Understanding the types of food systems interventions that foster women’s empowerment and the types of women that are able to benefit from different interventions is important for development policy.
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In complex nutrition-sensitive interventions, separately identifying the effect of each programmatic component on the outcomes of interest can be challenging.
The SELEVER study is a five-year impact evaluation designed to address key knowledge gaps on the impact of a poultry value chain intervention on the diets, health, and nutritional status of women and children in Burkina Faso.
This article reports on a cluster-randomized controlled trial conducted in 120 villages in rural Burkina Faso evaluating a multifaceted intervention (SELEVER) that seeks to increase poultry production by delivering training in conjunction with the
The SELEVER study is a five-year impact evaluation designed to address key knowledge gaps on the impact of a poultry value chain intervention on the diets, health, and nutritional status of women and children in Burkina Faso.
Poultry production in Burkina Faso: Potential for poverty reduction and women’s empowerment
Poultry rearing is widespread in rural Burkina Faso, and contributes to both the food security and cash income of smallholders farmers.
Examining the implementation of multisectoral programs: The SELEVER process evaluation
The SELEVER study is a five-year impact evaluation in Burkina Faso designed to address key knowledge gaps on the impact of poultry value chain interventions on the diets, health and nutritional status of women and children.
Evaluating risk of aflatoxin field contamination from climate change using new modules inside DSSAT
Aflatoxins affect the health of close to 70 percent of the population of the world through contaminated food.
Assessing the health and nutrition risks of smallholder poultry production in Burkina Faso: Insights from formative research
The Soutenir l’Exploitation Familiale pour Lancer l’Élevage des Volailles et Valoriser l’Économie Rurale (SELEVER) study is designed to evaluate the impact of an integrated agriculture-nutrition intervention package (including poultry value chain
The European Union–West Africa Economic Partnership Agreement
Despite recent modifications, the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the European Union (EU) and West African (WA) countries is still being criticized for its potential detrimental effects on WA countries.
Managing risk with insurance and savings: Experimental evidence for male and female farm managers in West Africa
While there is a fast-growing policy interest in offering financial products to help rural households manage risk, the literature is still scant as to which products are the most effective.
Can integrated agriculture-nutrition programs change gender norms on land and asset ownership? Evidence from Burkina Faso
This paper uses a mixed-methods approach to analyze the impact of Helen Keller International’s Enhanced-Homestead Food Production pilot program in Burkina Faso on women’s and men’s assets and on norms regarding ownership, use, and control of those
Social services, human capital, and technical efficiency of smallholders in Burkina Faso
This study applies regression analysis as well as a non-parametric method to survey data from Burkina Faso to analyze the role of human capital in explaining technical efficiency in smallholder agricultural production.
Agroenvironmental transformation in the Sahel
Institutional reform in the Burkinabè cotton sector and its impacts on incomes and food security
Like other West African cotton producers, Burkina Faso’s cotton strategy has traditionally involved substantial government intervention in both input and output markets.
Migration, poverty, and inequality
"This paper applies Gini and concentration coefficient decomposition as well as the Foster-Greer-Thorbecke poverty index and a welfare function to new data from Burkina Faso to test the relationship between long-distance international migrati
Migration and technical efficiency in cereal production
"This paper uses data envelopment analysis and new data from Burkina Faso to test the impact of intercontinental and continental migration on technical efficiency in the production of two cereals—millet and sorghum—by rural households.
The emergence and spreading of an improved traditional soil and water conservation practice in Burkina Faso
"This paper describes the emergence of improved traditional planting pits (zaï) in Burkina Faso in the early 1980s as well as their advantages, disadvantages and impact.
Two increasingly shared perspectives within the international development community are that (a) geography matters, and (b) many government interventions would be more successful if they were better targeted.
Supply response of West African agricultural households
This paper explores the implications of preference heterogeneity between wives and husbands in nonresource-pooling rural West African households for the effect of crop price changes on agricultural production, i.e., their supply response.