The effects of agricultural technology adoption on farm performance have been studied extensively but with limited information on who should be targeted during scaling-up.
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Background: Climate change presents an increasing challenge for food-nutrition security. Nutrition metrics calculated from quantitative food system projections can help focus policy actions.
The papers and ideas on foresight and trade-off analysis presented in this issue are very timely.
Urbanization and child nutritional outcomes
In this paper, the relationship between urbanization and child nutritional outcomes is investigated using satellite-based nighttime light intensity data as a proxy for urbanization and urban growth.
Agricultural water allocation under uncertainty: Redistribution of water shortage risk
This article develops an economic model to analyze how the risk of water shortages affects farmers’ land irrigation decision and how the priority-based water sharing arrangement redistributes such a risk among farms with different water rights pri
Can stronger political competition improve rural livelihoods in developing countries?
Comparing modeling approaches for assessing priorities in international agricultural research
This article examines how the estimated impacts of crop technologies vary with alternate methods and assumptions, and also discusses the implications of these differences for the design of studies to inform research prioritization.