Little is known about the effects of urbanization on women’s attitudes toward intimate partner violence (IPV).

Several countries across the developing world have designed and implemented agricultural export incentives. However, little is known about the effects of these policies on various aspects of domestic food security.

In many developing countries, poor delivery of public services remains an important problem.

Agricultural advisory services are generally biased towards men, with information targeted mainly to male members within the household, and in formats that often reinforce male dominance in agricultural decision-making.

Do electoral considerations play a role in the targeting of humanitarian transfers?

Despite enthusiasm around applications of information and communications technologies (ICTs) to smallholder agriculture in many lower-income countries, there are still many questions on the effectiveness of ICT-based approaches.

The management of forest commons requires coordination within a community and between communities. This coordination is usually challenging given the incentives for free riding.

There is resurging interest in community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) as an approach for achieving global biodiversity conservation goals.

Experimental evidence shows interventions that reduce aflatoxin exposure can be cost-effective based on averted poisoning deaths and cancer cases alone; impacts on stunting imply additional health benefits. 
 

Intergenerational transmission of intrahousehold gender attitudes in Ethiopia--An analysis of current households with natal households of both the husband and wife.

Women’s decisionmaking indicators are widely used in social science research, though insufficient attention is given to measurement issues.

We study the take‐up of an intervention designed to increase women’s economic empowerment among sugarcane farmers in Uganda. We find that lower socioeconomic status and household gender norms both predict a couple’s refusal of the intervention.

Remote areas are often characterized by lower welfare outcomes due to economic disadvantages and higher transaction costs for trade. But their poorer situation may also be linked to worse public service delivery.

In 2015, Ethiopia experienced one of its worst droughts in decades.

With emerging recognition of changing climates’ impact on agricultural productivity, a sharper lens is focused on how to target agricultural public investments for development.