Petrra An Experiment In Pro Poor Agricultural Researc

Author : Behrman, Jere R.
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Policy-Oriented Research Impact Assessment (PORIA) case study on the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the Mexican PROGRESA anti-poverty and human resource investment conditional cash transfer program by Behrman, Jere R. Pdf

"The objective of this study is to attempt to characterize the influence and impact of IFPRI in relation to the Mexican PROGRESA/Oportunidades anti-poverty and human resource program with its conditional cash transfers (CCT)—conditional on specific investments in education, health, and nutrition. The paper first describes PROGRESA/Oportunidades and estimates of the impact and benefits-to-costs of this program; then discusses the challenges in assessing the influence and impact of IPRRI on and through PROGRESA/Oportunidades; and then presents the information sources used in this study to attempt to identify the influence and impact of IFPRI on PROGRESA/Oportunidades including interviews with 39 key informants as well as various published and unpublished studies and memos, publications in the popular media and on the internet and press releases and other documents. With this foundation it next explores the apparent influence and impact of IFPRI on PROGRESA/Oportunidades by considering four questions: Was the PROGRESA program design influenced by prior IFPRI research? Why was IFPRI chosen to undertake the initial impact evaluation of PROGRESA? How did the IFPRI evaluation of PROGRESA contribute to the program? Were there spillovers of the IFPRI evaluation of PROGRESA?

Author : Sebastian, Kate
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780896298460

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Atlas of African agriculture research and development by Sebastian, Kate Pdf

The Atlas of African Agriculture Research & Development is a multifaceted resource that high­lights the ubiquitous nature of smallholder agriculture in Africa; the many factors shaping the location, nature, and performance of agricultural enterprises; and the strong interde­pendencies among farming, natural resource stocks and flows, rural infrastructure, and the well-being of the poor.

Author : D. R. Coote,L. J. Gregorich,Canada. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. Research Branch
Publisher : Research Branch Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Nature
ISBN : UCLA:L0081538902

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The Health of Our Water by D. R. Coote,L. J. Gregorich,Canada. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. Research Branch Pdf

Using a variety of research findings and case studies, this publication provides a broad picture of water quality and quantity in Canada as they are affected by agriculture and as they affect agriculture itself. The first part contains background on the water cycle, water supplies in Canada, agriculture & other rural uses of water, and issues related to water quality. The second part describes what is currently known about the health of Canada's rural surface water and groundwater, and the implications for natural ecosystems. The third part describes responses to the various issues of water quality & quantity, citing farming practices and regulatory tools, among other measures. The final part discusses how the growth of agriculture may be limited by issues related to water and how the future might proceed. Includes glossary.

Author : Charles Rodgers and Petra J.G.J. Hellegers.
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Water Pricing and Valuation in Indonesia: Case Study of the Brantas River Basin by Charles Rodgers and Petra J.G.J. Hellegers. Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Power resources
ISBN : MSU:31293010868937

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Energy Research Abstracts by Anonim Pdf

Author : Petra Moser
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226779058

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Economics of Research and Innovation in Agriculture by Petra Moser Pdf

"The challenges facing agriculture are plenty. Along with the world's growing population and diminishing amounts of water and arable land, the gradual increase in severe weather presents new challenges and imperatives for producing new, more resilient crops to feed a more crowded planet in the twenty-first century. Innovation has historically helped agriculture keep pace with earth's social, population, and ecological changes. In the last 50 years, mechanical, biological, and chemical innovations have more than doubled agricultural output while barely changing input quantities. The ample investment behind these innovations was available because of a high rate of return: a 2007 paper found that the median ROI in agriculture was 45 percent between 1965 and 2005. This landscape has changed. Today many of the world's wealthier countries have scaled back their share of GDP devoted to agricultural R&D amid evidence of diminishing returns. Universities, which have historically been a major source of agricultural innovation, increasingly depend on funding from industry rather than government to fund their research. As Upton Sinclair wrote of the effects industry influences, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." In this volume of the NBER Conference Report series, editor Petra Moser offers an empirical, applied-economic framework to the different elements of agricultural R&D, particularly as they relate to the shift from public to private funding. Individual chapters examine the sources of agricultural knowledge and investigate challenges for measuring the returns to the adoption of new agricultural technologies, examine knowledge spillovers from universities to agricultural innovation, and explore interactions between university engagement and scientific productivity. Additional analysis of agricultural venture capital point to it as an emerging and future source of resource in this essential domain"--

Author : U.S. Office of Experiment Stations,United States. Agricultural Research Service,United States. Office of Experiment Stations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1146 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Agricultural experiment stations
ISBN : UOM:39015075062995

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Experiment Station Record by U.S. Office of Experiment Stations,United States. Agricultural Research Service,United States. Office of Experiment Stations Pdf

Author : Magalhaes, M.,Ringler, C.,Verma, Shilp,Schmitter, Petra
Publisher : International Water Management Institute (IWMI). CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE).
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-02
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789290909354

