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Business operations of agrodealers and their participation in the loan market...
The weaknesses in the financial and technical capacity of Nigeria’s agrodealers came to light when many of them could not provide the financial backing for their role in distributing inputs under the...
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Improving the food policy process
Lessons from capacity strengthening of parliamentarians in Ghana Evidence-based policymaking has been a critical aspect of development strategy for more than 20 years in developing countries. Yet the...
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Loan demand and rationing among small-scale farmers in Nigeria
The credit market serving agriculture in Nigeria is encumbered by operational and administrative inadequacies and the discriminatory tendencies of financial institutions. The government has implemented...
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Understanding the policy landscape for climate change adaptation
A cross-country comparison using the Net-map method In the context of increasing vulnerability to climate change for people dependent on natural resources for their livelihoods, the International Food...
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Climate, change adaptation assets and group-based approaches
Gendered perceptions from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Mali, and Kenya People who rely on natural resources for their livelihoods are more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and are often limited in...
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IFPRI Roundtable on Next Harvest II
Time: 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm EST (please join us at 11:45 am for a light lunch) Presenter(s): Judy Chambers, Director, Program for Biosafety Systems, IFPRI | Patricia Zambrano, Senior Research Analyst,...
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2011 Social Accounting Matrix for Senegal
There is a tradition of building up and using social accounting matrices (SAM) for economywide modeling and informing policy decisions in Senegal. The last SAM was published in 2006 and the...
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Communities’ perceptions and knowledge of ecosystem services
Evidence from rural communities in Nigeria This research has been undertaken to improve our understanding of stakeholders’ knowledge and perception about ecosystem services (ES), which provides a...
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After the ten percent
Moving agriculture in Ghana Ghana is among the African nations that committed to develop agriculture as part of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP), the agricultural...
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Market imperfections for tractor service provision in Nigeria
International perspectives and empirical evidence Agricultural mechanization often accompanies agricultural transformation. In some countries in Africa south of Sahara (SSA), such as Nigeria, the...
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Benin: Fiche d’information sur les indicateurs de la R&D agricole
Benin: Fiche d’information sur les indicateurs de la R&D agricole Entre 2000 et 2011, les dépenses consacrées à la R&D agricole au Bénin ont plus que doublé, principalement sous l’effet...
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Burkina Faso: Agricultural R&D Indicators Factsheet
Burkina Faso: ASTI Agricultural R&D Indicators Factsheet Agricultural R&D spending in Burkina Faso has followed a highly erratic pattern in recent years. The government funds research staff...
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Burkina Faso: Fiche d’information sur les indicateurs de la R&D agricole
Burkina Faso: Fiche d’information sur les indicateurs de la R&D agricole On observe une évolution très erratique des dépenses en R&D agricole au cours des dernières années. Les salaires des...
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Cape Verde: Agricultural R&D Indicators Factsheet
Cape Verde: ASTI Agricultural R&D Indicators Factsheet INIDA is the only agency involved in agricultural R&D in Cape Verde. Despite an increase in the number of MSc-qualified researchers in...
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The Gambia: Agricultural R&D Indicators Factsheet
Despite substantial fluctuations in yearly spending patterns, agricultural research spending in The Gambia rose by 25 percent during 2008–2011, primarily due to increased donor funding.As of 2011, only...
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Ghana: Agricultural R&D Indicators Factsheet
Public agricultural R&D spend-ing continued to increase during the 2008–2011 period. Growth was strongest at Ghana’s universities, although the CSIR institutes and CRIG also reported increases in...
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Guinea-Bissau: Agricultural R&D Indicators Factsheet
In 2011, Guinea-Bissau spent just 0.02 percent of its agricultural GDP on agricultural research—by far the lowest level in Africa (and the rest of the developing world).INPA is the nation’s only...
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Guiné-Bissau: Ficha Informativa de Indicadores de I&D Agrária
Em 2011 a Guiné-Bissau gastou apenas 0,02% do seu PIB agrário em investigação agrária — sendo de longe o nível mais baixo em África (e no resto dos países em desenvolvimento).O INPAé a única...
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Insurance versus savings: Risk management by gender
Farming households are vulnerable to many types of shocks, including weather-related events such as droughts and floods as well as health-related risks such as illness. A wide range of financial...
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Commercial banks’ response to government’s financial stimulus for improved...
This study (i) examines the implementation of recent agricultural finance policies and incentives associated with the Nigerian Incentive-based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL) and...
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