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November 7, 2016
Book: Confronting Drought in Africa’s Drylands: Opportunities for Enhancing Resilience
Drylands make up about 43 percent of the region’s land surface, account for about 75 percent of the area used
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October 24, 2016
Book: Innovation for inclusive value-chain development: Successes and challenges
The new book edited by a group of authors working with our Inclusive Value Chains and Efficient Trade research flagship talks about value-chain development
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October 18, 2016
International conference on Agri-Chains and Sustainable Development: Registration open
International conference on Agri-Chains and Sustainable Development: Linking local and global dynamics (AC&SD 2016) organized in Montpellier, France, on 12-14 December 2016, will
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October 17, 2016
Journal article: Big Numbers about Small Children: Estimating the Economic Benefits of Addressing Undernutrition
Different approaches have been used to estimate the economic benefits of reducing undernutrition and to estimate the costs of investing
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October 11, 2016
International conference on livestock value chain finance and access to credit: Call for abstracts
Improving the livelihoods of livestock smallholders and other value chain actors through livestock value addition and marketing is constrained by
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October 7, 2016
“As a wife I will help, manage, and love”: The value of qualitative research in understanding land tenure and gender in Ghana
In this post I argue that qualitative field work aiming at understanding the local context is not a frivolous activity.
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Newsletter
October 3, 2016
PIM Newsletter: July – September 2016
A quarterly overview of recent PIM happenings featuring a note from PIM director Karen Brooks, stories from PIM and our partners, EnGendering Data
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September 28, 2016
Publication: The Volunteer Farmer-Trainer Extension Approach: A User Guide
Extension services are delivered in a variety of forms, with the ultimate aim of changing farmers’ attitudes towards applying knowledge
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September 27, 2016
How can we measure technology adoption at scale?
A workshop titled "Innovative methods for measuring adoption of agricultural technologies: Establishing proof of concept and thinking about scaling up"
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