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Feeding Africa - How Small-Scale Irrigation Can Help Farmers To Change The Game
All CountriesELIZABETH BRYAN AND CLAUDIA RINGLER

Small-scale irrigation can help smallholder farmers to increase agricultural productivity and incomes. It can be scaled quickly and without large public investments. For these reasons, it can contribute more rapidly to the achievement of national agr...

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Private Sector Promotion Of Climate-Smart Technologies
All CountriesLENIS SAWEDA LIVERPOOL-TASIE, ANDREW DILLON, JEFFR...

Sustainable intensification is predicated on climate-smart agricultural input adoption. We test strategies for promoting the adoption of climate-smart agricultural inputs in Nigeria with a private sector firm. We disentangle the effects of price disc...

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Lessons Learnt In Nutrition Education Communication And Advocacy
All CountriesHARVESTPLUS

Introducing biofortified crops as new crops on the market required people to receive the right information as to why they should produce and consume these crops. Nutrition trainings were a platform to disseminate this much needed information. These t...

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Measuring Changes In The Rwanda’s Agri-Food System
RwandaIFPRI

Transformation of the agri-food system (AFS) is a leading pathway to achieve the USG Global Food Security Strategy Objective 1 of “Inclusive agriculture-led growth”. The AFS encompasses the primary agricultural sector, as well as all upstream and dow...

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Measuring Changes In The Tanzania’s Agri-Food System
TanzaniaIFPRI

Transformation of the agri-food system (AFS) is a leading pathway to achieve the USG Global Food Security Strategy Objective 1 of “Inclusive agriculture-led growth”. The AFS encompasses the primary agricultural sector, as well as all upstream and dow...

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Measuring Changes In The Zambia’s Agri-Food System
ZambiaIFPRI

Transformation of the agri-food system (AFS) is a leading pathway to achieving USG Global Food Security Strategy Objective 1 of “inclusive agriculture-led growth”. The AFS encompasses the primary agricultural sector, as well as all upstream and downs...

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Measuring Changes In The Uganda’s Agri-Food System
UgandaIFPRI

Transformation of the agri-food system (AFS) is a leading pathway to achieve the USG Global Food Security Strategy Objective 1 of “Inclusive agriculture-led growth”. The AFS encompasses the primary agricultural sector, as well as all upstream and dow...

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Valuing Control Over Income And Time Use - A Field Experiment In Rwanda
RwandaWILLIAM HICKMAN, BERBER KRAMER, JOHANNA MOLLERSTRO...

Agricultural development programs often aim to increase women’s incomes and to enhance their control over family resources by offering new work opportunities, but as an unintended negative consequence, these programs may further increase women’s alre...

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Evaluating The Impacts Of Watershed Rehabilitation And Irrigation Interventions On Vegetation Greenness And Soil Erosion Using Remote Sensing And Biophysical Modelling In Feresmay Watershed I
EthiopiaYARED BAYISSA, YIHUN DILE, RAGHAVAN SRINIVASAN,

This study evaluates the performance and impacts of SWC practices in terms of improving vegetation greenness and reducing soil erosion in Feresmay watershed in Ethiopia. Long-term Landsat-based Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Revised U...

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Assessing Investment Priorities For Driving Inclusive Agricultural Transformation In Tanzania
TanzaniaEMERTA ARAGIE, RUI BENFICA, KARL PAUW, et al

This study utilizes a recursive dynamic general equilibrium model calibrated with data for Tanzania to explore the link between agricultural and rural development spending and four development outcomes: economic growth, job creation, poverty reductio...

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Micro Insights On The Pathways To Agricultural Transformation
All CountriesMULUBRHAN AMARE, PRIYANKA PARVATHI AND TRUNG THANH...

Most studies of agricultural transformation document the impact of agricultural income growth on macroeconomic indicators of development. Much less is known about the micro-scale changes within the farming sector that signal a transformation precipit...

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Solar-Powered Cold-Storage And Agrifood Market Modernization In Nigeria
NigeriaHIROYUKI TAKESHIMA, FUTOSHI YAMAUCHI, HYACINTH EDE...

his study fills this knowledge gap by providing evidence from the evaluation of recent interventions in northeast Nigeria in which seven small solar-powered cold storages were installed across seven horticulture markets. Combinations of difference-in...

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