Social interactions and stigmatized behavior: “Donating” blood plasma in rural China
Despite the resultant disutility, some people, in particular, the poor, are engaged in behaviors that carry social stigma. Empirical studies on stigmatized behavior are rare, largely due to the formidable challenges of collecting data on stigmatized…
What are the impacts of devolution on agricultural civil servants and services in Ghana?
In 2009, Ghana passed Local Government Instrument 1961 (LI 1961) to devolve a set of functions from the central government to the country’s 216 Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Assemblies (MMDA). Agriculture, along with public works and social…
The impact of large-scale social protection interventions on grain prices in poor countries: Evidence from Ethiopia
There has long been concern that cash and in-kind transfers might affect prices in developing country food markets. While there have been a number of studies at highly aggregated levels, much less is known about the effects of cash transfers on local…
Linking agricultural investments to growth and poverty: An economywide approach applied to Mozambique
An economywide systems-approach in Mozambique that combines ex post household econometric analysis of investment impacts with ex antemodeling of growth and poverty linkages.
Playing games to save water: Collective action games for groundwater management in Andhra Pradesh, India
Groundwater is one of the most challenging common pool resources to govern, resulting in resource depletion in many areas. We present an innovative use of collective action games to not only measure propensity for cooperation, but to improve local…
The impact of food assistance on food insecure populations during conflict: Evidence from a quasi-experiment in Mali
Mali, a vast landlocked country at the heart of West Africa in the Sahel region, is one of the least developed and most food insecure countries in the world. Mali suffered from a series of political, constitutional and military crises since January…
Farmers’ perceptions of crop pest severity in Nigeria are associated with landscape, agronomic and socio-economic factors
Study links Nigerian farmers’ perceptions of pest severity to the landscape, agronomic, biophysical, and socioeconomic context in which agricultural production takes place.
Farmers’ crop choice decisions: Trends and determinants in Nigeria and Uganda
This study investigates the determinants of farmers’ crop choice decisions, crop area diversification, and income diversification in Sub-Saharan Africa using nationally representative panel data for Nigeria and Uganda. We use both the shares of land…
Farm machinery use and agricultural industries in India: Status, evolution, implications and lessons learned
This study reviews the evolution of agricultural mechanization, particularly tractors, in India. In doing so, it provides some rough indicators of the extent of mechanization (particularly the spread of tractor use) at different historical phases,…