In the Indian family setting, women play a crucial role in the overall development of the households. Hence, development agencies and government programs mainly target women, assuming that empowering women would improve families.

Agricultural extension can have important impacts on vulnerable populations by increasing food production, which improves both rural incomes and urban food security.

In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, interest has grown in what kinds of assistance protect household food security during shocks.

Between 2009 and 2018, the Chinese government introduced a nationwide reform to register land title for rural individual households in over 600,000 villages.

The COVID-19 pandemic prompted social distancing, workplace closures, and restrictions on mobility and trade that had cascading effects on economic activity, food prices, and employment in low- and middle-income countries.

the April–June 2020 quarter, the nation's agricultural sector, somewhat surprisingly, seems to have done remarkably well.

We implemented a cluster randomized controlled trial to assess the impact of genetically modified eggplant (Bt brinjal) in Bangladesh. Our two primary outcomes were changes in yield and in pesticide costs.

Rural Chinese smallholders with an option to make delayed premium payments have higher levels of insurance uptake and investment in production than those without the option.

Risk and risk preferences are considered as important drivers on farm management, crop choice, and land use decisions. A farmer’s choice of risk management strategies is of vital importance for the viability and continuation of the farm business.

In many developing countries, agricultural policies and programs are often designed in a way to promote productivity growth with modern inputs and technologies, and with limited reference to the nutrition gains that gain be made through production

Background: Cooperatives are considered as efficient institutional innovation for smallholders to access input and output; Cooperatives can help balance the power between contractors and smallholders in contract farming (CF); Cooperatives play an

It is widely recognized that local management of common pool resources can be more ecient and more e↵ective than private markets or top- own government management, especially in remote rural communities in which the institutions necessary for the

We use priming, a concept popular in social psychology, to study the effect of identity salience on aspirations for one’ self and children as part of an impact evaluation in Odisha, India.

Whether and how immigration affects labour markets is a hotly-debated and widely-studied topic. By contrast, the converse question of how emigration impacts labour markets in the source economy has remained largely understudied.