Rural finance policies for food security of the poor [PDF]
The objective of IFPRI's multicountry research program on rural financial policies for food security of the poor is to identify policies and institutional arrangements that help the poor integrate themselves into sustainable savings and credit systems ...
Ahmed, Akhter U. +5 more
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Vulnerability to Hunger: Improving Food Crisis Responses in Fragile States [PDF]
The paper examines the imperative for improved classification and analysis of food crises in different fragile contexts. Recognizing the persistence and protracted nature of food crises, the paper questions how prevention and response mechanisms could be
Andrews, Colin, Flores, Margarita
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Synthesis report of workshop on assessing the impact of policy-oriented social science research in Scheveningen, The Netherlands, November 12-13 2001 [PDF]
Economists have engaged for some time in developing methodologies for assessing the economic impact of agricultural research and in undertaking empirical studies to measure this impact.
Ryan, James G.
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Construction of early childhood and ECCD service provisioning in India [PDF]
, 2011 There has been a growing recognition among scholars in childhood studies that childhood is a social construction. Several historical and cross-cultural studies conducted across the world validate this argument, and whereby explains the variability that ...
Aruldoss, Vinnarasan
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Can qualitative and quantitative methods serve complementary purposes for policy research? [PDF]
Qualitative and quantitative methods in social science research have long been separate spheres with little overlap. However, recent innovations have highlighted the complementarity of qualitative and quantitative approaches. The Accra Food and Nutrition
Maxwell, Daniel G.
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Poverty-lines versus the poor : method versus meaning [PDF]
poverty; measurement; methodology;
Saith, A.
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Philip Reid Payne, Professor of Nutrition, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (30 July 1928–9 January 2012) [PDF]
, 2012 Dowler, Elizabeth
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Nutrition prioritisation : three inter-dependent (mapping, methodology, and ethics) systematic review outputs [PDF]
, 2016 Bonn, Noémi +7 more
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Understanding Linkages among Food Availability, Access, Consumption, and Nutrition in Africa: Empirical Findings and Issues from the Literature [PDF]
This paper starts with the unsurprising observations that (1) having enough food available at national and local levels is necessary but not sufficient for ensuring that households have adequate access to food; (2) having adequate household access to ...
Diskin, Patrick K.
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Reference values for micronutrient intake and their derivation from micronutrient requirements. The effect of iron supply on neurodevelopment and immunity in infants, children, and adolescents [PDF]
, 2011 Hermoso Cristóbal, María
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