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No.18 How has Rice Production in Sub-Saharan Africa Expanded? A Comparison of Growth Rates Before and After CARD Implementation and the Case of Tanzania

  • Fujiie Hitoshi
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  • Suzuki Fumihiko
  • Date of issuance｜ 2024年03月
  • Research area｜ Development Cooperation Strategies
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The Impact of “Grow to Sell” Agricultural Extension on Smallholder Horticulture Farmers: Evidence from a Market-Oriented Approach in Kenya

  • Shimizutani Satoshi
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  • TAGUCHI Shimpei
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  • YAMADA Eiji
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  • Yamada Hiroyuki
This paper evaluates the impact of a market-oriented agricultural extension program called Smallholder H...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2023年10月
  • Research area｜ Development Cooperation Strategies
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Japanese Immigrants Who Supported the Development of Paraguay—The Achievements That Made Paraguay the World’s Fourth Largest Soybean Exporter and an Implementer of New Initiatives for Industrial Diversification

  • Kitanaka Makoto
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  • Fujishiro Kazuo
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  • HOSONO Akio
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  • Ito Keisuke
Project History is a publication series from the JICA Ogata Sadako Research Institute for Peace and Deve...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2023年08月
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No.14 Is the Green Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa a Fertilizer and Seed Revolution? The Impact of Training and Free Distribution of Fertilizer and Seeds on Agricultural Productivity

  • Yuko Nakano
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  • Eustadius Francis Magezi
  • Date of issuance｜ 2023年08月
  • Research area｜ Development Cooperation Strategies
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No.7 Mechanization, Intensification, and Extensification of Agriculture: Evidence from Rice Farming in Tanzania

  • Eustadius F. Magezi
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  • Yuko Nakano
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  • Takeshi Sakurai
The use of agricultural machinery is increasingly common in sub-Saharan Africa. However, its potential b...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2023年03月
  • Research area｜ Development Cooperation Strategies
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Rice Green Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa

  • Keijiro Otsuka
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  • Yukichi Mano
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  • Kazushi Takahashi
This open-access book seeks an effective strategy that can facilitate the realization of a green revolut...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2023年03月
  • Research area｜ Development Cooperation Strategies
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No.6 Toward Quality Upgrading of Rice Production in SSA: Experimental Evidence from Northern Ghana

  • Ogura Tatsuya
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  • Joseph A. Awuni
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  • Takeshi Sakurai
Quality improvement of domestic milled rice is an urgent issue in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) because domes...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2023年03月
  • Research area｜ Development Cooperation Strategies
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Los Inmigrantes Japoneses y su Contribución al Desarrollo del Paraguay – Contribución al Posicionamiento del País como el Cuarto Mayor Exportador de Soja en el Mundo y Nuevas Iniciativas para la Diversificación Industrial

  • Kitanaka Makoto
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  • Fujishiro Kazuo
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  • HOSONO Akio
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  • Ito Keisuke
Project History is a publication series from JICA Ogata Sadako Research Institute for Peace and Developm...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2022年07月
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Irrigation Infrastructure and Trust: Evidence From Natural and Lab-in-the-field Experiments in Rural Communities

  • Keitaro Aoyagi
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  • Yasuyuki Sawada
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  • Masahiro Shoji
Does irrigation infrastructure build trust, and how? To answer, this paper tests two processes of trust ...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2022年05月
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No.9 Toward a Rice Green Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa

  • Keijiro Otsuka
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  • Yukichi Mano
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  • Kazushi Takahashi
The time is ripe to pursue a Green Revolution in rice in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) as a means of promotin...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2022年03月
  • Research area｜ Development Cooperation Strategies
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No.230 Risk Management for Smallholder Farmers: An Empirical Study on the Adoption of Weather-Index Crop Insurance in Rural Kenya

  • Fukumori Keiko
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  • Arai Ayumi
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  • Matsumoto Tomoya
This study examines the determinants of smallholder farmers’ adoption of weather-index crop insurance, w...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2022年03月
  • Research area｜ Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
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No.226 The Importance of Farm Management Training for the African Rice Green Revolution: Experimental Evidence from Rainfed Lowland Areas in Mozambique

  • Kei Kajisa
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  • Vu Trang Thu
There remains an unsettled question regarding the achievement of the African rice Green Revolution (GR):...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2021年12月
  • Research area｜ Development Cooperation Strategies
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No.223 Evaluating the Robustness of Project Performance Under Deep Uncertainty of Climate Change: A Case Study of Irrigation Development in Kenya

  • NARITA Daiju
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  • SATO Ichiro
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  • Daikichi Ogawada
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  • Akiko Matsumura
While financing for climate adaptation projects is gaining prominence worldwide, the methods of performa...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2021年08月
  • Research area｜ Global Environment
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No.220 An Inquiry into the Process of Upgrading Rice Milling Service: The Case of Mwea Irrigation Scheme in Kenya

  • Yukichi Mano
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  • Timothy Njagi Njeru
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  • Keijiro Otsuka
Countries in sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) heavily rely on rice imported from Asia, partly because of rapidly ...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2021年03月
  • Research area｜ Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
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No.216 Microfinance Competition and Multiple Borrowing: Evidence Using Panel Data from Bangladesh

  • Minhaj Mahmud
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  • Yasuyuki Sawada
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  • Mari Tanaka
This paper examines the causes and consequences of multiple borrowing in rural Bangladesh using long-ter...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2021年01月
  • Research area｜ Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
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No.206 Integrative Economic Evaluation of an Infrastructure Project as a Measure for Climate Change Adaptation: A Case Study of Irrigation Development in Kenya

  • NARITA Daiju
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  • SATO Ichiro
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  • Daikichi Ogawada
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  • Akiko Matsumura
As climate change adaptation is becoming a recognized policy issue, the need is growing for quantitative...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2020年03月
  • Research area｜ Global Environment
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No.200 Economic Viability of Large-scale Irrigation Construction in 21st Century Sub-Saharan Africa: Centering around an Estimation of the Construction Costs of the Mwea Irrigation Scheme in Kenya

  • Kikuchi Masao
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  • Yukichi Mano
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  • Timothy Njagi Njeru
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  • Douglas J. Merrey
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  • Keijiro Otsuka
The main reason for the success of the 20th century Green Revolution in Asia was the development of larg...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2020年01月
  • Research area｜ Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
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Leave No One Behind: Time for Specifics on the Sustainable Development Goals

  • Homi KHARAS
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  • John W. McArthur
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  • OHNO Izumi
In 2015, all 193 member states of the United Nations adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) an...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2019年10月
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No.196 Technology Adoption, Impact, and Extension in Developing Countries’ Agriculture: A Review of the Recent Literature

  • Kazushi Takahashi
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  • Rie Muraoka
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  • Keijiro Otsuka
Given the stagnant agricultural productivity and persistent food insecurity in low-income countries—nota...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2019年10月
  • Research area｜ Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
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Innovation with Spatial Impact: Sustainable Development of the Brazilian Cerrado

  • HOSONO Akio
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  • Nobuaki Hamaguchi
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  • Alan Bojanic
Brazil’s landlocked, barren Cerrado region was once believed to be unfit for agriculture. Today, this se...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2019年08月
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