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International Food Policy Research Institute
Nonprofit•Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States•
About: International Food Policy Research Institute is a nonprofit organization based out in Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Agriculture & Food security. The organization has 1217 authors who have published 4952 publications receiving 218436 citations.
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research1, Wageningen University and Research Centre2, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory3, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign4, International Food Policy Research Institute5, National Institute for Environmental Studies6, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis7, Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics8, United States Department of Agriculture9, Food and Agriculture Organization10, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development11, Massachusetts Institute of Technology12
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a comparison of global agroeconomic models that have harmonized drivers of population, GDP, and biophysical yields, including four partial and six general equilibrium models that differ in how they model land supply and amount of potentially available land.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss information needs relating to resource management and policy support to guide the development of research planning for increasing the robustness of IGP food systems to Global Environmental Change (GEC), especially changes in climate mean values and variability.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the land management practices used in the highlands of Tigray, northern Ethiopia, the factors influencing them and their implications for crop production and income.
Abstract: This paper investigates the land management practices used in the highlands of Tigray, northern Ethiopia, the factors influencing them and their implications for crop production and income. Several factors commonly hypothesised to have a major impact on land management and agricultural production--including population pressure, small landholdings, access to roads and irrigation and extension and credit programmes--are found to have limited direct impact on crop production and income, though most affect the intensity of production. The increase in farming intensity due to these factors has limited impact on value of crop production and income due to low marginal product of labour in crop production, limited productivity impact of inputs such as fertiliser in the moisture-stressed environment of Tigray and limited adoption of such inputs. We find that profitable opportunities exist to increase agricultural production and achieve more sustainable land management in the highlands of Tigray. These opportunities include improvement of crop production using low-external input investments and practices such as stone terraces, reduced tillage and reduced burning. The comparative advantage of people in the Tigray highlands is apparently not in input-intensive cereal crop production but more in such low-input approaches and in alternative livelihood activities such as improved livestock management and non-farm activities. As a result, greater emphasis on developing these alternatives in agricultural extension--as the government of Tigray has been pursuing more recently with its extension programme--and other development programmes is needed. Food crop production should not be ignored in the development strategy, but more prudent use of external inputs such as fertiliser and improved seeds, and greater emphasis on low external input sustainable land management practices, would be helpful. Copyright 2008 The author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Centre for the Study of African Economies. All rights reserved. For permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org, Oxford University Press.
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TL;DR: The results confirm that combining climate and satellite data can achieve high performance of yield prediction at the SD level and find that using EVI as an input can achieve better performance in yield prediction than SIF, primarily due to the large noise in the satellite-based SIF data.
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TL;DR: In the context of a recent wave of new nationallyrepresentative household food consumption and expenditure surveys, the authors examines the estimation methodology underlying the food insecurity measure, which relies on national aggregate measures of food availability and distribution, and finds that the measure largely reflects national food availabilities and does not adequately capture people's ability to gain access to food.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Michael B. Zimmermann | 83 | 437 | 23563 |
Kenneth H. Brown | 79 | 353 | 23199 |
Thomas Reardon | 79 | 285 | 25458 |
Marie T. Ruel | 77 | 300 | 22862 |
John Hoddinott | 75 | 357 | 21372 |
Mark W. Rosegrant | 73 | 315 | 22194 |
Agnes R. Quisumbing | 72 | 311 | 18433 |
Johan F.M. Swinnen | 70 | 570 | 20039 |
Stefan Dercon | 69 | 259 | 17696 |
Jikun Huang | 69 | 430 | 18496 |
Gregory J. Seymour | 66 | 385 | 17744 |
Lawrence Haddad | 65 | 243 | 24931 |
Rebecca J. Stoltzfus | 61 | 224 | 13711 |
Ravi Kanbur | 61 | 498 | 19422 |
Ruth Meinzen-Dick | 61 | 237 | 13707 |