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Tapping Potentials of Innovation for African Food Security and Sustainable Agricultural Growth: an Africa-wide Perspective
Husmann, Christine; von Braun, Joachim; Badiane, Ousmane; Akinbamijo, Yemi; Fatunbi, Oluwole A.; Virchow, Detlef (2015-09)While in the past, increased use of inputs and expansion of agricultural land accounted for a good part of agricultural growth in Africa, improvements in productivity will need to be a major driver of growth in the future. ... -
Targeting Small-Scale Irrigation Investments using Agent-Based Modeling: Case Studies in Mali and Niger
Olayide, Olawale E.; Sangare, Saadatou A.; Koo, Jawoo; Xie, Hua (2020-10)Small-scale irrigation has been identified as a potential adaptation strategy for climate change and boosting food security and livelihoods in dry regions. This study presents the analysis of the potential adoption of ... -
Technologies and infrastructure to reduce the work burden of women: Insights from time-use studies in Ethiopia, Ghana and Uganda
Saleemi, Sundus; Getahun, Tigabu D.; Mekonnen, Jemberu L.; Asante, Felix A.; Awo, Martha A.; Bonzo, Benjamin B.; Sam, Ralph; Isoto, Rosemary E.; Nakamatte, Irene; Bashaasha, Bernard (2024-06)Gender and social norms in African countries result in a greater share of overall work on women than men. Notably, women and girls across the globe undertake a greater share of unpaid domestic and care work than men. This ... -
Temporary migration decisions and effects on household income and diets in rural Bangladesh
Rana, Sohel; Faye, Amy; Qaim, Matin (2024-05)Temporary migration is a widely observed phenomenon among poor rural households, mostly related to agricultural seasonality. However, household preferences for temporary migration in comparison to longer-term migration, ... -
Ten years Euro-Mediterranean partnership: defining European interests for the next decade
Calleya, Stephen; Ortega, Martin; Marchetti, Andreas; Michalek, Jan J.; Kühnhardt, Ludger (2005)In November 2005, the European Union and its Mediterranean partners celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (EMP) that was initiated in Barcelona in 1995. Whereas in the beginning, the so-called ... -
Territory, border, infrastructure: Imagining and crafting national borderlands in twentieth century China
Kinzley, Judd; Joniak-Lüthi, Agnieszka (2016-12) -
Testing the mHM-MPR Reliability for Parameter Transferability across Locations in North–Central Nigeria
Ogbu, Kingsley Nnaemeka; Rakovec, Oldrich; Shrestha, Pallav Kumar; Samaniego, Luis; Tischbein, Bernhard; Meresa, Hadush (2022-09-02)Hydrologic modeling in Nigeria is plagued by non-existent or paucity of hydro-metrological/morphological records, which has detrimental impacts on sustainable water resource management and agricultural production. Nowadays, ... -
The analytics of seasonal migration
Stark, Oded; Fan, C. Simon (2007-03)A framework that yields different possible patterns of migration as optimal solutions to a simple utility maximization problem is presented and explored. It is shown that seasonal migration arises as an optimal endogenous ... -
The Anxiety of Development: Megaprojects and the Politics of Place in Gwadar, Pakistan
Jamali, Hafeez A. (2013-01)This working paper explores the social geography of anticipation, desire, exclusion, and control that has emerged as a result of Baloch fishermen’s entanglement with the Pakistani government’s plans to develop a large ... -
The Bioeconomy and Food Systems Transformation: Food Systems Summit Brief prepared by Research Partners of the Scientific Group for the Food Systems Summit February 17, 2021
Trigo, Eduardo; Chavarria, Hugo; Pray, Carl; Smyth, Stuart J.; Torroba, Agustin; Wesseler, Justus; Zilberman, David; Martinez, Juan F. (2021-04-17)The most widely recognized definition of bioeconomy was proposed in the Global Bioeconomy Summit 2018 framework: “bioeconomy is the production, utilization and conservation of biological resources, including related ... -
The brain drain, "educated unemployment", human capital formation, and economic betterment
Stark, Oded; Fan, C. Simon (2007-07)Extending both the “harmful brain drain” literature and the “beneficial brain gain” literature, this paper analyzes both the negative and the positive impact of migration by skilled individuals in a unified framework. The ... -
The Changing Drivers of Food Inflation – Macroeconomics, Inflation, and War
Algieri, Bernardina; Kornher, Lukas; von Braun, Joachim (2024-02)The inflation surge in recent years is having profound social, economic, and political consequences. In particular, food price increases strongly affect low-income segments of the population. What makes this period so ... -
The demand for gratitude as a restraint on the use of child labor: A hypothesis
Stark, Oded; Budzinski, Wiktor (2021-12)We study a parent’s demand for gratitude from his child. We view this demand as an intervening variable between the parent’s earnings and the incidence of child labor. The demand for gratitude arises from the desire of a ... -
The economics of desertification, land degradation, and drought: Toward an integrated global assessment
Nkonya, Ephraim; Gerber, Nicolas; Baumgartner, Philipp; von Braun, Joachim; De Pinto, Alex; Graw, Valerie; Kato, Edward; Kloos, Julia; Walter, Teresa (2011-05) -
The effect of aspirations on agricultural innovations in rural Ethiopia
Mekonnen, Daniel Ayalew; Gerber, Nicolas (2016-05)This paper identifies the effect of aspirations on the adoption of agricultural innovations in the context of rural Ethiopia. While most studies on agricultural innovations have focused on identifying observable and ... -
The effect of industrial cluster policy on firm performance in Ethiopia: Evidence from the leather footware cluster
Getahun, Tigabu Degu (2016-01)This paper empirically analyzes the productivity, profitability, innovation and network effects of a public policy promoting micro and small scale industrial clusters in Ethiopia. To this end, firm-level survey data was ... -
The effects of the Dutch disease in Russia
Algieri, Bernardina (2004-01)This paper shows how the Dutch Disease has affected the Russian economy since the start of the transition in the early 1990s. Four symptoms have been detected, namely: 1) a real exchange rate appreciation, 2) a temporary ... -
The elusive productivity effect of trade liberalization in the manufacturing industries of emerging economies
Abegaz, Berhanu; Basu, Arnab K. (2010-10)Using a model that admits variable returns and imperfect competition, we investigate the impact on total factor productivity of trade liberalization in six emerging economies. Regressions based on panel data for 28 three-digit ... -
The evolving role of farm and off-farm jobs in rural Africa
Mutsami, Chrispinus; Parlasca, Martin C.; Qaim, Matin (2024-06)Livelihood sources in rural Africa are diverse and dynamic. Using recent primary data from four African countries — Kenya, Namibia, Tanzania, and Zambia — we consider regions with different conditions related to climate, ... -
The global cropland footprint of the non-food bioeconomy
Bruckner, Martin; Giljum, Stefan; Fischer, Günther; Tramberend, Sylvia; Börner, Jan (2018-04)A rapidly growing share of global agricultural areas is devoted to the production of biomass for non-food purposes. The derived products include, for example, biofuels, textiles, detergents or cosmetics. Given the far-reaching ...