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project paper
Qualitative fieldwork to identify CSA practices preferred by women farmers in India, Kenya, and Uganda
Promoting the adoption of climate-smart agricultural (CSA) practices is an important step toward enhancing farmer resilience to climate change.
This report explores the ways in which men and women in rural areas of four countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)—Kenya, Niger, Rwanda, and Uganda—experienced the COVID-19 pandemic and associated income losses, as well as their responses to the crisis
working paper
Livestock, capture fisheries, and aquaculture in Myanmar: Status and recent trends [in Burmese]
Traditional forms of livestock-rearing and fishing have been central components in rural livelihoods in Myanmar for centuries and remain important today.
Global food, fuel, and fertilizer prices have risen rapidly in recent months, driven in large part by the fallout from the ongoing war in Ukraine and the sanctions imposed on Russia.
journal article
Household livelihood diversification in rural Africa
Diversification is a common livelihood strategy for rural households in developing countries, with diversification being either a choice or necessity depending on individual household contexts.
journal article
Variability in agricultural productivity and rural household consumption inequality: Evidence from Nigeria and Uganda
Research in Nigeria & Uganda found increases in variability of agricultural productivity tend to decrease household consumption & contribute to consumption inequality.
working paper
Variability in agricultural productivity and rural household consumption inequality: Evidence from Nigeria and Uganda
This paper uses multiple rounds of household survey panel data to assess the distributional implications of variability in agricultural productivity in Nigeria and Uganda.
The IFPRI-CCAFS Gender and Climate Change Survey data were collected in four sites in Africa south of the Sahara in early 2013 as part of the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) under the project "Increa
project paper
Do shocks affect men’s and women’s assets differently? Evidence from Bangladesh and Uganda
Bangladesh and Uganda were chosen, first, based on the availability of data from both countries before and after the 2007/08 food-price crisis (allowing the establishment of precrisis baseline values) and, second, because the two countries exhibit ve
This dataset is a result of household surveys conducted in two major cotton producing districts, Lira and Kasese, in Uganda.
Agriculture has a crucial role to play in ending hunger and poverty in Africa, as it contributes approximately 35 percent of the continent’s gross domestic product while accounting for 70 percent of its labor force.
brief
Synopsis of Socioeconomic considerations in biosafety descisionmaking: Methods and implementation
The use of genetically modified (GM) crops has increased over the years since the United States, Argentina, Canada, Australia, and Mexico each commercialized one or more of certain GM crops—insect-resistant cotton and maize and herbicide-tolerant
book chapter
The cotton sector in Uganda
book chapter