Search Results - "The Analyst"

DREAMpy by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…DREAMpy is an open source user-friendly software that allows analysts to evaluate agricultural R&D projects. This tool is based on an economic surplus partial equilibrium model (Alston et al. 1995) and builds on the IFPRI 1995 DREAM (Dynamic Research EvaluAtion for Management) software package that has been widely used around the world. …”
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IMPACT Projections of Food Production, Consumption, and Hunger to 2050, With and Without Climate Change: Extended Country-level Results for 2019 GFPR Annex Table 5 by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Policy makers, analysts, and civil society face increasing challenges to reducing hunger and improving food security in a sustainable way. …”
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IMPACT Projections of Demand for Agricultural Products: Extended Country-level Results for 2017 GFPR Annex IMPACT Trend 1 by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Policy makers, analysts, and civil society face increasing challenges to reducing hunger and improving food security in a sustainable way. …”
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IMPACT Projections of Food Production, Consumption, and Net Trade to 2050, With and Without Climate Change: Extended Country-level Results for 2019 GFPR Annex Table 6 by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Policy makers, analysts, and civil society face increasing challenges to reducing hunger and improving food security in a sustainable way. …”
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Extended Results from the International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade (IMPACT version 3.2.1) for Sulser et al (2015) by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Policy makers, analysts, and civil society face increasing challenges to reducing hunger and improving food security in a sustainable way. …”
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IMPACT Projections of Change in Total Aggregate Cereal Demand, 2010-2050: Extended Country-level Results for 2017 GFPR Annex IMPACT Trend 2 by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Policy makers, analysts, and civil society face increasing challenges to reducing hunger and improving food security in a sustainable way. …”
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IMPACT Projections of Food Production, Consumption, and Hunger to 2050, With and Without Climate Change: Extended Country-level Results for 2017 GFPR Annex Table 6 by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Policy makers, analysts, and civil society face increasing challenges to reducing hunger and improving food security in a sustainable way. …”
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IMPACT Projections of Share of Population at Risk of Hunger: Extended Country-level Results for 2017 GFPR Annex IMPACT Trend 3 by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Policy makers, analysts, and civil society face increasing challenges to reducing hunger and improving food security in a sustainable way. …”
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Understanding the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s agricultural paradox: Based on the eAtlas data platform by Marivoet, Wim, Ulimwengu, John M., El Vilaly, Mohamed Abd Salam

“…Among the tools developed, country eAtlas—which is freely available online (http://eatlas. resakss.org/)—is a highly interactive, geographic information systems–based mapping tool designed to provide policymakers and analysts with access to high-quality, highly disaggregated data on agricultural, socioeconomic, and biophysical indicators.…”
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Strategic analysis and knowledge support systems for rural development strategies in Sub-Saharan Africa by Johnson, Michael E., Resnick, Danielle, Bolwig, Simon, Chamberlin, Jordan, You, Liangzhi, Wood, Stanley, Hazell, Peter B. R.

“…While greater growth in agriculture and the broader rural sector is crucial for ameliorating Africa's high levels of poverty and malnutrition, developing strategies to achieve these objectives is hindered by a number of factors, including the broad array of interventions needed, the lack of accurate data, and dearth of trained local policy analysts. As such, this paper proposes a Strategic Analysis Knowledge Support System (SAKSS) in which data, tools, and knowledge are compiled, analyzed, and disseminated for the purposes of identifying a set of priority investment and policy options to promote agricultural growth and rural development. …”
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Demand for high-value secondary crops in developing countries: the case of potatoes in Bangladesh and Pakistan by Bouis, Howarth E., Scott, Gregory J.

