Search Results - "Decadence"

IFPRI's strategy toward food and nutrition security: Food policy research, capacity strengthening, and policy communications by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…This document sets out the strategy for the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) for the next decade. The Institute's vision and mission are cornerstones of the strategy: IFPRI's Vision is a world free of hunger and malnutrition, and IFPRI's Mission is to provide policy solutions that reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition. …”
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Accelerated growth and structural transformation: Assessing Ghana’s options to reach middle-income status by Breisinger, Clemens, Diao, Xinshen, Thurlow, James, Yu, Bingxin, Kolavalli, Shashidhara

“…Achieving this goal will require Ghana to double its per capita income over the next decade. In this paper we explore the growth experiences of other developing countries that have successfully transformed their economies from situations similar to Ghana’s today. …”
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The role of clustering in rural industrialization: A case study of the footwear industry in Wenzhou by Huang, Zuhui, Zhang, Xiaobo, Zhu, Yunwei

“…However, over the past several decades Wenzhou has developed the most dynamic private sector in China, and has accordingly achieved one of the fastest growth rates. …”
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Resource abundance and regional development in China by Zhang, Xiaobo, Xing, Li, Fan, Shenggen, Luo, Xiaopeng

“…Over the past several decades, China has made tremendous progress in market integration and infrastructure development. …”
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Policies to promote cereal intensification in Ethiopia: A review of evidence and experience by Byerlee, Derek, Spielman, David J., Alemu, Dawit, Gautam, Madhur

“…Despite more than a decade of policies placing high priority on cereal intensification, backed by one of the highest rates of public expenditures on agricultural in Africa, Ethiopia has yet to see payoffs in terms of higher and more stable cereal yields, reduced dependency on food aid, improved food security, and lower consumer prices for staples. …”
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Zambia: A quiet crisis in African research and development by Elliott, Howard, Perrault, Paul T.

“…This potential has not been realized because of post-independence national policies that involved a suite of state interventions, which became unsustainable with falling copper revenues. In the past decade, Zambia has largely adhered to structural adjustment measures; however, as a consequence, its agricultural R&D institutions have lost significant key resources and subsequently credibility, when the research agenda failed to evolve quickly enough to respond to, much less lead, the changes in the economy.…”
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Rural and urban dynamics and poverty: Evidence from China and India by Fan, Shenggen, Chan-Kang, Connie, Mukherjee, Anit

“…Like many developing countries, China and India followed development strategies biased in favor of the urban sector over the last several decades. These development schemes have led to overall efficiency losses due to misallocation of resources among rural and urban sectors. …”
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Impact of global warming on Chinese wheat productivity by You, Liangzhi, Rosegrant, Mark W., Fang, Cheng, Wood, Stanley

“…Rising temperature over the past two decades accounts for a 2.4 percent decline in wheat yields in China while the majority of the wheat yield growth, 75 percent, comes from increased use of physical inputs. …”
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Educating agricultural researchers: a review of the role of African universities by Beintema, Nienke M., Pardey, Philip G., Roseboom, Johannes

“…Only one half of the African faculties of agricultural sciences offer postgraduate degrees, and most of these programs were established in the past decade. Nonetheless, much of the rapid growth in the number of national scientists working in national agricultural research institutes continues to rely on scientists trained to the postgraduate (and also BSc) level outside the region.…”
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The role of social assistance in African crises: A systematic literature review by Hirvonen, Kalle, Justino, Patricia, Oliveira, Rodrigo

“…Despite the significant increase in the number of these programmes over the past two decades, the need for emergency aid remains. Our review focuses on quantitative studies using microdata to assess the impact of these programmes on household income, poverty, assets, and food security outcomes during crises. …”
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Managing agricultural water resources: Addressing the complexity of innovation, social perspectives, and water governance in Sri Lanka by Jayasiri, Maveekumbure Manthreethilaka Jayasiri Gamaralalage Chathuri, Yadav, Sudhir, Dayawansa, Nandani Dhammika Kumari, Ingold, Karin

“…Although it has been recognized for decades, improving irrigation water‐use efficiency and water productivity is still considered the most realistic option for addressing the challenge of sustainable management of water resources. …”
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Transcriptomics view over the germination landscape in biofortified rice by Dueñas, Conrado Jr., Slamet-Loedin, Inez, Macovei, Anca

“…Multiple biofortified rice lines have been produced during the past decades, while few studies also reported modifications in germination behavior (in terms of enhanced or decreased germination percentage or speed). …”
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Enviromics: bridging different sources of data, building one framework by Costa-Neto, Germano, Fritsche-Neto, Roberto

“…This review highlights the main concepts surrounding the construction of the “modern enviromics science”, tracing back to its origins in the last decades. Finally, we present how this field has helped integrate different data sources in prediction-based models or build one framework.…”
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Low glycemic index rice-a desired trait in starchy staples by Jukanti, Aravind Kumar, Pautong, Putlih Adzra, Liu, Qiaoquan, Sreenivasulu, Nese

“…The global shift in food consumption patterns accompanied by a sedentary lifestyle has been driving the upsurge of non-communicable diseases, projected to remain as a global health challenge for the coming decades. Sustainable food-centric interventions should be developed and strengthened to mitigate the growing health concerns with huge socio-economic implications. …”
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Wholesalers, wholesale markets, and symbiosis with the emerging logistics sector by Reardon, Thomas

“…Finally, there remain important policy challenges and research gaps related to this topic that are an urgent agenda over the next decade – and beyond.…”
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Prioritizing agri-food system investments under climatic and world price risks by Aragie, Emerta A.

“…The country registered robust agricultural growth of about 5% on average for a decade since 2013 (NBE, 2023). The Ethiopian government has been encouraged to target its development interventions to sustain and accelerate the growth and transformation of the economy (IFAD, 2023; Aragie & Balié, 2019). …”
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Towards a common vision of climate, peace, and security in Somalia by Villa, Victor, Schapendonk, Frans, Sax, Niklas, Kenduiywo, Benson, Benzid, Rym, Nunow, Abdimajid, Pacillo, Grazia

“…The role of climate change and environmental degradation in further exacerbating these dynamics has become increasingly evident over the past decade or so. Aside from contributing to recurring humanitarian crises and displacement, environmental extremes also feed into the emergence of natural resource competition and offer new strategic opportunities for non-state armed groups (NSAGs) to further assert their dominance. …”
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Unpacking the links between conflict and child welfare: Evidence from a foreign insurgency by Kaila, Heidi, Nawo, Larissa, Son, Hyuk

“…Using data from Cameroon collected from a decade be- fore to shortly after the eruption of the Boko Haram insurgency in the country, we study the immediate impacts of terrorist attacks on child welfare. …”
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Grain price stabilization experiences in Asia: what have we learned?” by Cummings, Jr. , Ralph, Rashid, Shahidur, Gulati, Ashok

“…Analyzing case studies of six Asian countries, which have tried to tackle the task in different ways with varying degrees of success, eight key lessons can be learned from the more than three decades of food price stabilization in Asia. Times have changed: policies and public agencies that may have been appropriate 30 years ago are not optimal today. …”
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CGIAR Science Group Evaluations: Brief on Partnerships by Independent Advisory and Evaluation Service

“…From the three SG evaluations and their Synthesis-including the online survey and several case studies- recommendations on partnerships from the 2021 Synthesis of Learning from a Decade of CGIAR Research Programs were considered. …”
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