Agricultural development projects increasingly include women’s empowerment and gender equality among their objectives, but efforts to evaluate their impact have been stymied by the lack of comparable measures.
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Income mobility of rural households: Are female headed households participating in Ethiopia’s economic growth?
Over the last decade, Ethiopia has had one of the fastest growing economies in the world with annual growth rates averaging approximately 9.2% and 5.3% for the overall economy and the agricultural sector, respectively.
Gender gaps in sustainable land management and implications for agricultural productivity: Evidence from Ethiopia
We investigate whether a large-scale watershed program promoting sustainable land management (SLM) in Ethiopia increases adoption of SLM and its benefits on plots owned by women in male-headed households compared to plots owned by their spouses, j
Key stakeholders and actions to address Lake Beseka’s challenges in Ethiopia: A social network approach
Lake Beseka is a shallow, saline, endorheic lake in the East African Rift Valley of Ethiopia that has dramatically grown in size due to large-scale irrigation development in its catchment area.
Investors in international agricultural research seek sustainable agri-food technologies that can potentially serve multiple objectives, including economic growth, food security, and sustainable use of natural resources.
Food inflation, poverty, and urbanization
After a long secular decline in the 20th century, food prices spiked sharply in 2007-08, 2010-11 and again in 2021-22.
Faced with incomplete and imperfect information, economic actors rely predominantly on perceptions and often base decisions on heuristics prone to bias.
Does the UN Joint Program for Rural Women’s Economic Empowerment (JP RWEE) deliver on its empowerment objectives?
This paper compares the empowerment impacts of the UN Joint Program for Rural Women’s Economic Empowerment (JP RWEE) in Ethiopia, Niger, Nepal, and Kyrgyzstan using the Abbreviated Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (A-WEAI).
The purpose of this review is to assess the extent to which the research outputs of Flagship 3, cluster on The Policy Environment for Value Chains (cluster 3.1) of the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) have been u
Pathways from irrigation to prosperity, nutrition and resilience: The case of smallholder irrigation in Mali
Irrigation is increasingly promoted in Africa south of the Sahara, but the benefit streams of small-scale irrigation in Mali remain largely unknown.
Smallholder irrigation technology diffusion in Mali: Insights from stakeholder mapping
Small-scale irrigation has significant potential to increase crop productivity in Mali, in particular given growing climate change impacts on the country and region.
Analysis of the impacts of agricultural incentives on the performance of agricultural value chains
Agricultural value chains are enormously important for development and poverty reduction in developing countries.
COVID-19 and extreme weather: Impacts on food security and migration attitudes in rural Guatemala
This paper examines the continuing effects of COVID-19 and exposure to weather extremes on income, dietary, and migration outcomes in rural Guatemala.
Financial access of midstream agricultural firms in Africa: Evidence from the LSMS-ISA and World Bank enterprise surveys
The midstream of agricultural value chains are rapidly changing in response to shifting domestic and international demand.
Improving trust and reciprocity in agricultural input markets: A lab-in-the-field experiment in Bangladesh
Adoption of high-quality yet more expensive agricultural inputs remains low, in part because most inputs are experience goods: before purchase, buyers observe only price—not quality—providing sellers with opportunities to cheat on quality.
Ensuring privacy of respondents in phone surveys is especially challenging compared to face-to-face interviews.
COVID-19 risks rolling back many of the efforts and global successes recorded in reducing poverty and food insecurity.
Finance needs of the agricultural midstream and the prospects for digital financial services
Recent literature suggests that agricultural value chains are changing rapidly and places an increasing focus on the importance of actors and activities taking place in the “midstream” of these value chains, after production and prior to final sal
Intensive and extensive margins of India’s agricultural trade: Implications for export diversification and development
This paper analyses relative contribution of intensive and extensive margins to growth in India’s agricultural exports for the period 2001 to 2020.
Nutrition as a basic need: A new method for utility-consistent and nutritionally adequate food poverty lines
In most countries and globally, malnutrition rates exceed poverty rates.