This food policy report is a response to growing concerns about the impacts of climate change on Latin American economies, agriculture, and people. It assesses both local and global effects of changing agricultural yields on the economy, subnational re…
The role of agricultural technologies
IFPRI's flagship report examines the major food policy issues, developments, and decisions of 2012. By putting into perspective the year's food policy successes and disappointments, it suggests how to move forward those policies that improve the food s…
This training guide introduces development practitioners, policy analysts, and students to social accounting matrices (SAMs) and their use in policy analysis. There are already a number of books that explain the System of National Accounts and SAM mult…
IMPACT – the International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade –was developed at IFPRI at the beginning of the 1990s, upon the realization that there was a lack of long-term vision and consensus among policy makers and resea…
危机促成改革 革命胜利后的二十几年，激进 主义一直占上风，过早废除土地私 有，土地疏远农民，到“文化大革 命”结束时，中国经济已处于相当 困难的境地，引发农业危机。人口 增长，食品短缺。人均粮食始终只 有300多公斤。8亿农民中，贫困人 口占2. 5亿。整个国家粮食不能自 给，要大量进口。 1 9 7 8年，以中共十一届三中 全会为转折点，重新确立了解放思 想、实事求是的思想路线，承认实 践是检验真理的惟一标准这个唯物 主义哲学的命题，承认社会主义就 是发展生产力，走向共同富裕。因 而废除阶级斗争为纲方针，党的工 作中心转向现…
For more than 20 years after the victory of the Chinese Revolution, radicalism was ascendant and private ownership of land was illegal. The peasantry became estranged from the land, so that when the Cultural Revolution ended, China’s economy had been…