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Assessing And Attributing The Benefits From Varietal Improvement Research In Brazil
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Book Synopsis Assessing and Attributing the Benefits from Varietal Improvement Research in Brazil by : Philip G. Pardey
Download or read book Assessing and Attributing the Benefits from Varietal Improvement Research in Brazil written by Philip G. Pardey and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report provides a detailed economic assessment of the magnitude and sources of the economic benefits to Brazil since the early 1980s from varietal improvements in upland rice, edible beans, and soybeans. The authors pay particular attention to isolating the benefits from genetic improvement, which they distinguish from other factors that change grain yield or quality. They use detailed information on the genetic and breeding histories of each crop and the institutional arrangements for crop-improvement research in Brazil to estimate the benefits attributable to the research done by the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) and by other Brazilian agencies. They capture international spill-in effects as well. The authors also provide more general insight into the importance of addressing attribution questions in evaluating public research investments, develop some methods for doing so, and illustrate how to apply them.
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Book Synopsis Evaluating Targeted Cash Transfer Programs by : David Coady
Download or read book Evaluating Targeted Cash Transfer Programs written by David Coady and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report focuses on the indirect and direct effects of transfer programs. In particular, it shows how modelling results can be combined with information from standard household surveys to provide an integrated analysis of the direct distributional impact of such programs and the indirect distributional and efficiency impacts arising from domestic financing mechanisms. This approach reflects the view that any credible poverty alleviation strategy must have a credible financing strategy underlying it, and this need for domestic financing can have important consequences for both the level and the distribution of household incomes. To illustrate the approach, the report focuses on the recent introduction in Mexico of an innovative poverty alleviation transfer program called PROGRESA, which has been used as a prototype for similar programs that have recently been implemented in other developing countries.
Book Synopsis Agricultural R and D in the Developing World by : Philip G. Pardey
Download or read book Agricultural R and D in the Developing World written by Philip G. Pardey and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2006 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The world's agricultural economy was transformed remarkably during the 20th century. The agricultural productivity growth that fueled this change was generated primarily by agricultural R&D financed and conducted by a small group of rich countries-especially the United States, but also Japan, Germany, and France. In an increasingly interdependent world, both rich and poor countries have depended on agricultural research conducted in the private and public laboratories of these few countries, even if they have not contributed to financing the activity. But now the rich-country research agendas are shifting. In particular, they are no longer as interested in simple productivity enhancement. Dietary patterns and other priorities change as incomes increase. Food-security concerns are still pervasive among poor people, predominantly in poor countries. In rich countries we see a declining emphasis on enhancing the production of staple foods and an increasing emphasis on enhancing certain attributes of food (such as growing demand for processed and so-called functional foods) and on food production systems (such as organic farming, humane livestock production systems, localized food sources, and "fair trade" coffee). In addition to growing differences between rich and poor countries in consumer demand for innovation, research agendas may diverge because of differences in producer and processor demands. Farmers in rich countries are demanding high-technology inputs that often are not as relevant for subsistence agriculture (such as precision farming technology or other capital-intensive methods). As well as differences in value-adding processes to serve consumer demands, differences in farm production technologies are emerging to serve the evolving agribusiness demands for farm products with specific attributes for particular food, feed, energy, medical, or industrial applications.The purpose of this volume is to document the changing institutions and investments in agricultural R&D in less-developed countries, in part to form a companion volume to Paying for Agricultural Productivity by providing a more complete global picture of the issues."
Author :Frank Place, Steve Franzel, Qureish Noordin, and Bashir Jama Publisher :Intl Food Policy Res Inst ISBN 13 : Total Pages :63 pages Book Rating :4./5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Improved Fallows in Kenya: History, Farmer Practice, and Impacts by : Frank Place, Steve Franzel, Qureish Noordin, and Bashir Jama
Download or read book Improved Fallows in Kenya: History, Farmer Practice, and Impacts written by Frank Place, Steve Franzel, Qureish Noordin, and Bashir Jama and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Emergence and Spreading of an Improved Traditional Soil and Water Conservation Practice in Burkina Faso by : Daniel Kaboré
Download or read book The Emergence and Spreading of an Improved Traditional Soil and Water Conservation Practice in Burkina Faso written by Daniel Kaboré and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2004 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Freddie Kwesiga, Steven Franzel, Paramu Mafongoya, Olu Ajayi, Donald Phiri, Roza Katanga, Elias Kuntashula, Frank Place, and Teddy Chirwa. Publisher :Intl Food Policy Res Inst ISBN 13 : Total Pages :81 pages Book Rating :4./5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Improved Fallows in Eastern Zambia: History, Farmer Practice and Impacts by : Freddie Kwesiga, Steven Franzel, Paramu Mafongoya, Olu Ajayi, Donald Phiri, Roza Katanga, Elias Kuntashula, Frank Place, and Teddy Chirwa.
