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Farmers’ awareness and perceptions of the new farm laws 2020 in India: Empirical evidence from a household survey
In 2020, the Union government enacted three new farm laws to address the structural weaknesses inherent in the sale, marketing and stocking of agriculture produce in the regulated/wholesale markets.
Dans un contexte de grave perturbation de la structure du commerce mondial due à la pandémie de coronavirus, l’édition 2020 du Moniteur du commerce agricole en Afrique (Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor, AATM) analyse les tendances les plus marquan
Poverty analysis in the lowlands of Papua New Guinea underscores climate vulnerability and need for income flexibility
A severe El Niño event in 2015/16 decimated an important share of Papua New Guinea's (PNG) local crop production, leaving 10 per cent of the population with significant food shortages.
The 2020 Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor, the third in this series of flagship reports, presents an overview of trade in agriculture products in Africa and highlights the main impediments that affect intra- and extra-African trade.
Diet quality and urbanization in Mozambique
Evaluating the welfare effects of nonfarm enterprises on rural households in Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea (PNG) is the country with the largest rural population share in the East Asia and Pacific region.
Conducting household surveys through face-to-face interviewing in rural Papua New Guinea is beset with difficulties and high costs.
This research note provides a description of the survey sample and implementation and reports on initial findings from analysis of the survey data.
Between May and July 2018, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) implemented a household-level survey in four areas of PNG: the Autonomous Region of Bougainville (South Bougainville near Buin), Madang (Middle Ramu near Kwanga St
Welfare effects of weather variability: Multi-country evidence from Africa south of the Sahara
Climate change and weather variability pose serious threats to food and nutrition security as well as ecosystems, especially when livelihoods depend heavily on natural resources.
In Tajikistan, the poorest country in the Central Asia region and one of the poorest in the world, food consumption patterns remain inadequate for a significant share of the population.
This study investigates the determinants of farmers’ crop choice decisions, crop area diversification, and income diversification in Sub-Saharan Africa using nationally representative panel data for Nigeria and Uganda.
Correlated non-classical measurement errors, ‘second best’ policy inference and the inverse size-productivity relationship in agriculture
We show analytically and empirically that non-classical measurement errors in the two key variables in a hypothesized relationship can bias the estimated relationship between them in any direction.
Adoption of the trinity of practices known commonly today as conservation agriculture (CA)—maintaining soil cover, reducing tillage, and enhancing soil nitrogen through legumes—is a critical process to the management of erosion in rural landscapes
This paper examines the fertilizer subsidy program in Nepal from two different angles, both important for policy makers in the country.