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No.16 Livelihood diversification through Farmer Field School: Exploring the way to advance climate resilience in arid and semi-arid lands of East Africa

  • SATO Ichiro
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  • Kubo Hideyuki
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  • Josiah Mwangi Ateka
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  • Robert Mbeche
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  • Mochizuki Ayaha
Arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs) in East Africa are vulnerable to recurrent climate-related shocks, incl...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2025年02月
  • Research area｜ Global Environment
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No.32 Infrastructure Development and Carbon Footprints of Household Consumption in India

  • KOBAYAKAWA Toru
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  • IHARA Tomohiko
Infrastructure development plays a critical role in enhancing quality of life by providing essential ser...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2025年01月
  • Research area｜ Global Environment
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No.14 Lagging Agricultural Development in Africa and the Way Forward: Progress and Challenges for the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP)

Agricultural development has been subject to significant delays in Africa. Although a target of annual a...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2025年01月
  • Research area｜ Development Cooperation Strategies
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No.10 Lagging Agricultural Development in Africa and the Way Forward: Progress and Challenges for the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP)

Agricultural development in Africa has been lagging for more than 20 years. While Africa has experienced...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2024年12月
  • Research area｜ Development Cooperation Strategies
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No.27 Analysis of the Smallholder Horticulture Empowerment and Promotion (“SHEP”) Intervention on Income and Food Security in Ethiopia

  • NOMURA Hisako
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  • Asmiro A. Fikadu
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  • Girma G. Gebre
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  • Payal Shah
Smallholder Horticulture Empowerment and Promotion (SHEP) aims to change small-scale horticultural farme...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2024年11月
  • Research area｜ Development Cooperation Strategies
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State-Managed International Voluntary Service: The Case of Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers

Since its establishment in 1965, Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers (JOCVs) have believed that they s...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2024年10月
  • Research area｜ Development Cooperation Strategies
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No.25 Promoting livelihood diversification among rural farming households in Kenya: What role does farm forestry Farmer Field School play?

  • SATO Ichiro
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  • Kubo Hideyuki
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  • Josiah Mwangi Ateka
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  • Robert Mbeche
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  • Mochizuki Ayaha
Farmer Field School (FFS) is an agricultural extension approach designed to empower participants, enabli...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2024年09月
  • Research area｜ Global Environment
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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
In sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), the rapid expansion of rice consumption in recent years has led to increase...
  • 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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  • 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
The Green Revolution in Asia is often considered the “fertilizer and seed revolution.” However, it has r...
  • 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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