Irrigation and agricultural transformation in Ethiopia
Climate change forecasts for Ethiopia predict higher temperature and rainfall and increased variability in rainfall with periodic severe droughts and floods.
Climate change forecasts for Ethiopia predict higher temperature and rainfall and increased variability in rainfall with periodic severe droughts and floods.
To understand the impact of COVID-19 on rural women, we designed a longitudinal panel study with five rounds of phone survey data collection in Dang district in the mid-western region of Nepal. This note summarizes results from all rounds.
Since the onset of economic downturns caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries have struggled with uneven recoveries across sectors, as some types of workers and industries were better able to resume their activities than others.
A relatively large body of literature has documented the welfare effects of smallholder farmers’ participation in single-commodity output markets.
Climate change poses a serious threat to many countries, particularly to developing countries, which often have large sections of the population without resources to adapt to changes in their environment.
Imbalanced application of fertilizers is a major fiscal and environmental problem in South Asia.
This paper examines the economic and food security implications of climate change in Africa with a focus on population and income growth, agricultural livelihoods and food security, and the role of gender and youth.
This dataset includes data and do-files for reproducing results presented in the article "Designing better Input Support Programs: Lessons from Zinc Subsidies in Andhra Pradesh, India." The data used in the analysis of this paper were generated fr
India has one of the largest agricultural input support programs in the world, delivered in the form of subsidies to farmers, raising concerns about its sustainability.
Technologies and innovations are key drivers of human development and competitiveness.
Absent vaccines and pharmaceutical interventions, the only tool available to mitigate its demographic effects is some measure of physical distancing, to reduce contagion by breaking social and economic contacts.
Creative capacity building (CCB), designed by the D-Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and implemented by Kulika Uganda, is a community-driven programme that helps communities identify and design their own tools and machines to meet
Agriculture in Nepal has historically suffered from low levels of productivity.
Hunger and acute child malnutrition are increasingly concentrated in fragile countries and civil conflict zones. According to the United Nations, Yemen’s civil war has caused the world’s worst humanitarian crisis in recent history.
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.
Chapter 10 uses Egypt as a case study to examine the effectiveness of proxy means test (PMT) targeting.