Despite the reportedly rapid growth of mechanization, as well as its
unique history in economic and social systems, information on the patterns of agricultural mechanization growth in Vietnam has bee... Section: Discussion Papers
by Hiroyuki Takeshima | On 01 May 2018 This study proposes the use of partial least squares to determine the key parameters of the perpetual inventory method model of capital stock as a new approach to calculate research and development (R... Section: Discussion Papers
by Alejandro Nin Pratt | On 01 Apr 2018 Combining agricultural census data from Nepal from 2001 and 2011 with various spatial agroclimatic
data, we show that increase in yield potentials due to the introduction of high-yield technologies
... Section: Discussion Papers
by Hiroyuki Takeshima | On 30 Mar 2018 The importance of (early) parental investments in children’s cognitive and noncognitive outcomes is a
question of deep policy significance. However, because parental investments are arguably endogeno... Section: Discussion Papers
by Chih Ming Tan | On 01 Feb 2018 Cambodia’s agriculture sector remains the backbone of the country’s economy. Most of Cambodia’s
people live in rural areas and rely heavily on agriculture for their livelihoods. In recent decades, th... Section: Discussion Papers
by Sam Oeurn Ke | On 01 Jan 2018 The
2018 Global Food Policy Report
reviews major food policy developments and events from the past year.
Leading researchers, policy makers, and practitioners examine what happened in food polic... Section: Reports
by IFPRI International Food Policy Research Institute | On 01 Jan 2018 This study was conducted to understand the evolution of agricultural mechanization in Nepal, specifically
its determinants on both the demand and supply sides, as well as impacts on agricultural prod... Section: Discussion Papers
by Hiroyuki Takeshima | On 01 Jul 2017 Many poverty alleviation programs aiming to enhance nutrition include behavior change
communication (BCC). This study uses a field experiment in Bangladesh to assess the
impacts of BCC, focusing on... Section: Discussion Papers
by Berber Kramer | On 01 Jul 2017 The paper uses a food systems approach to analyze the bidirectional relationships between climate change and food and nutrition along the entire food value chain. It then identifies adaptation and mit... Section: Discussion Papers
by Jessica Fanzo | On 01 May 2017 Despite increases in women’s employment, significant gender disparity exists in the time men and women spend on household and care work. Understanding how social expectations govern gender roles and c... Section: Discussion Papers
by Greg Seymour | On 01 Dec 2016 Much empirical research has shown that individuals’ decisions to adopt a new technology are the result of learning–both through personal experimentation through observing the experimentation of others... Section: Discussion Papers
by Jared Gars | On 01 Dec 2016 Rising prices and declining consumption of pulses cause concern in terms of both nutrition and food
inflation in India. This paper outlines policy strategies to increase the availability of pulses at... Section: Discussion Papers
by P.K. Joshi | On 01 Sep 2016 It is conventional wisdom in the
economic development literature that there is a significant underinvestment in agricultural R&D in
developing countries. Evidence supporting this belief is provided,... Section: Discussion Papers
by Alejandro Nin Pratt | On 01 Sep 2016 Demographic transition due to population aging is an emerging trend throughout the developing world,
and it is especially acute in China, which has undergone demographic transition more rapidly than... Section: Discussion Papers
by Xinxin Wang | On 01 Sep 2016 The extent of market integration and transmission of food price shocks is a major determinant of price
stability and overall food security, particularly in developing countries. Few studies have exam... Section: Discussion Papers
by Jarilkasin Ilyasov | On 01 Aug 2016 This study measures the willingness of male and female farmers to pay for climate-smart technology in
rice. Rice is the most important crop in India in terms of area, production, and consumption. It... Section: Discussion Papers
by Md. Tajuddin Khan | On 01 Aug 2016 A number of data initiatives exist that assemble and make available public expenditure data on
agriculture, in addition to other variables. Several of these data initiatives overlap in terms of which... Section: Discussion Papers
by Richard Anson | On 01 Jul 2016 Although both infrastructure and innovation play an important role in fostering a country’s economic growth, discussion in the literature about how the two are connected is limited. This paper examine... Section: Discussion Papers
by Xu Wang | On 01 Jul 2016 Few challenges facing the global community today match the scale of malnutrition, a condition that directly affects one in three people. Malnutrition manifests itself in many different ways: as poor c... Section: Reports
by International Food Policy Research Institute | On 14 Jun 2016 The existence of an inverse relationship between farm size and output per unit of land is well documented. However, little research focuses on if and how an inverse relationship between farm size and... Section: Discussion Papers
by Klaus Deininger | On 01 Jun 2016 Facing scarcity of a production factor, a firm can develop technologies to either substitute the scarce factor
(price effect) or complement the more abundant factors (market size effect). Whether th... Section: Discussion Papers
by zhibo Tan | On 01 Jun 2016 This study is undertaken to
quantify the benefits of contract farming
(CF)
on farmers’ income in a case
where new market opportunities are emerging for smallholder farmers in Nepal.