Download or read book Improved Fallows in Eastern Zambia: History, Farmer Practice and Impacts written by Freddie Kwesiga, Steven Franzel, Paramu Mafongoya, Olu Ajayi, Donald Phiri, Roza Katanga, Elias Kuntashula, Frank Place, and Teddy Chirwa. and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Stefanie Engel, Maria Iskandarani, and Maria del Pilar Useche Publisher :Intl Food Policy Res Inst ISBN 13 : Total Pages :61 pages Book Rating :4./5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Improved Water Supply in the Ghanaian Volta Basin: Who Uses it and Who Participates in Community Decision-Making? by : Stefanie Engel, Maria Iskandarani, and Maria del Pilar Useche
Download or read book Improved Water Supply in the Ghanaian Volta Basin: Who Uses it and Who Participates in Community Decision-Making? written by Stefanie Engel, Maria Iskandarani, and Maria del Pilar Useche and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Assessing the Spatial Distribution of Crop Production Using a Cross-Entropy Method by : Liangzhi You and Stanley Wood
Download or read book Assessing the Spatial Distribution of Crop Production Using a Cross-Entropy Method written by Liangzhi You and Stanley Wood and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2012 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While agricultural production statistics are reported on a geopolitical - often national - basis we often need to know the status of production or productivity within specific sub-regions, watersheds, or agro-ecological zones. Such re-aggregations are typically made using expert judgments or simple area-weighting rules. We describe a new, entropy-based approach to making spatially disaggregated assessments of the distribution of crop production. Using this approach tabular crop production statistics are blended judiciously with an array of other secondary data to assess the production of specific crops within individual "pixels" - typically 25 to 100 square kilometers in size. The information utilized includes crop production statistics, farming system characteristics, satellite-derived land cover data, biophysical crop suitability assessments, and population density. An application is presented in which Brazilian state level production statistics are used to generate pixel level crop production data for eight crops. To validate the spatial allocation we aggregated the pixel estimates to obtain synthetic estimates of municipio level production in Brazil, and compared those estimates with actual municipio statistics. The approach produced extremely promising results. We then examined the robustness of these results compared to short-cut approaches to spatializing crop production statistics and showed that, while computationally intensive, the cross-entropy method does provide more reliable estimates of crop production patterns.
Author :Kelly Hallman, David Lewis, and Suraiya Begum Publisher :Intl Food Policy Res Inst ISBN 13 : Total Pages :88 pages Book Rating :4./5 ( download)
Book Synopsis An Integrated Economic and Social Analysis to Assess the Impact of Vegetable and Fishpond Technologies on Poverty in Rural Bangladesh by : Kelly Hallman, David Lewis, and Suraiya Begum
Download or read book An Integrated Economic and Social Analysis to Assess the Impact of Vegetable and Fishpond Technologies on Poverty in Rural Bangladesh written by Kelly Hallman, David Lewis, and Suraiya Begum and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Spatial Patterns of Crop Yields in Latin America and the Caribbean by : Stanley Wood, Liangzhi You, and Xiaobo Zhang
Download or read book Spatial Patterns of Crop Yields in Latin America and the Caribbean written by Stanley Wood, Liangzhi You, and Xiaobo Zhang and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Managing Resources in Erratic Environments by : Nancy A. McCarthy
Download or read book Managing Resources in Erratic Environments written by Nancy A. McCarthy and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study analyzes the links between risk and the kinds of property rights that have evolved to provide the mobility necessary to raise livestock in drought-prone countries--in this case Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, and Niger. The study also evaluates the impact of cooperation on resource management in these environments. The express purpose of this research is to contribute to the current debate on resource management in highly variable environments, focusing on the impact of climate variability on and the role of cooperation in resource management. More specifically, a conceptual framework is developed to analyze the impact of climatic variability and cooperative capacity on land allocation patterns, stock densities, and patterns of herd mobility. Overall, the empirical results suggest that effective policies for sustainable land management and crisis-response plans may require the design and implementation of mechanisms to increase cooperative capacity.
Book Synopsis Food Policy for the Poor by : Joachim Von Braun
Download or read book Food Policy for the Poor written by Joachim Von Braun and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Edmeades, Melinda Smale, Mitch Renkow, and Dan Phaneuf Publisher :Intl Food Policy Res Inst ISBN 13 : Total Pages :68 pages Book Rating :4./5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Variety demand Within the Framework of an Agricultural Household Model With Attributes: The Case of Bananas in Uganda by : Edmeades, Melinda Smale, Mitch Renkow, and Dan Phaneuf
Download or read book Variety demand Within the Framework of an Agricultural Household Model With Attributes: The Case of Bananas in Uganda written by Edmeades, Melinda Smale, Mitch Renkow, and Dan Phaneuf and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2004 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Nicholas A. Linacre, Joanne Gaskell, Mark W. Rosegrant, Jose Falck-Zepeda, Hector Quemada, Mark Halsey, and Regina Birner. Publisher :Intl Food Policy Res Inst ISBN 13 : Total Pages :55 pages Book Rating :4./5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Analysis for Biotechnology Innovations Using Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) by : Nicholas A. Linacre, Joanne Gaskell, Mark W. Rosegrant, Jose Falck-Zepeda, Hector Quemada, Mark Halsey, and Regina Birner.
Download or read book Analysis for Biotechnology Innovations Using Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) written by Nicholas A. Linacre, Joanne Gaskell, Mark W. Rosegrant, Jose Falck-Zepeda, Hector Quemada, Mark Halsey, and Regina Birner. and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Valuation and Sustainable Mangement of Crop and Livestock Biodiversity: A Review of Appied Economics Literature by :
Download or read book Valuation and Sustainable Mangement of Crop and Livestock Biodiversity: A Review of Appied Economics Literature written by and published by Bioversity International. This book was released on with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
