesting; Food Security; Climate Change

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Spanish

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Open Access

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Policies, Institutions, and Markets

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Opinion Piece

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COVID-19 school closures and adolescent mental health: Evidence from Mozambique
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COVID-19 school closures and adolescent mental health: Evidence from Mozambique

By Jessica Leight and Naureen Karachiwalla

How 7th graders contend with pandemic stresses.