Author: Felix NwekePublisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Controlling cassava mosaic virus and cassava mealybug in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author: Felix NwekePublisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Cassava
Author: R. J. HillocksPublisher: CABI
ISBN: 9780851998831
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Cassava is a major tropical tuber crop found throughout the tropics (India, Oceania, Africa and Latin America). Hitherto, there has been no single text covering all aspects of cassava biology, production and utilization. This book fills that gap, representing the first comprehensive research level overview of this main staple crop. Chapters are written by leading experts in this field from all continents. The book is suitable for those working and researching in cassava, in both developed and developing countries, as well as advanced students.
Cassava in Tropical Africa
Author: International Institute of Tropical AgriculturePublisher: IITA
ISBN: 9781310413
Category : Cassava
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Intended as both an instructional and a reference tool, the volume covers the production and postharvest treatment of cassava. The first part describes production constraints including pests , diseases, weeds, soils agronomic factors, and socioeconomic considerations. In part two, plant morphology, plant physiology and plant breeding are related to yields and diseases resistance. Part three covers postharvest treatment and part four describes cassava research. A bibliography of recommended reading is included.
Preemptive management of the virulent cassava mosaic disease through an integrated cassava development approach for enhanced rural sector economy in the south-south and south east zones of Nigeria: multiple investor development project document
Author: Private sector responses to public investments and policy reforms: The case of fertilizer and maize market development in Kenya
Author: Joshua Ariga, T. S. JaynePublisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Land-tenure policy reforms: Decollectivization and the Doi Moi system in Vietnam
Author: Michael Kirk, Nguyen Do Anh TuanPublisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Improving diet quality and micronutrient nutrition: Homestead food production in Bangladesh
Author: Lora Iannotti, Kenda Cunningham, Marie RuelPublisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
The mungbean transformation diversifying crops, defeating malnutrition
Author: Subramanyam Shanmugasundaram, J.D.H. Keatinge, Jacqueline dArros HughesPublisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Rural and urban linkages: Operation floods role in Indias dairy development
Author: Kenda CunninghamPublisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Between 1970 and 2009, India has overcome many infrastructural, market, and institutional challenges to transition from a dairy importing nation to the top producer in the world of both buffalo and goat milk, as well as the sixth largest producer of cow milk. In India, at least 100 million households are involved in farming and 70 million have dairy cattle. In India, dairy production is important for employment, income levels, and the nutritional quality of diets. Milk production in India is dominated by smallholder farmers including landless agricultural workers. For example, 80 percent of milk comes from farms with only two to five cows. A well-known smallholder dairy production initiative, Operation Flood, laid the foundation for a dairy cooperative movement that presently ensures returns on dairy investments to 13 million members. Operation Flood also advanced infrastructural improvements to enable the procurement, processing, marketing, and production of milk and to link India's major metropolitan cities with dairy cooperatives nationwide. This intervention transformed the policy environment, brought significant technological advancements into the rural milk sector, established many village cooperatives, and oriented the dairy industry toward markets.
Improving the proof: Evolution of and emerging trends in impact assessment methods and approaches in agricultural development
Author: Mywish K. MarediaPublisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Assessing impacts of public investments has long captured the interest and attention of the development community. This paper presents the evolution of different methods and approaches used for ex ante appraisal, monitoring, project evaluation, and impact assessment over the last five decades. Among these tools, impact assessment (IA) conducted retrospectively comes closest to providing the proof of development effectiveness. It is defined as the systematic analysis of the significant or lasting changes in people's lives brought about by a given action or series of actions in relation to a counterfactual. There are three basic types of retrospective IAs: macro-level IAs that focus on the contribution of developmental efforts to an impact goal aggregated at a sector or a system level; micro-level impact evaluations (IEs) concerned with estimating the average effect of an intervention on outcomes at the beneficiary level; and micro-level ex post impact analysis concerned with total effects of a development effort after the outputs are scaled-up. Ex post IAs have evolved and expanded over the decades in both breadth and depth of analysis in response to evolving development themes and methodological advancements. The increased emphasis on learning from evaluations has also seen responses from both quantitative and qualitative camps of the evaluation community. The paper argues that generation of robust knowledge that feeds into making developmental policies and investment decisions requires a hierarchical and cumulative approach to "improving the proof" through rigorous and a variety of impact assessment methods applied incrementally at the project, program and system level. Subjecting as many development interventions as resources allow to rigorous impact assessment based on a common framework can help build a critical body of evidence on impacts of development interventions, which can then be subjected to meta-analyses to help assimilate results across different studies and build a knowledge base on what works and what does not.