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The new IFPRI discussion paper reviews the literature on women's land rights (WLR) and poverty reduction. It adapts the Gender, Agriculture and Assets Project (GAAP) conceptual framework to identify pathways by which WLR could reduce poverty and increase wellbeing of women and their households in rural areas.
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The recent report by the Global Futures and Strategic Foresight team (part of PIM's research flagship 1) seeks to help the CGIAR centers and research programs, as well as donors and other decision makers assess the overall impact and benefits of investing in international and national agricultural research programs.
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Since the early 2000’s, practitioners and researchers have been working on ways to design market-oriented development interventions with smallholders. Many
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The paper presents the abbreviated version of the WEAI, summarizing the modifications to the original index and discussing possibilities for further development of empowerment metrics based on the WEAI.
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Many agricultural development programs are ideally positioned to support the widespread adoption of “sustainable intensification” technologies and management practices. While
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Participation in household decisions and control over assets are often used as indicators of bargaining power. Yet spouses do not
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“Agricultural (research) programs without rigorous impact evaluation tend to focus on rapid testing (and rollout) of technologies with high-probability adopters
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Adoption of new technologies depends significantly on whether potential users are willing to pay a premium for the associated benefits. The
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Rapidly expanding global trade in the past three decades has lifted millions out of people out of poverty. Trade has