In situations with imperfect information, the way that value chain actors perceive each other is an important determinant of the value chain's structure and performance.
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Are agro-clusters pro-poor? Evidence from Ethiopia
Governments and development agencies increasingly promote agro-clusters as a pathway to improving smallholder incomes and ensuring inclusive rural development through mitigating production and market risks.
Impact of aquaculture training on farmers’ income: Cluster randomized controlled trial evidence in Ghana
Aquaculture in Ghana is experiencing tremendous growth, led mainly by large-scale commercial cage operators.
Low coverage of effective nutrition interventions in many high-burden countries, due to service provision and demand factors, result in poor uptake of recommended practices and nutrition outcomes.
Understanding maternal food choice for preschool children across urban–rural settings in Vietnam
Improving diet quality of preschool children is challenging in countries undergoing food environment and nutrition transition.
The economic costs of a multisectoral nutrition programme implemented through a credit platform in Bangladesh
Bangladesh struggles with undernutrition in women and young children. Nutrition-sensitive agriculture programmes can help address rural undernutrition. However, questions remain on the costs of multisectoral programmes.
The adoption of laser land leveler technology and its impact on groundwater use by irrigated farmland in Punjab, Pakistan
This paper investigates the factors that influence the adoption of laser land levelers and their impact on groundwater usage in the Punjab Province of Pakistan. A farm household survey of 504 agriculture producers was conducted in 2019.
The global regulatory framework for the commercialization of nutrient enriched biofortified foods
Nutrient enriched crops (NECs) were developed through biofortification as a tool to reach the world's most vulnerable.
Plot size and sustainable input intensification in smallholder irrigated agriculture: Evidence from Egypt
Increasing population pressure and population density in many African countries are inducing land scarcity and land constraints.
Measuring women's empowerment: Gender and time-use agency in Benin, Malawi and Nigeria
Time use, or how women and men allocate their time, is an important element of empowerment processes.
Community health workers (CHWs) increasingly provide interpersonal counselling to childbearing women and their families to improve adoption of recommended maternal and child nutrition behaviours.
Child feeding practices in rural Ethiopia show increasing consumption of unhealthy foods
The quality of complementary feeding can have both short- and long-term health impacts by delaying or promoting child growth and establishing taste preferences and feeding behaviours.
In developing countries, incomplete and/or asymmetric information contributes to inefficiencies in food supply chains.
Anaemia in Indians aged 10–19 years: Prevalence, burden and associated factors at national and regional levels
Anaemia control programmes in India are hampered by a lack of representative evidence on anaemia prevalence, burden and associated factors for adolescents.
Evidence on the potential for agricultural intensification to improve nutrition has grown considerably.
Social assistance programme impacts on women's and children's diets and nutritional status
Investments in social assistance programmes (SAPs) have accelerated alongside interest in using SAPs to improve health and nutrition outcomes.
Integrating nutrition interventions into antenatal care (ANC) requires adapting global recommendations to fit existing health systems and local contexts, but the evidence is limited on the process of tailoring nutrition interventions for health pr