CF
is... Section: Discussion Papers
by Anjani Kumar | On 01 May 2016 This paper focuses on this agriculture-nutrition link in Nepal in the
context of the country’s decade-long civil conflict. Using panel household data from the Nepal Living Standards Survey (NLSS), co... Section: Discussion Papers
by Elizabeth Bageant | On 01 Mar 2016 Using results from the three rounds of Nepal Living Standard Surveys (conducted in 1995, 2003, and 2010), this study empirically assesses whether access to rented tractors or custom hiring services is... Section: Discussion Papers
by Hiroyuki Takeshima | On 01 Feb 2016 This paper calculates a Women’s
Disempowerment Index to examine women’s control over production, resources, income, household
decisions, and time burden. The index is based on a slightly modified me... Section: Discussion Papers
by Nuzhat Ahmad | On 01 Feb 2016 IFPRI’s Flagship Report puts into perspective the major food policy issues, developments, and decisions of 2015 and highlights challenges and opportunities for 2016. This year’s report takes an in-dep... Section: Reports
by International Food Policy Research Institute | On 01 Jan 2016 To understand whether and how inverse relationship between farm size and productivity changes when labor market performance improves, we use large national farm panel from India covering a quarter-cen... Section: Working Papers
by IFPRI International Food Policy Research Institute | On 01 Jan 2016 This paper examines whether an increase in women’s time in agriculture adversely affects maternal and child nutrition, and whether the lack of women’s time in reproductive work leads to poorer nutriti... Section: Discussion Papers
by SOPHIE THEIS | On 14 Dec 2015 In this paper, patterns of selection into temporary and permanent migration are described.
The simultaneity of migration, education, and other investment decisions creates a stark trade-off
between... Section: Discussion Papers
by Joyce J Chen | On 01 Dec 2015 To inform the formulation of policies and interventions to strengthen women’s land rights, this paper analyzes nationally representative data from Bangladesh,
Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, and Vietnam to... Section: Discussion Papers
by Kathryn Sproule | On 01 Nov 2015 This paper reviews the agricultural policy environment in Myanmar up until 2014 with an eye towards identifying policies that can help to accelerate productivity and profitability in the agricultural... Section: Working Papers
by Ulrike Nischan | On 01 Nov 2015 This article uses Pakistan’s 2010 floods to identify the
effects of a natural disaster on citizens’ aspirations. Aspirations were significantly reduced—especially
among the poorest and most vulnerab... Section: Discussion Papers
by Katrina Kosec | On 01 Oct 2015 Existing studies that evaluate the impact of pollution on human beings understate its negative effect on
cognition, mental health, and happiness. This paper attempts to fill in the gap via investigat... Section: Discussion Papers
by Xin Zhang | On 01 Sep 2015 This paper draws from a field research experiment to examine the
gendered aspects of willingness to pay for index-based insurance in Bangladesh. Participants were
presented with risky lotteries and... Section: Discussion Papers
by Daniel J. Clarke | On 01 Sep 2015 Limited statistics on internal migration, international migration, and remittances worldwide prohibit understanding of migration’s role in the agricultural transformation process. Insights from the qu... Section: Discussion Papers
by Valerie Mueller | On 01 Aug 2015 As stress on Indian agriculture increases because of several reasons, such as continuous fragmentation of landholdings and climate change, there is a serious threat to livelihood based on farming. Thi... Section: Discussion Papers
by Digvijay S. Negi | On 01 Jun 2015 This paper discusses the different agreements and
decisions reached in the Bali Ministerial Conference and the potential implications for the post-Bali work
program. The results of the Bali Minister... Section: Discussion Papers
by Eugenio Díaz Bonilla | On 01 May 2015 The Global Nutrition Report 2015 is a report card on the world’s nutrition globally, regionally, and country by country and on efforts to improve it. It assesses countries’ progress in meeting global... Section: Reports
by International Food Policy Research Institute | On 01 Jan 2015 IFPRI and India’s partnership played a particularly important role following the Green Revolution when that partnership analyzed the necessary policies to both promote domestic food production and to... Section: Briefs
by International Food Policy Research Institute | On 01 Jan 2015 The right to food is about freedom from hunger. The narrow meaning at hunger may be understood as the right to have two square meals a day, while in its broader meaning would include under nutrition.... Section: Working Papers
by Johani Xaxa | On 01 Nov 2014 The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) is approaching eight years of
implementation. Since 2006, it has offered up to 100 days per year of guaranteed public works
employm... Section: Discussion Papers
by Anil K. Bhargava | On 01 Oct 2014 Healthcare in developing countries is often unreliable and of poor quality, thus reducing individuals incentives to use quality health services. This paper examines an innovative approach to access to... Section: Discussion Paper
