Gender inequalities in ownership and control of land in Africa Myths versus reality

Gender inequalities in ownership and control of land in Africa

Myths versus reality

Over the past decade, stakeholders have made a variety of generalized claims concerning women’s landownership, both globally and in Africa. Typically, these claims include statements with single statistics, such as “women own less than 2 percent of the world’s land” or “women own approximately 15 percent of land in Africa south of the Sahara.”

http://www.ifpri.org/sites/default/files/publications/ifpridp01308.pdf

Collection and marketing of high value medicinal and aromatic plants from district Swat, Pakistan

In 2012, existing practices in collecting and trading high value minor crops (such as medicinal and aromatic plants) from District Swat, Pakistan, were analyzed. The focus of the study was on the collection pattern of medicinal plants as an economic activity within District Swat and the likely destinations of these products in national or international markets. Local collectors/farmers and dealers were surveyed about their collection efforts, quantities collected, prices received, and resulting incomes. Herbal markets in major cities of Pakistan were surveyed for current market trends, domestic sources of supply, imports and exports of herbal material, price patterns, and market product-quality requirements.

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The National Health Insurance Scheme in Ghana

Implementation challenges and proposed solutions

Healthcare financing through social health insurance has become a very important tool in providing access to and utilization of health services in most developing countries such as Ghana. Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) is a promising tool for policymakers. Yet since its inception in 2003, few studies have assessed the scheme.

http://www.ifpri.org/sites/default/files/publications/ifpridp01309.pdf

Women’s empowerment in agriculture, production diversity, and nutrition

Evidence from Nepal

With the increasing recognition that agricultural growth and development do not necessarily translate into improved nutrition outcomes, policymakers are increasingly grappling with how to design and implement agricultural policies and programs that can also achieve nutritional objectives.

http://www.ifpri.org/sites/default/files/publications/ifpridp01313.pdf

Fertilizer in Ethiopia

An assessment of policies, value chain, and profitability

Fertilizer use in Ethiopia has almost quintupled since the official elimination of input subsidy programs. Yet, application rates remain far below recommended level and, given limited scope for area expansion, fertilizer promotion continues to be the central focus for enhancing agricultural productivity.

http://www.ifpri.org/sites/default/files/publications/ifpridp01304.pdf

The global landscape of poverty, food insecurity, and malnutrition and implications for agricultural development strategies

For many years poverty reduction was the overarching welfare objective of a wide range of development institutions and programs, particularly in the context of agricultural development. Yet in recent years the development community has increasingly set for itself more specific welfare objectives by distinguishing between monetary poverty, food security, nutrition and, most recently, resilience. This paper first outlines a basic framework for thinking about the relationships between these different concepts, and then explores the empirical relationships among different indicators of these concepts, and some of their potential determinants.

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