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Impacts of sweeping agricultural marketing reforms in a poor state of India: Evidence from repeal of the APMC act
Bihar, among the poorest and least industrialized states in India implemented the most far reaching agricultural market reforms in 2006 by removing law (APMC act) that restricted farmers to selling in government regulated markets.
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Rural Bangladeshi consumers’ willingness to pay for rice with improved nutrition via zinc biofortified rice and decreased milling practices
Zinc deficiency is a severe public health issue in Bangladesh.
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Processing trade, domestic and foreign firms, and the differential impact of the Great Recession: Evidence from Chinese customs data
Using firm-level transaction records from the proprietary Chinese Customs data we estimate differential impacts of the Great Recession (GR) of 2008-09 on exports of private domestic firms (PDFs) and foreign invested firms (FIFs).
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Impact of iron biofortified beans on yields and farmers' incomes: The case of Rwanda
This paper investigates the economic impact of the adoption of conventionally-bred improved iron biofortified beans (IBB) by smallholder farmers in Rwanda.
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Do grassroots interventions relax behavioral constraints to the adoption of nutrition-sensitive food production systems?
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
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Do agriculture interventions increase aspirations? An examination from the lens of caste and gender
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.
Food prices vary widely around the world, depending on the local cost of retail services and supply chains as well as farm supply and the border prices of tradable commodities.
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Improving farmer trust and seller reciprocity in agricultural input markets: A lab-in-the-field experiment in Bangladesh
Improving the quality of agricultural inputs used by farmers is a potentially important instrument to improve productivity and food security.
Malnutrition is one of the biggest public health challenges of the century with about 2 billion people affected by it globally.
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Are seed distributions effective? Evidence from a randomly controlled experiment with improved bean seeds in rural Madagascar
This paper studies access to and adoption of improved seeds and the diffusion of this information in a remote area in central Madagascar. The analysis is based on panel data gathered from 2009 to 2014 for 390 households in three villages.
Presented at CSAE Conference 2016: Economic Development in Africa.
This paper seeks to enhance our understanding of resilience processes, activities, and outcomes by examining initiatives to enhance resilience capacity that are designed and implemented by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs).
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Resilience and pastoralism in Africa south of the Sahara, with a particular focus on the Horn of Africa and the Sahel, West Africa
Recently there has been a great deal of interest in applying the concept of resilience to pastoral systems and to development programs in pastoral systems.