by Clara Delavallade | On 01 Jun 2014 This study was undertaken to assess farmers’ preferences and willingness to pay (WTP) for various climate-smart interventions in the Indo-Gangetic Plain. To assess farmers’ choices and their WTP for t... Section: Discussion Papers
by Garima Taneja | On 01 Apr 2014 This report highlights the global nature of malnutrition and the successes and bottlenecks in addressing it. Malnutrition continues to affect the lives of millions of children and women worldwide. Eve... Section: Reports
by International Food Policy Research Institute | On 01 Jan 2014 BRAC’s Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction—Targeting the Ultra Poor (CFPR-TUP) program in Bangladesh are studied, which targets asset transfer (primarily livestock) and training to rural wo... Section: Discussion Papers
by Narayan Das | On 01 Dec 2013 Secure land rights are a critical, but often overlooked, factor in achieving household food security and improved nutritional status in rural areas of developing countries. This study evaluates the im... Section: Discussion Papers
by Florence Santos | On 01 Dec 2013 This research was undertaken to understand how information about a new agricultural technology is transmitted through social networks, and what effect information gained through social networks has on... Section: Discussion Papers
by Nicholas Magnan | On 01 Nov 2013 The 2013 Global Hunger Index (GHI), which reflects data from the period 2008–2012, shows that global hunger has improved since 1990, falling by one-third. Despite the progress made the level of hunger... Section: Reports
by International Food Policy Research Institute | On 14 Oct 2013 In the report a review of 22 program models shows that a majority focused on improving breastfeeding and timely initiation of complementary feeding. However, only a few addressed the full spectrum of... Section: Desk Review
by Rasmi Avula | On 01 Oct 2013 India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) is one of the largest public works programs globally. Understanding the impacts of NREGS and the pathway through which its impacts are realiz... Section: Discussion Paper
by Songqing Jin | On 01 Sep 2013 This report reviews the input and output policies for cereals implemented in Pakistan during the period 1996–2010. Pakistan has a long and varied history of intervening in farm input and output market... Section: Discussion Papers
by Abdul Salam | On 01 Nov 2012 A primary census-type panel household survey is show that in 18 villages in rural China, child health status has barely improved in the past decades despite more than double digit of annual per capita... Section: Discussion Papers
by Xi Chen | On 01 Sep 2012 To reduce child under nutrition in India, convergence from various sectors are required. The framework notes that issues related to convergence must be resolved in relation to three major steps in the... Section: Discussion Papers
by Rajani Ved | On 01 Sep 2012 As sex ratio imbalances have become a problem in an increasing number of countries, it is important to understand their consequences. With the defeat of the Kuomintang Party in China, more than one mi... Section: Discussion Papers
by Simon Chang | On 01 Aug 2012 What are the implications
of a green economy for the poor and hungry? How can the poor benefit
from and thrive under a green economy? What role can agriculture
play? What are the possible trade-off... Section: Briefs
by Shenggen Fan | On 30 Jun 2012 This brief reviews recent evidence, examines main research challenges in identifying migration–climate links and discusses the policy options for formalizing migration as an adaptation mechanism to cl... Section: Briefs
by Jean-François Maystadt | On 04 May 2012 This study examines the contribution of Bt cotton adoption to long- term average cotton yields in India using a panel data analysis of production variables in nine Indian cotton-producing states from... Section: Discussion Papers
by Guillaume P Gruere | On 10 Apr 2012 Using a case study of two districts in South India, farmers’ information needs and information search behavior, factors affecting their search behavior, and their willingness to pay for information a... Section: Discussion Papers
by Suresh Chandra Babu | On 30 Mar 2012 This paper looks at some key entry points for agriculture to influence nutrition and suggests policies for
nutrition-sensitive agricultural development, within the current policy framework. In additi... Section: Discussion Papers
by S.Mahendra Dev | On 05 Feb 2012 This paper reviews the key policies with regard to agriculture inputs such as seed, fertilizer, water, agricultural equipment, research, extension, and agricultural credit. It also provides an overvie... Section: Discussion Papers
by Ganga Shreedhar | On 20 Jan 2012 The effect of export subsidies on the under-invoicing of exports in Bangladesh is analyzed. In a framework that allows for unobserved heterogeneity among importing countries and product specificities,... Section: Discussion Papers
by Pranav Kumar Gupta | On 10 Jan 2012 This paper examines the long-term impacts of improved school quality at the elementary school stage on subsequent schooling investments and labor market outcomes using unique data from a recent survey... Section: Discussion Papers
