The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) was established in 1975. IFPRI is one of 15 agricultural research centers that receive principal funding from governments, private foundations, and international and regional organizations, most of which are members of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research. 1 Effective January 2007, the Discussion Paper series with...

This paper proposes a PBNM (Policy Based Network Management) framework for automating the process of generating and distributing DiffServ configuration to network devices. The framework is based on IETF standards, and proposes a new business level policy model for simplifying the process of defining QoS policies. The framework is defined in three layers: a business level policy model (based on ...

At the first part of this paper, we summarize the first of our series papers(Haruna, 1999), where we applied Harold Lasswell's concept of the policy process and the policy scientist who supports the process, and proposed the idea of technology policy process and staff because technology development process has to be understood as such a complex decision process as pointed out by Lasswell(1971)....

In order to address the imprecision often introduced by widening operators, policy iteration based on min-computations amounts to consider the characterization of reachable states of a program as an iterative computation of policies, starting from a post-fixpoint. Computing each policy and the associated invariant relies on a sequence of numerical optimizations. While the early papers rely on L...

The unplanned extension of the right to refuse treatment to the precommitment period is described in this paper. This extension of the right to refuse treatment has important public policy implications for the civil commitment process. These implications, as well as the pros and cons of the extension of the right to refuse treatment, are discussed.

This document defines a number of changes and extensions to the Policy Core Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Schema (RFC 3703) based on the model extensions defined by the Policy Core Information Model (PCIM) Extensions (RFC 3460). These changes and extensions consist of new LDAP object classes and attribute types. Some of the schema items defined in this document re-implement exist...

The paper explored the policy options targeted at preventing extreme hunger after surviving COVID-19 pandemic. Multistage sampling procedure was used to select 15 key informants across five purposively selected Local Government Areas in Kaduna and Ogun States for this study. Checklist (administered through recorded telephone calls) elicit responses (qualitative data) on impacts of food system. ...