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Accelerating rural energy access for agricultural transformation by Magalhaes, M.,Ringler, C.,Verma, Shilp,Schmitter, Petra Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 984 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Power resources
ISBN : OSU:32435021070008

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Energy Research Abstracts by Anonim Pdf

Author : Dragana Miladinović,Johann Vollmann,Leire Molinero-Ruiz,Mariela Torres
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9782889630684

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Advances in Oil Crops Research – Classical and New Approaches to Achieve Sustainable Productivity by Dragana Miladinović,Johann Vollmann,Leire Molinero-Ruiz,Mariela Torres Pdf

Author : Irene Ring,Bernd Klauer,Frank Wätzold,Bengt A. Mansson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783642586835

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Regional Sustainability by Irene Ring,Bernd Klauer,Frank Wätzold,Bengt A. Mansson Pdf

This book presents interdisciplinary approaches towards achieving regional sustainability. The relevance of interdisciplinary research and its consequences for economic research into the environment are elaborated, and new approaches are developed to integrate knowledge from ecological and social sciences into economic research. Regional Sustainability includes the development of theoretical concepts as well as applied regional case studies relating to nature conservation and agricultural policies, coastal management and air pollution problems. Centered around the themes of decision-making processes, modelling as support for policy analysis and the evaluation of policies, it successfully addresses problems facing researchers and policy-makers in the context of regional sustainable development. The book pays special attention to human behaviour and stakeholders in decision-making processes, and contributes to the transition from ecological economics to socio-ecological economics.

Author : Dr. José Martí-Parreño ,Dr. Roberto Gómez-Calvet ,Dr. Javier Muñoz de Prat
Publisher : Academic Conferences and publishing limited
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781912764556

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ICTR 2020 3rd International Conference on Tourism Research by Dr. José Martí-Parreño ,Dr. Roberto Gómez-Calvet ,Dr. Javier Muñoz de Prat Pdf

Author : World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007-10-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821368095

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World Development Report 2008 by World Bank Pdf

The world's demand for food is expected to double within the next 50 years, while the natural resources that sustain agriculture will become increasingly scarce, degraded, and vulnerable to the effects of climate change. In many poor countries, agriculture accounts for at least 40 percent of GDP and 80 percent of employment. At the same time, about 70 percent of the world's poor live in rural areas and most depend on agriculture for their livelihoods. 'World Development Report 2008' seeks to assess where, when, and how agriculture can be an effective instrument for economic development, especially development that favors the poor. It examines several broad questions: How has agriculture changed in developing countries in the past 20 years? What are the important new challenges and opportunities for agriculture? Which new sources of agricultural growth can be captured cost effectively in particular in poor countries with large agricultural sectors as in Africa? How can agricultural growth be made more effective for poverty reduction? How can governments facilitate the transition of large populations out of agriculture, without simply transferring the burden of rural poverty to urban areas? How can the natural resource endowment for agriculture be protected? How can agriculture's negative environmental effects be contained? This year's report marks the 30th year the World Bank has been publishing the 'World Development Report'.

Author : Paul Glewwe,Petra Todd
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464814983

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Impact Evaluation in International Development by Paul Glewwe,Petra Todd Pdf

Impact evaluations are studies that attempt to measure the causal impact of a project, program or policy on one or more outcomes of. This book provides a comprehensive exposition of how to conduct impact evaluations. Part I provides an overview of impact evaluations and comprises five chapters which are accessible to readers who have few or none of the technical (statistical and econometric) skills that are needed to conduct impact evaluations. Parts II and III make use of statistical and econometric methods and are at a level similar to a graduate-student course but written to make them accessible to the ambitious reader whose skills are not at that level. Part II presents, in Chapters 6-10, a comprehensive discussion of the use of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to conduct impact evaluations, including a general discussion of the ethical issues involved in conducting impact evaluations. Part III presents the main non-experimental methods that are used to implement impact evaluations when RCTs are not feasible or not recommended for other reasons. Chapters 11 and 12 present regression methods, including difference-in-differences estimation. Matching methods are described in Chapter 13, after which regression discontinuity methods are covered in Chapter 14. Instrumental variable methods, including the estimation of local average treatment effects (LATE), are discussed in detail in Chapter 15. Chapters 16 and 17 cover more advanced topics: quantile treatment effects and control function methods, respectively. Part IV then considers more practical issues when conducting impact evaluations, including designing questionnaires (Chapter 18), data collection methods and survey management (Chapters 19 and 20), and disseminating results to policymakers (Chapter 21). Finally, Part V addresses two topics in impact evaluation: qualitative methods for conducting impact evaluations (Chapter 22), and cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis (Chapter 23).

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1444 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : MINN:31951D00283342M

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Priorities in Agricultural Research of the U.S. Department of Agriculture by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure Pdf