Search Results - "Decadence"

Double Jeopardy: COVID-19, coup d'etat and poverty in Myanmar by Myanmar Agriculture Policy Support Activity

“…COVID and the coup d’état reversed a decade of growth and poverty reduction, but the full extent of the crisis on household poverty has remained uncertain because of the challenges of conducting large-scale in-person welfare surveys during the pandemic and recent political instability. …”
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The triple benefits of slimming and greening the Chinese food system by Wang, Xiaoxi, Bordirsky, Benjamin Leon, Müller, Chrisoph, Chen, Kevin Z., Yuan, Changzheng

“…Structural changes experienced by the country over the past few decades have boosted economic development but have worsened the mismatch between food supply and demand, deteriorated the environment, driven obesity and overnutrition levels up, and increased the risk for pathogen spread. …”
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Introduction to public policy and food security by Hendriks, Sheryl L., Babu, Suresh Chandra

“…With less than a decade to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, food insecurity, hunger and malnutrition continue to threaten far too many lives worldwide. …”
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At the ground level : Accounting for farmers’ perspectives and inclusion issues in seed promotion by Cavicchioli, Martina, Kramer, Berber, Trachtman, Carly

“…Over the past decades, uptake rates of new seed products in low-income countries have remained low. …”
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Impacts of import refusals on agricultural exports during pandemics: Implications for China by Mao, Rui, Jia, Ziyi, Chen, Kevin Z.

“…This paper examines the responses of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), import refusals, and subsequent trade impacts on the agricultural exports from the developing countries that were the epicenters of four pandemics in the past two decades. Using monthly data for the period 2002–2020, we find increased import refusals and amplified trade‐impeding impacts on agricultural exports during pandemic outbreaks. …”
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Stay in the game: A randomized controlled trial of a sports and life skills program for vulnerable youth in Liberia by Beaman, Lori, Herskowitz, Sylvan, Keleher, Niall, Magruder, Jeremy

“…Over the past two decades, sports programs have proliferated as a mode of engaging youth in development projects. …”
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This is US: Geography of evidence in top health economics journals by Hirvonen, Kalle

“…Together, they published 1,679 empirical research articles in the past decade (2010–2019). In line with analyses based on earlier periods, the empirical evidence in top health economics journals continues to be dominated by the United States (37% of all empirical articles), whereas studies based on low‐income countries remain rare (2%). …”
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Anatomy of non-tariff barriers in India–Sri Lanka free trade agreement: An empirical investigation by Pal, Barun Deb, Pohit, Sanjib

“…This article attempts to answer one crucial research question: why the utilization of India–Sri Lanka Free Trade Agreement (ISFTA) route for trade is very poor by the Indian exporters (13%) as compared to their Sri Lankan counterpart (65%) even after one decade of its implementation? The available studies have blamed the non-tariff barriers (NTBs) which are hamstringing the growth of trade between these partners development of international trade. …”
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Restructuring and revamping of Agriculture Institute by Rana, Abdul Wajid, Haider, Zeeshan

“…Agriculture, worldwide, has seen remarkable transformation in farming practices, institutional frameworks and policies during the last three decades. Dynamic international markets and the diffusion of bioinformatics technology are shifting farming towards a new organizational model. …”
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Building a case for increased investment in agricultural research in Africa by Stads, Gert-Jan, Nin-Pratt, Alejandro, Beintema, Nienke M.

“…Agricultural research and development (R&D) investment is positively associated with high returns, but these returns take time—often decades—to develop. Consequently, the inherent lag from the inception of research to the adoption of new technologies calls for sustained and stable R&D funding. …”
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Travel Time to Markets in Africa South of the Sahara by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Most of publicly available data benchmarks around the year 2000, not reflecting rapid development of transportation infrastructure in Africa South of the Sahara (SSA) in last decade. For this, using a newly available accessibility model input datasets, such as new land cover data from satellites, crowdsourced road network data, and updated population of major human settlements across SSA, HarvestChoice Project updated the existing market accessibility data and provides new market accessibility data layers benchmarking around the year 2010. …”
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Processing trade, domestic and foreign firms, and the differential impact of the Great Recession: Evidence from Chinese customs data by Roy, Devesh, Tian, Xi

“…We exploit the longitudinal nature of the data spanning almost a decade (2003-2011), as well as product level details available in the customs data, to establish causal links. …”
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2015 IFPRI audited financial statements by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…IFPRI's anniversary celebration on November 18 included a wide array of partners, both past and present, who have helped IFPRI fulfill its mission across the decades. Also toward the end of the year, IFPRI launched Compact2025, IFPRI's bold new initiative for ending hunger and under-nutrition by 2025. …”
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Cropland expansion in Ethiopia: Economic and climatic considerations for highland agriculture by Schmidt, Emily, Thomas, Timothy S.

“…Most of this dynamism occurred in the highlands, where high population density and land scarcity begs the question of how future agricultural output can be maintained to sustain the previous decade’s momentum. This paper uses a spatial regression approach to calculate the maximum crop area potential of each kebele in Ethiopia. …”
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Enhancing nutrition and ending poverty: IFPRI and India by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…IFPRI’S PARTNERSHIP WITH INDIA BEGAN MORE THAN 40 YEARS AGO, IN THE WAKE OF THE GREEN REVOLUTION. Over the last four decades, IFPRI’s research in India has addressed the most pressing issues of the times. …”
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Introduction [In The Economics of Teff] by Minten, Bart, Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum, Brown, Petra

“…Moreover, while Ethiopia has made important strides in the reduction of poverty and the improvement of food security over the past decades, poverty and food insecurity levels remain high. …”
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Key issues in regional growth and integration in Southern Africa by Arndt, Channing, Roberts, Simon J.

“…The decade to 2015 saw rapid growth in trade between Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries. …”
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Delving deeper into the agricultural transformation and youth employment nexus: The Nigerian case by Adesugba, Margaret Abiodun, Mavrotas, George

“…This is particularly important in sub-Saharan Africa where about 85 percent of youth (defined by the ILO as all those between the ages of 15 and 24 years) are poor, 70 percent live in rural areas where agriculture is the main source for their income and subsistence, and 11 million youth are expected to enter the labor market every year for the next decade (World Bank 2014). These characteristics of youth in sub-Saharan Africa justify the centrality of the nexus between youth employment and agriculture in formulating development policy on the continent. …”
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Food policy in a complex, changing world: Event synopsis by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Food policy—at global, regional, national, and local levels —operates in an increasingly complex world that is changing faster than ever. In the past several decades, many important food policy questions have been answered and challenges have been overcome. …”
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Highlights of recent IFPRI research and partnerships in Bangladesh: Reducing poverty and hunger through food policy research by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…For more than two decades, IFPRI’s research and policy analysis have been a resource for Bangladesh in making impressive strides in ensuring food security and reducing poverty. …”
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