“…But, given the large number of possible crops to be studied, policy analysts require an estimation procedure that is less data-intensive and time-intensive than standard econometric estimation procedures. …”
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Sustaining capacity for supplying evidence for agricultural & rural development policies by Adebayo, Kolawole, Rhoe, Valerie

“…The objectives of this consultative workshop were to identify: specific capacity challenges confronting university professors who are teaching the next generation of policymakers, policy analysts, researchers and university professors; curriculum gaps within the university programs for building capacity for designing and implementing pro-poor, gender sensitive, and environmentally sustainable agricultural and rural development policies and strategies; employment opportunities for the university graduates in agricultural economics and extension and the required skills; existing capacity for undertaking agriculture and rural development policy research; and current methods used by researchers to convey their results to decisionmakers and other stakeholders.…”
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Alternative futures for world cereal and meat consumption by Rosegrant, Mark W., Leach, Nancy, Gerpacio, Roberta V.

“…The present paper examines the hypothesis, suggested by some researchers, that high-meat diets in developed countries limit improvement in food security in developing countries. These analysts argue that reduced meat consumption in developed countries would release cereals from livestock feed to food for poorer populations, thus improving food security in developing countries. …”
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Implications of high throughput sequencing of plant viruses in biosecurity – a decade of progress? by Fox, A., Botermans, M., Ziebell, H., Fowkes, A.R., Pareta, N.F., Massart, S., Rodoni, B., Chooi, K.M., Kreuze, J., Kumar, P.L., Cuellar, W., Carvajal-Yepes, M., MacDiarmid, R.M.

“…This equality will create increased consonance between community members, researchers, risk analysts, biosecurity authorities, and policy makers at national and international levels and a step change reduction of biosecurity incursions of phytopathogenic viruses.…”
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Optimisation of the germination test protocol for viability monitoring of Chamaecytisus proliferus seeds in genebank collections by Olbana, Tamiru, Hay, F.R., Negawo, Alemayehu T., Muchugi, A., Jones, Christopher S.

“…Many forage species exhibit seed dormancy, which prevents germination and poses challenges for seed growers and analysts. Various methods have been developed to overcome dormancy in different forage species, but their effectiveness varies depending on the species and environmental conditions during seed development and storage. …”
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L'exploitation forestiere illegale en Indonesie: un inquietant processus de legalisation by Obidzinski, K., Suramenggala, I., Levang, P.

“…In recent years, there has been a tendency on the part of industry analysts and forestry sector observes to view the seemingly irremediable spread of illegal logging in the country in isolation, as a result of disassociated and pre mediated criminal acts. …”
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Alliance for a Data Revolution: CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture 2017 Convention Report by CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture

“…In addition, this pillar will develop open digital infrastructures for the sector that support the CGIAR’s work and enable new partnerships and innovations. The aim to convene analysts, researchers and public, private and non-profit actors in the agriculture sector will build new partnerships that both shape and fully leverage digital technologies in support of global agricultural development. …”
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The (Arab) Agricultural Investment for Development Analyzer (AIDA): An innovative tool for evidence-based planning by Raouf, Mariam, Kassim, Yumna, Kurdi, Sikandra, Mogues, Tewodaj, Mahmoud, Mai, Randriamamonjy, Josee, Thurlow, James, Wiebelt, Manfred, Breisinger, Clemens

“…This paper describes an innovative agricultural and rural economic planning tool that will help governments and analysts in the design of agricultural investment plans: the (Arab) Agricultural Investment for Development Analyzer (AIDA). …”
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The Abbreviated Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (A-WEIA). Project results for “His and Hers, time and income: How intra-household dynamics impact nutrition in agricultural... by Muriel, Juliana, Twyman, Jennifer, Useche, Pilar, Lopera, Diana Carolina, González, Carolina, Talsma, Elise F.

“…Interest in understanding the inequalities between rural men and women, and in particular, the obstacles and limitations that women face in order to have greater inclusion in the agricultural sector, has generated the need to construct empowerment indicators which enable analysts to identify actions oriented towards the attainment of gender equity. …”
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Decoding the vitality of earth observation for flood monitoring in the Lower Godavari River Basin, India by Mukherjee, J., Ghosh, Surajit

“…This study exhibits how Earth observation (EO) datasets and cloud platforms like Google Earth Engine (GEE) can be used for swift, lucid and accurate decoding of the flood inundation signatures. Geospatial analysts can estimate concurrent floods using high-resolution C-band SAR/Sentinel-1 images, gridded precipitation and streamflow forecast datasets. …”
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