by Futoshi Yamauchi | On 30 Dec 2011 The focus is on the central role played by state-regulated commission agents, known as brokers: agents who are widely present in Indian markets to assist sellers in finding buyers through organizing a... Section: Discussion Papers
by Bart Minten | On 27 Dec 2011 It has been widely documented that the poor spend a significant proportion of their income on gifts even at the expense of basic consumption. We test three competing explanations of this phenomenon—pe... Section: Discussion Papers
by Xi Chen | On 10 Dec 2011 Rural households in developing economies frequently use precautionary saving to cope with income risk. Such prudent behavior can be strengthened in transition economies where more risks are typically... Section: Discussion Papers
by Ling Jin | On 19 Oct 2011 The Indian national program of agriclinics and agribusiness centers, started in 2002, aims to provide farmers with a reliable alternative to the private input dealer by subsidizing technically trained... Section: Discussion Papers
by Claire J Glendenning | On 14 Sep 2011 This paper examines the structure of India’s cereal seed and agbiotech industries, its potential effects on innovation and social welfare, and the policies that may improve both industry performance a... Section: Discussion Papers
by David J Spielman | On 31 Jul 2011 This paper assesses the global economic implications of the proposed strict documentation requirements on traded shipments of potentially genetically modified (GM) commodities under the Cartagena Prot... Section: Discussion Papers
by Antoine Bouët | On 31 Jul 2011 This brief presents a review of the potential opportunities
and challenges of using nanotech applications for agriculture, food, and
water in developing countries. [IFPRI Policy Brief 19]. URL:[http... Section: Briefs
by Guillaume Gruère | On 01 Jun 2011 In recent decades India has achieved one of the fastest economic growth rates in the world, yet its
progress against both child and adult undernutrition has been sluggish at best. While this Indian... Section: Discussion Papers
by Derek Headey | On 27 May 2011 Whether viewed as “land grabs” or as agricultural investment
for development, large-scale land deals by investors
in developing countries are generating considerable
attention. However, investors,... Section: Briefs
by Julia Behrman | On 28 Apr 2011 Payment systems in Malaysia have been undergoing changes in recent years. Among the notable changes is the emergence of electronic-based payment systems. The central bank has been playing an active ro... Section: Reports
by Amir Akmar Basir | On 25 Oct 2010 Growth in urban poverty, food insecurity, and malnutrition and a shift in their concentration from rural to urban areas will acompany urbanisation. This is a series of briefs covering various aspects... Section: Briefs
by James L. Garrett | On 01 Aug 2010 This brief summarizes a study evaluating the potential economic effects of introducing genetically modified (GM) food crops in India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and the Philippines in the presence of trad... Section: Briefs
by Guillaume Gruère | On 11 Nov 2009 China’s experience demonstrates the importance of technological development and public investment in improving agricultural productivity, farmer income, and food security in a nation with limited supp... Section: General
by Jikun Huang | On 07 Jun 2009 Migration can serve as an outlet for employment, higher earnings, and reduced income risk for households in developing countries. The 2004–2005 Human Development Profile of India survey is used to exa... Section: Discussion Papers
by Valerie Mueller | On 01 Apr 2009 The results of the India State Hunger Index 2008 highlight the continued overall severity of the hunger situation in India, while revealing the variation in hunger across states within India. It is in... Section: Reports
by Purnima Menon | On 01 Feb 2009 This paper reviews existing reform programs and strategies currently existing in agricultural extension in India. It distinguishes strategies that have been employed to strengthen both the supply and... Section: Discussion Papers
by Katharina Raabe | On 01 Jul 2008 Using original data collected about growers, traders, processors, markets, and village communities, the situation in four states – Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Orissa is compared. The w... Section: Discussion Papers
by Marcel Fafchamps | On 01 Sep 2007 This paper discusses the wide disparities that exist in childhood malnutrition, food insecurity and livelihoods within urban areas which, when combined with the mobility of urban residents,add to the... Section: Reports
by Marie T. Ruel | On 01 Jan 2004 "About 167 million children under five years of age —almost one-third of the developing world's children —are malnourished. If they survive childhood, many of these children will suffer from poorer co... Section: Discussion Paper
by Lisa C. Smith | On 29 Feb 2000 This comprehensive paper explains why and when soil degradation should be of particular concern to policymakers interested in assuring food security. The inferences in this paper are based on research... Section: Discussion Paper
by Sara J. Scherr | On 01 Feb 1999 This research report, which examines the effects of research and development on productivity in India, finds that India is still benefiting from these investments. The report shows that the public ben... Section: Reports
by Robert E Evenson | On 01 Jan 1999 |