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Pakistan seed dealer survey

January, 2016

The dataset "Seed Dealer Survey" was collected to inform the research study that examines the efficiency of markets for cotton seed in Pakistan with particular emphasis on the market for genetically modified cotton seed embodying insect-resistance traits from the soil bacterium Bacillus thurigiensis (Bt) that have been conferred through genetic modification. The purpose of the seed dealer survey and seed collection was to test the seed, through DNA fingerprinting, for purity and other traits (germination, moisture etc.).

Medium and Large-Scale Farmers and Agricultural Mechanization in Ghana

January, 2016

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in collaboration with the Savannah Agricultural Research Institute (SARI) of Council for Scientific and Industrial Research and Ministry of Food and Agriculture designed "Medium and Large-Scale Farmers and Agricultural Mechanization in Ghana" survey targeting large to medium scale farmers and tractor owners.

Egypt Disaggregated Social Accounting Matrix, 2010/11

January, 2016

This data study includes disaggregated social accounting matrix (SAM) for the Egyptian economy for year 2010/11. This new SAM builds on the previous SAM 2010/11 built and published by Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) with the support of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). This SAM was constructed with a special focus on the agriculture sector and on income distribution amongst households.

Tunisia Social Accounting Matrix, 2012

January, 2016

The Tunisia Social Accounting Matrix (SAM), 2012 was built with a focus on analyzing the structure and importance of the agriculture and trade in the Tunisian economy. This SAM helps to understand the linkages between agricultural production, factor income distribution, and households' incomes and expenditures. The 2012 Input-Output (I-O) and the supply-use table were the two main data sources used in building the disaggregated activity sector and commodity accounts. One of the most important added values of this SAM is the estimation of agricultural technologies.

Bangladesh Integrated Household Survey (BIHS) 2015

Manuals & Guidelines
January, 2016
Global

Bangladesh that collects detailed data on (1) plot-level agricultural production and practices, (2) dietary intake of individual household members, (3) anthropometric measurements (height and weight) of all household members, and (4) data to measure women’s empowerment in agriculture index (WEAI). A community survey supplements the BIHS data to provide information on area-specific contextual factors. The BIHS covers 6500 households in 325 primary sampling units.

Spatial Distribution of Estimated Wind-Power Royalties in West Texas

Peer-reviewed publication
December, 2015

Wind-power development in the U.S. occurs primarily on private land, producing royalties for landowners through private contracts with wind-farm operators. Texas, the U.S. leader in wind-power production with well-documented support for wind power, has virtually all of its ~12 GW of wind capacity sited on private lands. Determining the spatial distribution of royalty payments from wind energy is a crucial first step to understanding how renewable power may alter land-based livelihoods of some landowners, and, as a result, possibly encourage land-use changes.

The voracious appetites of public versus private property: a view of intellectual property and biodiversity from legal pluralism

Policy Papers & Briefs
June, 2005
India

In an opening vignette to an otherwise insightful article, Carol M. Rose (2003) comparespeople who hold intellectual property rights to poor villagers in India. They put effort and timeinto developing small but productive properties, only to have the wild tiger or rogue elephant ofthe public domain trample them or eat them up. In extreme cases, IP "villages" are abandonedand left to "the jungle" of public property.

Incorporative approach to the formation of land property at the local territorial level

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2012
Belarus

Transition from corporative property to incorporative (possession of territorial formation by each native resident) could be an evolutional continuation of the development of land property relations at the local territorial level in the conditions of the Republic of Belarus. Incorporative approach helps to solve a number of key economic problems in rural areas, connected with the growth of wealth of people constantly residing here, with their security and safety of their property and investments.