This study investigated the effects of social networks on consumer willingness to pay (WTP) for two high-iron bean (HIB) varieties (HIB-A and HIB-B) using data collected from 572 farmers in rural Rwanda.

Increasing urbanization in developing countries creates current and future challenges for the global food system to deliver high quality nutritious foods and provide equitable access for the urban poor.

Several literature reviews have questioned the rigorousness of impact evaluations of nutrition-sensitive agriculture interventions.

Micronutrient deficiencies affect more than two billion individuals worldwide, with dire outcomes for human health and productivity.

In this paper, we seek to understand the current structure of the pearl millet seed sector in order to formulate recommendations about how best to position the marketing strategy for soon-to-be-released, high-iron hybrids.

Several studies have suggested demand-pull creation in urban areas as a strategy to drive the adoption of novel agricultural products in rural areas.

Pearl millet is one of the most important food staples of poorer populations in the drylands of India. India’s first pearl millet hybrids were released during the Green Revolution.

Beans are grown by nearly all rural households in Rwanda, provide a large share of calorie intakes, and are a vital source of proteins and micronutrients.

In recent times, results of various adoption studies have been mixed, raising questions regarding why some improved farm technologies are still not widely adopted several years after their first introduction.

This paper investigates the relationship between adoption of modern rice varieties and rice varietal diversity on household farms in Bangladesh.

Biofortification, breeding staple food crops to be dense sources of essential micronutrients, is fast emerging as a strategy to fight micronutrient malnutrition.

Biofortified pro-vitamin A cassava varieties are being developed and deployed in Nigeria and other countries.

In this paper we study the role of social networks in the context of the low adoption rate of hybrid varieties of pearl millet, an important dry land crop in India.

Agricultural interventions are thought to have the potential to improve nutrition, but very little rigorous evidence is available about programs that link the two.

Iron deficiency among children and women of child-bearing age is a public health problem in many developing countries.

HarvestPlus seeks to select one or more wheat varieties in Pakistan to biofortify with zinc to improve the health of the Pakistani population, especially women and children.

This paper applies duration analysis to identify the factors that shorten the time until a farmer replaces one modern variety with another, and tests hypotheses concerning two salient themes of the Green Revolution: farm size differences and the r

Despite the policy importance of household nutrition and food security in rural Zambia, we are not aware of any analyses since a 1994 study by Shubh Kumar that have related the adoption of hybrid seed to dietary diversity among smallholder maize g