International Food Policy Research Institute

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an analysis of credit rationing by informal lenders and by members of community-based groups that allocate formal group loans among themselves, showing that group members are able to obtain and to use locally available information about the applicant's creditworthiness.

TL;DR: In this article, a wide range of calorie-income elasticities in the literature results, in large part, from the particular calorie and income variables used for estimation, and the preferred elasticity estimate in the 0.08-0.14 range.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the large, dam-based and small-scale irrigation investment potential in Africa based on agronomic, hydrologic, and economic factors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed the trends in government subsidies and investments in and for Indian agriculture and developed a conceptual framework and a model to assess the impact of various subsidies on agricultural growth and poverty reduction; and presented reform options with regard to reprioritizing government spending.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine how the shift from customary tenure systems to private property has affected women, the effect of gender differences in property on collective action, and the implications for project design.