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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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TL;DR: This paper comprehensively maps existing evidence along agriculture–nutrition pathways in India and presents a conceptual framework delineating six key pathways between agriculture and nutrition, including three pathways pertain to the nutritional impacts of farm production, farm incomes, and food prices.
Abstract: In India, progress against undernutrition has been slow. Given its importance for income generation, improving diets, care practices, and maternal health, the agriculture sector is widely regarded as playing an important role in accelerating the reduction in undernutrition. This paper comprehensively maps existing evidence along agriculture-nutrition pathways in India and assesses both the quality and coverage of the existing literature. We present a conceptual framework delineating six key pathways between agriculture and nutrition. Three pathways pertain to the nutritional impacts of farm production, farm incomes, and food prices. The other three pertain to agriculture-gender linkages. After an extensive search, we found 78 research papers that provided evidence to populate these pathways. The literature suggests that Indian agriculture has a range of important influences on nutrition. Agriculture seems to influence diets even when controlling for income, and relative food prices could partly explain observed dietary changes in recent decades. The evidence on agriculture-gender linkages to nutrition is relatively weak. Sizeable knowledge gaps remain. The root causes of these gaps include an interdisciplinary disconnect between nutrition and economics/agriculture, a related problem of inadequate survey data, and limited policy-driven experimentation. Closing these gaps is essential to strengthening the agriculture sector's contribution to reducing undernutrition.
208 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the interactions between gender, social capital and information exchange in rural Uganda and found that men generally have better access to social capital than women, while women tend to have higher levels of social capital.
Abstract: Changing agricultural research and extension systems mean that informal mechanisms of information diffusion are often the primary source of information about improved seed and practices for farmers in sub-Saharan Africa. This paper investigates the interactions between gender, social capital and information exchange in rural Uganda. Within the framework of farmer-to-farmer models, we conceptualise the informal information diffusion process to comprise social capital accumulation and information exchange. We assume that each agent participates in information exchange with a fixed (predetermined) level of social capital and examine how endowments of social capital influence information exchange, paying close attention to gender differences. A multinomial logit model is used to analyse multiple participation choices of information exchange facing the farmer. Findings demonstrate that social capital is an important factor in information exchange, with men generally having better access to social capital than women. We also find strong evidence in support of group-based technology dissemination systems. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
208 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed whether politics affected voucher allocations in Ghana's 2008 fertilizer subsidy program and found that more vouchers were targeted to districts that the ruling party had lost in the previous presidential elections and more so in districts that had been lost by a higher percentage margin.
207 citations
TL;DR: In this article, it is demonstrated that transportation costs explain most of the differences in food prices between producer regions and that road quality is an important factor in the transportation costs, while food prices decrease relatively faster than transportation costs increase and traders' wages are higher on bad roads.
207 citations
TL;DR: Agrekon et al. as discussed by the authors discussed the role of VERTICAL and MARKETERS of high value-added items in small-home agriculture. But their focus was on smallholder farmers.
Abstract: (1999). SOURCES OF GROWTH IN SMALLHOLDER AGRICULTURE INTEGRATION OF SMALLHOLDERS WITH PROCESSORS IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: THE ROLE OF VERTICAL AND MARKETERS OF HIGH VALUE-ADDED ITEMS. Agrekon: Vol. 38, No. sup001, pp. 165-189.
206 citations
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| Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |