IFPRI Tools and Models
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Item Experiential learning tools for sustainable water management [India](Report, 2025-03) Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.; Falk, Thomas; Priyadarshini, Pratiti; Richu, Sanil; Vishwambhar, Duche; ElDidi, Hagar; Zhang, Wei; Mequanint, MelesseItem Integrating Gender in Cost-Benefit Analysis of Innovations to Enhance Smallholder Farmers’ Resilience and Climate Change Adaptation(Training Material, 2024) Kramer, Berber; Braun, MelodyItem Development Horizons(Website, 2009) International Food Policy Research InstituteItem Dynamic Research EvaluAtion for Management (DREAM)(Wiki, 2009) International Food Policy Research InstituteDREAM, or Dynamic Research EvaluAtion for Management, is a menu-driven software package for evaluating the economic impacts of agricultural research and development (R&D). Users can simulate a range of market, technology adoption, research spillover, and trade policy scenarios based on a flexible, multi-market, partial equilibrium model. With DREAM you can define a range of technology investment, development, and adoption scenarios and save them in an integrated database. Scenarios are described using market, R&D, and adoption information for any number of separate “regions.” Some factors, such as taxes, subsidies, growth rates, and price elasticities, can be specified as constant or as changing over the analysis period. Each region in which production takes place may have its own pattern of technology adoption. After specifying the initial conditions for each region, you can simulate the likely effects of technology development and adoption on prices; on quantities produced, consumed, and traded; and on the flow of economic benefits to producers, consumers, and government. DREAM handles simple to relatively complex evaluation problems using a standardized interface. A number of market assumptions are possible: small open economy, closed economy, vertically integrated farm and post-harvest sectors in a single economy, or multiple trading regions. The software also accommodates technology-driven shifts in supply or demand, and users may specify constant or variable shift effects over time in farmers fields. Importantly, DREAM’s multiple region specification can simulate various technology “spillover” scenarios wherein a technology may be adopted in more than one region. Changes in the pattern of technology spillovers can significantly alter the size and distribution of R&D benefits. DREAM has been applied to the evaluation of individual projects in a national context as well as to entire commodity sectors at a subcontinental or continental scale. And while it was designed primarily to evaluate options for R&D that is yet to be undertaken (ex ante assessments), DREAM has also been successfully applied to analyzing the effect of past research (ex post assessments).Item Gender tool box(Wiki, 2009) International Food Policy Research InstituteItem Tariff Analytical and Simulation Tool for Economists (TASTE)(Wiki, 2009) Horridge, Mark; Laborde Debucquet, DavidThe TASTE program has been designed to allow a large number of users to analyze existing trade policies and perform tariff scenarios. It is based on the MAcMap-HS6 database (version 2, baseyear 2004). It addresses several needs: (1)Queries on the MAcMap-HS6 database and computation of aggregate tariffs (bound and applied) at different sectoral and regional level (different aggregation methods allowed); (2)Simulations of tariff changes resulting from a trade policy scenario implemented at the product (HS6) level. Outputs can be used in different models and for instance, the integration in runGTAP is straightforward; and (3)Disaggregation tools for GTAP users in combination with the SPLITCOM software. TASTE comes with a huge database of bilateral trade flows and of applied and bound tariff rates distinguishing around 200 countries and 5000 HS6 goods. This data, based on a number of sources, has been processed by David Laborde. The trade flows are consistent with Version 7 of the GTAP database. The current version of TASTE uses the MAcMApHS6 version 2 data, and is designed to accompany the version 7 GTAP database. The TASTE program itself reads the enormous dataset and performs various operations using optimized routines, in particular:(1) Computing aggregated tariffs; (2) Transformation of scenarios about formula-based changes in bound rates into files of percent change shocks to applied rates -- which could be used by different models such as RunGTAP; (3) Generation of matrices of splitting weights which could be used to split a sector in the trade matrices of a GTAP model database (maybe using the SplitCom method).Item Market Access Maps Database (MAcMap-HS6)(Wiki, 2009) International Trade Center; United Nations Conference on Trade and Development; World Trade Organization; Centre d'Etudes Prospectives et d'Informations Internationales; International Food Policy Research InstituteAs trade negotiations increasingly rely on quantitative assessments, tariff information becomes necessary in shedding light on applied protection at a detailed level. The purpose of such information is not only to provide a measure of border protection, but also to pave the way for well-suited economic analysis of the consequences of trade liberalization, in particular through CGE models. The MAcMapHS6 project has been developed to answer these needs. A joint effort of the International Trade Center (ITC), a cooperation agency of United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), World Trade Organization (WTO), Geneva), Centre d'Etudes Prospectives et d'Informations Internationales (CEPII, Paris) and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), led to the development of the first version of a Market Access Maps database (MAcMapHS6-v1) (Bouët et al, 2008), the purpose of which was mainly to provide protection figures for the 6th release of the GTAP database (Bouët et al, 2005). The first version of MAcMapHS6 represents an unprecedented effort to monitor worldwide border protection at the most detailed level, while accounting exhaustively for preferential trade agreements. This effort has been pursued with the development of an updated version of this database (MAcMapHS6-v2) relying on 2004 data. Methodology and data quality have been improved. The new database provides evidence on the world applied protection in 2004. MAcMapHS6-v2 is also the source of protection data for both the GTAP7 database and the TASTE software. Its main contributions are: (i) an exhaustive coverage of preferential trade arrangements across the world; (ii) the calculation of the ad valorem equivalent (AVE) for specific duties, acknowledging the differentiated impact of such duties across exporters, depending on their export unit values; (iii) the incorporation of tariff-rate quotas both through the AVE of the resulting protection at the margin, and through the calculation of involved rents; (iv) an original aggregation methodology, using a weighting scheme based on reference groups of countries, and limiting the extent of the endogeneity bias inherent to the standard, import-weighted average protection.Item Nigeria Strategy Support Program (NSSP)(Website, 2008) International Food Policy Research InstituteThe Nigeria Strategy Support Program (NSSP) website is a medium for circulating information relevant to Nigeria's agriculture policy and strategy development. It contains updates on the NSSP's work - ongoing research, upcoming events, publications, findings - as well as general information to support agricultural researchers and policymakers. This includes announcements of relevant conferences, training opportunities, research tools, data, networks, and calls for papers.Item BioConserv(Manual, 2005) International Food Policy Research Institute; Bioversity InternationalBioConserv is a web-based bibliography developed by researchers at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), in collaboration with Bioversity International. It is a unique collection of literature that reflects the emerging interest of applied economists in plant and livestock biodiversity. BioConserv focuses on three major thematic categories addressed in the literature:(1) Biodiversity of crops and plants; (2) Animal genetic resources conservation and sustainable use; and (3) Biodiversity measurements. It is a searchable database (see Browse by Topic or Browse by Year). The collection is updated on a yearly basis and the goal is to gather all economics literature in the area. To attain this goal, BioConserv welcomes Submissions from researchers and interested parties. All relevant papers will be included in the yearly updates.Item Integrated confinement system for genetically engineered plants(Training Material, 2006) Halsey, MarkItem HarvestChoice(Manual, 2006) International Food Policy Research InstituteHarvestChoice is an initiative, jointly led with the University of Minnesota’s International Science and Technology Practice and Policy program, to generate knowledge products to help guide strategic investments to improve the well-being of poor people in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia through more productive and profitable farming.Item IFPRI Mobile Experimental Economics Laboratory (IMEEL)(Manual, 2007) International Food Policy Research InstituteThe IFPRI Mobile Experimental Economics Laboratory (IMEEL) was established in 2007 by the Markets, Trade, and Institutions Division (MTID) of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). Its primary objective is to implement economics experiments in the field to better understand the behavior of smallholders and the poor in rural areas, especially in Africa, Central America and the Caribbean, Latin America, and Southeast Asia. Because IMEEL is portable, researchers can conduct behavioral studies of individuals and groups in remote areasItem HarvestPlus(Website, 2007) International Food Policy Research InstituteHarvestPlus is a global leader in reducing hidden hunger (micronutrient malnutrition) by breeding micronutrient rich foods.Item Ghana Strategy Support Program (GSSP)(Website, 2007) International Food Policy Research InstituteThe Ghana Strategy Support Program (GSSP) website is a medium for circulating information relevant to Ghana's agriculture policy and strategy development. The blog contains updates on GSSP's work - ongoing research, upcoming events, publications, findings - as well as general information to support agricultural researchers and policymakers.Item Net-Map(Manual, 2007) International Food Policy Research InstituteNet-Map is an interview-based mapping tool that helps people understand, visualize, discuss, and improve situations in which many different actors influence outcomes. By creating Influence Network Maps, individuals and groups can clarify their own view of a situation, foster discussion, and develop a strategic approach to their networking activities.Item IFPRI Dataverse(Wiki, 2007) International Food Policy Research InstituteProvides a collection of more than 90 publicly accessible datasets on agriculture and rural development. The user can download the data in various formats (Stata, SPSS, SPlus, text).Item Regional Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System (ReSAKSS)(Manual, 2007) The Regional Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support SystemRegional strategic analysis and knowledge support system (ReSAKSS) is a Africa-focused database nodes that compile, analyze, and disseminate data, information, and tools to help design, implement, monitor, and evaluate rural development strategies.Item Using Stata for survey data analysis(Training Material, 2009-11-30) Minot, NicholasThis manual was prepared to be used as part of a one-week training course. Earlier versions of the manual have been used in training courses in various countries. This manual describes how to use Stata to store, describe, and analyze data. The emphasis is on the analysis of household survey data, but Stata can be used with any database. It should be noted that this course is not a lecture course, but rather it is a semi-structured hands-on workshop in which trainees will use computers to learn different methods of analyzing data. Thus, active participation of the trainees is expected and necessary to maximize the benefit from the training. The training modules focus on how to use computer software to implement a wide range of topics and analytical methods. In order to cover this range of methods, the course cannot provide detailed explanations of the all statistical methods themselves, so it is assumed that trainees have some familiarity with statistical concepts.Item Malabo Montpellier Panel(Website, 2019) International Food Policy Research InstituteThe Malabo Montpellier Panel is a group of international agriculture experts who guide policy choices that accelerate progress towards food security and improved nutrition in Africa. It provides high-quality research to equip decision makers to effectively implement policies and programs that benefit smallholder farmers.Item Statistics of Public Expenditure for Economic Development (SPEED)(Website, 2010) International Food Policy Research InstituteIn many developing countries, weak institutions and fiscal mismanagement often lead to poor access and weak delivery of public services, such as health, education, and basic infrastructure. Improving the efficiency of public spending is an important economic and political tool, along with good governance and a strong revenue stream, for improved public sector management. An efficient public sector serves an important role in a country's economic development by promoting adequate and appropriate allocation of resources. Even small steps toward prudent fiscal management can benefit the poor and other disadvantaged groups by allowing the provision of effective and targeted public services. A better understanding of the linkages between public expenditure and development can provide insights for poverty reduction strategies and key development goals. With this objective, IFPRI has compiled the Statistics of Public Expenditure for Economic Development (SPEED) database, providing the most comprehensive and publicly available public expenditure information for 67 countries and six sectors: agriculture, education, health, defense, social protection, and transportation and communication, for the time period 1980-2007. The SPEED database is available for use by researchers, policymakers, donors, and others in the development community for a variety of economic and policy applications.