Declining agricultural research budgets coupled with worsening poverty have increasingly required formal priority setting of public agricultural research in developing countries to ensure that scarce research resources are allocated in ways that will have the greatest impact on the poor. This pap...
Alene, Arega D.
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Manyong, Victor M.
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Tollens, E.F.
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Abele, S.
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[Setting strategic agricultural research priorities based on potential impacts on poverty reduction: the case of Nigeria]
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Setting strategic agricultural research priorities based on potential impacts on poverty reduction: the case of Nigeria
While it is widely recognized that agricultural research is a key driver of broad-based technological change in agriculture that benefits the poor in many different ways, little is known about its aggregate impacts on productivity growth and poverty reduction in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Using a ...
Alene, Arega D.
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Coulibaly, O.
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[The impact of agricultural research on productivity and poverty in subSaharan Africa]
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The impact of agricultural research on productivity and poverty in subSaharan Africa
On the basis of projected economic and poverty impacts of alternative commodity research programs, this article assessed efficiency and equitytradeoffs and the scope for research resource reallocation in Nigeria. Given the importance of major food staples to both poor and non...
Alene, Arega D.
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Manyong, Victor M.
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Tollens, E.F.
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Abele, S.
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[Efficiencyequity tradeoffs and the scope for resource reallocation in agricultural research: evidence from Nigeria]
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Efficiencyequity tradeoffs and the scope for resource reallocation in agricultural research: evidence from Nigeria
Growing concern for poverty in the face of declining agricultural research budgets has increasingly required formal priority setting of public agricultural research in developing countries to ensure that scarce research resources are allocated in ways that will have the greatest impact on the poo...
Alene, A.
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Manyong, Victor M.
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Tollens, E.F.
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Abele, S.
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[Targeting agricultural research based on potential impacts on poverty reduction: strategic program priorities by agroecological zone in Nigeria]
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Targeting agricultural research based on potential impacts on poverty reduction: strategic program priorities by agroecological zone in Nigeria
United Nations Environment Programme
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United Nations Development Programme
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[Environment and Poverty Reduction in Rwanda: An Assessment]
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Environment and Poverty Reduction in Rwanda: An Assessment
Bass, Steve
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Renard, Yves
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[Evaluation of the UNDP-UNEP Poverty-Environment Initiative (PEI) Partnership with Norway 2004-2008: Report to Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs]
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Evaluation of the UNDP-UNEP Poverty-Environment Initiative (PEI) Partnership with Norway 2004-2008: Report to Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Arguing that agroforestry associations are important for biodiversity conservation, certification schemes are seeking to differentiate commodities on the basis of the biodiversity included in the cropping system, in order to financially encourage more“wildlife friendly” production systems through...
Gockowski, J.
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Tchatat, M.
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Dondjang, J.P.
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Hietet, G.
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Fouda, T.
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[An empirical analysis of the biodiversity and economic returns to cocoa agroforests in southern Cameroon]
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An empirical analysis of the biodiversity and economic returns to cocoa agroforests in southern Cameroon
The changes in household income result in a rapid shift in composition of food demanded by the food-secure and food-insecure households. In this paper, we applied popular AIDS model to estimate the budget shares and determinant factors of demand for different food groups. The analysis of food sec...
Ogundapo, A.T.
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Manyong, Victor M.
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Kormawa, P.M.
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Fabiyi, Y.
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[Household expenditure patterns in the rural areas of Oyo State, Nigeria: evidence of rural households vulnerability to food insecurity]
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Household expenditure patterns in the rural areas of Oyo State, Nigeria: evidence of rural households vulnerability to food insecurity
This study analyzes growth options in agricultural sub-sectors to accelerate overall economic growth and reduce poverty in Nigeria in the next nine years (2009-17) using an economy-wide, dynamic computable general equilibrium (DCGE) model. The model results show that if the individual agricultura...
Diao, X.
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Nwafor, M.
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Alpuerto, V.
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[Options for Agricultural Growth for Poverty Reduction in Nigeria]
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Options for Agricultural Growth for Poverty Reduction in Nigeria