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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: Food security & Agriculture. The organization has 1217 authors who have published 4952 publications receiving 218436 citations.
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TL;DR: This work synthesizes the findings of 8 impact evaluations of agricultural projects and finds that jointly-owned assets are a significant part of asset portfolios and agricultural development projects should pay closer attention to asset ownership.
174 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the implications of large-scale investments in bio-fuels for growth and income distribution are assessed, and the authors find that bio-fuel investment enhances growth and poverty reduction despite some displacement of food crops by biofuels.
Abstract: This paper assesses the implications of large-scale investments in biofuels for growth and income distribution. We find that biofuels investment enhances growth and poverty reduction despite some displacement of food crops by biofuels. Overall, the biofuel investment trajectory analyzed increases Mozambique's annual economic growth by 0.6 percentage points and reduces the incidence of poverty by about 6 percentage points over a 12-year phase-in period. Benefits depend on production technology. An outgrower approach to producing biofuels is more pro-poor, due to the greater use of unskilled labor and accrual of land rents to smallholders, compared with the more capital-intensive plantation approach. Moreover, the benefits of outgrower schemes are enhanced if they result in technology spillovers to other crops. These results should not be taken as a green light for unrestrained biofuels development. Rather, they indicate that a carefully designed and managed biofuels policy holds the potential for substantial gains.
174 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the key components for the design and implementation of appropriate policies for enhancing sustainable development in less-favoured areas are discussed, focusing on the possibilities for simultaneously addressing poverty alleviation and sustainable natural resource management.
174 citations
TL;DR: This paper analyzes four gender myths and presents the kernel of truth underlying each myth, questions its underlying assumptions and implications, and examines how it hinders us from developing effective food security policies.
173 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors link recent production trends to household incomes using a regionalized, recursive dynamic computable general equilibrium and microsimulation model and find that accelerating agricultural growth, particularly in maize, strengthens the growth-poverty relationship and enhances households' caloric availability, while also contributing significantly to growth itself.
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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 |