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Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2003
Eastern Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa, Kenya
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Peer-reviewed publicationReports & ResearchDecember, 2002South America, BrazilSince the 1970s, federal policies promoting migration and encouraging agricultural development of large farms, logging, and ranching have led to the deforestation of vast areas of the Amazon rainforest.Though these policies have largely been replaced, deforestation continues. What effects do current macroeconomic and regional policies and events have on deforestation and on the well-being of settlers on the agricultural frontier?
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getting the priorities and responsibilities right
Peer-reviewed publicationJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2002"As part of its 2020 Vision for Food, Agriculture, and the Environment Initiative, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) has articulated a vision of what the world should look like in 2020: it should be a world free from poverty, hunger, malnutrition, and unsustainable natural resource management.
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a comparative study of agrarian communities in Africa and Asia
Policy Papers & BriefsDecember, 2001South-Eastern Asia, Asia, Africa, VietnamThe devastating environmental effects of deforestation and the exploitation of other natural resources in the developing world have been well documented, yet their impact on local communities has received far less attention. This report looks at how land degradation and deforestation are being addressed at the local level, where households have experienced the reduction of farm size and the decline of natural resources. Through a comparison of Asia and Africa, the evolution of land tenure institutions within diverse cultural, natural, and policy environments is examined.
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evolution of land tenure institutions in Western Ghana and Sumatra
Peer-reviewed publicationReports & ResearchDecember, 2001Western Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, South-Eastern Asia, Africa, Asia, Ghana, IndonesiaThis research report examines three questions that are central to IFPRI research: How do property-rights institutions affect efficiency and equity? How are resources allocated within households? Why does this matter from a policy perspective? As part of a larger multicountry study on property rights to land and trees, this study focuses on the evolution from customary land tenure with communal ownership toward individualized rights, and how this shift affects women and men differently.This study’s key contribution is its multilevel econometric analysis of efficiency and equity issues.
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a case study from rural Nepal, 1982 to 1997
Policy Papers & BriefsDecember, 2000Southern Asia, NepalThis study explores the impact of changes in environmental conditions on intrahousehold labor allocation to the collection of environmental goods such as fuelwood and leaf fodder for a sample of rural Nepali households. Using household-level panel data collected in 1982 and 1997, the study finds that household collection time significantly increases with measures of environmental resource scarcity, and that the increase appears to come almost equally from men and women.
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a threat to developing-country food security by 2020?
Policy Papers & BriefsDecember, 1999Global population in the year 2020 will be a third higher than in 1995, but demand for food and fiber will rise by an even higher proportion, as incomes grow, diets diversify, and urbanization accelerates. However this demand is met, population and farming pressure on land resources will intensify greatly. There is growing concern in some quarters that a decline in long-term soil productivity is already seriously limiting food production in the developing world, and that the problem is getting worse. Sarah Sherr first focuses on the magnitude and effects of soil degradation.
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Policy Papers & BriefsDecember, 2004Eastern Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa, UgandaThe government of Uganda, with help from its development partners, is designing and implementing policies and strategies to address poverty, land degradation, and declining agricultural productivity. Land degradation, especially soil erosion and depletion of soil nutrients, is widespread in Uganda and contributes to declining productivity, which in turn increases poverty.
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A level playing field for farmers (Feature article)
Institutional & promotional materialsDecember, 2003Americas, Central America, Africa -
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An economywide, multimarket model assessment
Policy Papers & BriefsDecember, 2007Western Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa, Ghana"An economywide, multimarket model is constructed for Ghana and the effects of agricultural soil erosion on crop yields are explicitly modeled at the subnational regional level for eight main staple crops. The model is used to evaluate the aggregate economic costs of soil erosion by taking into account economywide linkages between production and consumption, across sectors and agricultural subsectors... Sustainable land management (SLM) is the key to reducing agricultural soil loss.
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