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| Thornton, Philip K.; Jones, Peter G.; Owiyo, Tom; Kruska, Russell L.; Herrero, Mario; Orindi, Victor; Bhadwal, Suruchi; Kristjanson, Patricia; Notenbaert, An; Bekele, Nigat; Omolo, Abisalom. |
| Climate change and increasing climate variability threaten the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), and some of the worst effects on human health and agriculture will be in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly in vulnerable regions. The relationships between climate change and the vulnerability of resource-poor croppers and livestock keepers and their resilience to current and future climate variability need to be better understood. This paper describes the generation of information that combines projected climate change in agricultural systems with vulnerability data. The results of the analysis, in terms of vulnerable people particularly at risk for deleterious effects of climate change, are being used for impact assessment, targeting and... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Agricultural system; Vulnerability; Targeting; Impact assessment; Poverty; Food Security and Poverty; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/56966 |
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| Ragona, Maddalena; Mazzocchi, Mario. |
| Together with a call for more effective and efficient regulations in the EU, there is a growing demand for transparency in the evaluation methods used to assess their effects. This paper proposes a classification of the impacts that food safety regulations can produce and discusses the quantitative methods that are used in the literature to measure those impacts. Along with the strengths and limitations of each methodological approach, this review highlights other transversal issues relevant when developing assessment strategies, like the unbalance between ex-ante and ex-post evaluation, the lack of adequate data, the difficulty of estimating the dynamic effects of regulations, and the possibility of endogenous relationships. |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Impact assessment; Food safety regulation; Quantitative methods; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/43864 |
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| Pender, John L.; Suyanto, S.; Kerr, John M.; Kato, Edward. |
| This paper investigates the impacts of a social forestry program in Indonesia, Hutan Kamasyarakatan (HKm), based on analysis of a survey of 640 HKm and comparable non-HKm plots in the Sumberjaya watershed of southern Sumatra, and of the households operating those plots. The HKm program provides groups of farmers with secure-tenure permits to continue farming on state Protection Forest land and in exchange for protecting remaining natural forestland, planting multistrata agroforests, and using recommended soil and water conservation (SWC) measures on their coffee plantations. Using farmers’ perceptions, econometric techniques, and propensity score matching, we investigated the impacts of the HKm program on perceived land tenure security, land purchase... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Rewards for environmental services; Land tenure contracts; Social forestry; Indonesia; Impact assessment; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/42321 |
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| Gunaratna, Nilupa S.; De Groote, Hugo; McCabe, G.P.. |
| Biofortification, or the genetic improvement of the nutritional quality of food crops, is a promising strategy to combat undernutrition, particularly among the rural poor in developing countries. However, traditional methods of impact assessment do not apply to biofortified crops as little or no yield increases are expected. Significant progress has been made to develop maize varieties with improved protein quality, collectively known as quality protein maize (QPM). Evidence for the impact of QPM at the community level, as demonstrated by randomized, controlled studies, was evaluated using meta-analysis. A new and generalizable effect size was proposed to quantify the impact of QPM on a key outcome, child growth. The results indicated that consumption of... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Impact assessment; Biofortification; Meta-analysis; Crop Production/Industries; Food Security and Poverty. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/44166 |
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| Shaffer, Paul; Kanbur, Ravi; Hang, Nguyen Thu; Aryeetey, Ellen Bortei-Doku. |
| This introductory essay for the journal Symposium presents an overview of issues related to ‘Q-Squared in Policy: the use of qualitative and quantitative methods of poverty analysis in decision-making’. We focus on issues raised on the supply side of data use, relating, inter alia to the informational content and policy usefulness of different types of data and analysis. These issues are grouped under the headings of: outcomes vs. processes, unpacking processes and thick and thin. We begin however, with a brief discussion of one aspect of the demand side, namely the politics of data use, given its centrality to the issues at hand. |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Poverty; Methods; Mixed method research; Policy process; Methodological pluralism; Impact assessment; International Relations/Trade; Political Economy. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/48919 |
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| Mullen, John D.. |
| Mullen (2004,2005) conducted an impact assessment of two ACIAR funded economics research projects enquiring into domestic grain market reform in China. The benefit cost ratio to ACIAR was estimated to be in the range 5:1 to 33:1. The impact assessment was conducted when grain policy was viewed as being in a period of retrenchment rather than reform and hence the assessment was ex ante in nature. Since then the methodology for estimating nominal rates of assistance in China has been modified and the late 90s is now seen as a period when reform continued despite the professed policy stance. It seems opportune to revisit Mullen’s original impact assessment to assess the extent of welfare gains actually achieved. |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Impact assessment; China grain market reform; Welfare analysis. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/48031 |
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