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    A hands‐on social networking tool: Net‐Map
    Complex policy problems call for complex solutions that require the involvement of multiple stakeholders. For example, both developing and developed countries have instituted multi-stakeholder water governance bodies on local, national, and ...
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    ASARECA and WECARD/CORAF
    Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) remains the only region of the world where food insecurity and malnutrition are growing. It is estimated that 50-60 percent of the countries will fail to achieve the hunger and poverty targets of the Millennium ...
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    Building Ghana’s capacity to overcome poverty
    The Ghana Strategic Support Program (GSSP) is a research, communications, and capacity-strengthening program designed to build the capabilities of researchers, administrators, policymakers, and members of civil society in Ghana so that they are ...
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    Collaborative Master's Program of Science in Agricultural and Applied Economics
    In 2004 IFPRI and two partners, the Eastern and Central Africa Programme for Agricultural Policy Analysis (ECAPAPA) and the African Economics Research Consortium (AERC), launched the Collaborative Master’s Program of Science in Agricultural ...
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    Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP)
    The Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) is an African Union/New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) initiative to accelerate growth and reduce poverty and hunger in Africa. CAADP’s primary goal is ...
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    Ethiopian Commodity Exchange
    Ethiopia’s market reforms of the 1990s did not have the intended impact on agricultural growth and poverty reduction. Market constraints like high transaction costs limited the markets’ potential to catalyze production and growth and ...
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    Fadama II
    In 2005, the Nigerian government launched Fadama II, a World Bank-funded project intended to increase the income of farmers, fishers, and other poor people in the low-lying floodplains, or fadama areas, where poverty is concentrated. The project ...
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    Food Price Crisis: IFPRI’s response and influence
    While they have since gone down slightly, global food prices rose significantly from 2007‐08,with some agricultural commodities even doubling in price. The consequences of the sudden rapid rise in food prices have been particularly severe for the ...
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    Global Hunger Index
    Countries can gauge their economic performance by looking at gross domestic product, but to assess their progress on fighting hunger, they must usually consider a multitude of indicators. To provide a simple way of ranking countries and ...
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    Greater access to rich countries’ markets reduces poverty
    IFPRI’s agricultural trade liberalization work on the WTO’s Doha Negotiations has resulted in approximately 70 publications since 2004. IFPRI ex-ante impact assessment discussion paper #28 in 2008 by external evaluator Joanna Hewitt (“Impact ...
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    Making the case for biosafety in Africa
    The Program for Biosafety Systems (PBS) is an IFPRI‐managed program that supports countries in Africa and Asia in the responsible development and safe use of agricultural biotechnology. PBS effectively addresses biosafety through an integrated ...
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    Preschool nutrition increases economic productivity, incomes and human capital
    An ongoing IFPRI project is assessing the long-term impact of investing in preschool nutrition and the long-term costs of failing to do so. The project includes work in many countries, including the two studies—one in Guatemala and one in ...
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    Prevention or Cure
    A study in Haiti conducted by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and Cornell University, in conjunction with World Vision, compared the impact on childhood nutrition of two World Vision programs providing food assistance and ...
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    Public Investment Strategies
    As policymakers decide how to allocate public spending to achieve higher growth and poverty reduction, they need accurate information to provide a clear understanding of how public investments translate into development outcomes. To help meet ...
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    Realigning Pakistan's position towards pro‐poor trade
    Rural poverty in Pakistan increased during the late 1990s after having declined in the 1980s and early 90s. One hypothesis suggests that this shift was caused by the downward trend in world commodity prices, including agricultural commodities ...
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    Regional Network on HIV/AIDS, Rural Livelihoods, and Food Security
    The Regional Network on HIV/AIDS, Rural Livelihoods, and Food Security (RENEWAL) was launched in 2001. Facilitated by IFPRI, RENEWAL is a growing regional network-of-networks. Currently active in Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Uganda, and Zambia, ...