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How light is too light touch: The effect of a short training-based intervention on household poultry production in Burkina Faso
This paper reports on the effects of a training-based intervention seeking to increase household engagement in poultry production in Burkina Faso, analyzing data from a large-scale cluster randomized trial in which 1798 households in 60 communes w
Quantitative assessment of agricultural sustainability reveals divergent priorities among nations
Agriculture is fundamental to all three pillars of sustainability, environment, society, and economy. However, the definition of sustainable agriculture and the capacities to measure it remain elusive.
Storage is an important aspect of food security in developing countries. Therefore, it is crucial for farmers to have access to sustainable storage technologies to cope with storage losses.
Smart subsidies for sustainable soils: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial in southern Malawi
Evidence on the effectiveness of a payments for ecosystem services (PES) program in Southern Malawi encouraging the adoption of soil conservation practices, specifically conservation agriculture
Follow the leader? A field experiment on social influence
An experiment on social influence in risk-taking among endogenously formed groups in rural Malawi finds decisions by peers are most influential to participants.
“Moving umbrella”: Bureaucratic transfers and the comovement of interregional investments in China
This paper studies the pattern of interregional investment after bureaucratic transfers across Chinese cities.
Rising land commodification in sub-Saharan Africa: Reconciling the diverse narratives
Scholarship on African land markets has proliferated in recent years. We contend that this scholarship consists of distinct literatures that examine non-overlapping parts of the system and diverge in their conclusions.
The importance of women’s roles for nutrition-sensitive agricultural projects is increasingly recognized, yet little is known about whether such projects improve women’s empowerment and gender equality.
Women’s groups are important rural social and financial institutions in South Asia. In India, a large majority of women’s groups programs are implemented through self-help groups (SHGs).
Earned and unearned income: Experimental evidence on expenditures and labor supply in Malawi
Though the differential impacts of earned and unearned income have long been of interest to economists and policymakers, the study of this question is often conflated by other differences between the income streams.
The rapid rise of agricultural mechanization in Myanmar
The past decade has seen a resurgence of interest in the role of mechanization in agricultural development.
Cross-disciplinary intersections between public health and economics in intimate partner violence research
Research on intimate partner violence (IPV) has progressed in the last decade in the fields of public health and economics, with under-explored potential for cross-fertilisation.
Improving food safety on the farm: Experimental evidence from Kenya on incentives and subsidies for technology adoption
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.
The future of development engineering: Our vision for the next generation of publications in DevEng
Engineering plays an important role in advancing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).