We investigate the effect of a modest food safety premium on semisubsistence farmers' investment in a food safety technology.
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Cash transfers, migration, and gender norms
Although migration remains crucial for economic development, financial constraints may limit individual ability to migrate.
Data from 3 irrigation schemes in Mozambique reveal patterns consistent with water inefficiency. A feedback tool could visually communicate ways to conserve by varying water applications at each stage of the crop cycle.
International humanitarian organizations have expressed substantial concern about the potential for increases in food insecurity resulting from the COVID‐19 pandemic.
Measurement error mechanisms matter: Agricultural intensification with farmer misperceptions and misreporting
This paper was named AAEA's Best Paper at their 2022 Annual Meeting.
Income variability, evolving diets, and elasticity estimation of demand for processed foods in Nigeria
Evidence from six rounds of household consumption data on income variability, evolving diets, and elasticity estimation of demand for processed foods in Nigeria.
Study finds consumers buy maize marked “aflatoxin-safe” during marketing campaigns, but don’t stick with it after campaign ends.
Information and communication technologies to provide agricultural advice to smallholder farmers: Experimental evidence from Uganda
Agricultural advisory services generally rely on interpersonal knowledge transfers by agricultural extension agents who visit farmers to provide information.
Rural food markets and child nutrition
Improved access to high-quality markets with a wide array of healthy foods at affordable prices
will deliver sizable improvements in rural diets.
Biofortification, crop adoption and health information: Impact pathways in Mozambique and Uganda
Biofortification is a promising strategy to combat micronutrient malnutrition by promoting the adoption of staple food crops bred to be dense sources of specific micronutrients.
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Extreme weather and civil war
A growing body of evidence shows a causal relationship between extreme weather events and civil conflict incidence at the global level.