This study investigated the effects of social networks on consumer willingness to pay (WTP) for two high-iron bean (HIB) varieties (HIB-A and HIB-B) using data collected from 572 farmers in rural Rwanda.
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Habitual choice strategy, poverty and urban consumer demand for biofortified iron beans
Increasing urbanization in developing countries creates current and future challenges for the global food system to deliver high quality nutritious foods and provide equitable access for the urban poor.
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Are we there yet? The rigorousness of impact evaluations of nutrition-sensitive agricultural interventions
Several literature reviews have questioned the rigorousness of impact evaluations of nutrition-sensitive agriculture interventions.
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Invisible heterogeneity in crop zinc concentration and child zinc intake in rural Uganda
Micronutrient deficiencies affect more than two billion individuals worldwide, with dire outcomes for human health and productivity.
In this paper, we seek to understand the current structure of the pearl millet seed sector in order to formulate recommendations about how best to position the marketing strategy for soon-to-be-released, high-iron hybrids.
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Understanding the adoption of high-iron varieties in Maharashtra, India: What explains popularity?
Pearl millet is one of the most important food staples of poorer populations in the drylands of India. India’s first pearl millet hybrids were released during the Green Revolution.
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Biofortification, crop adoption, and health information: impact pathways in Mozambique and Uganda
Biofortification, breeding staple food crops to be dense sources of essential micronutrients, is fast emerging as a strategy to fight micronutrient malnutrition.
Biofortified pro-vitamin A cassava varieties are being developed and deployed in Nigeria and other countries.
In this paper we study the role of social networks in the context of the low adoption rate of hybrid varieties of pearl millet, an important dry land crop in India.
Agricultural interventions are thought to have the potential to improve nutrition, but very little rigorous evidence is available about programs that link the two.
Iron deficiency among children and women of child-bearing age is a public health problem in many developing countries.
In this paper we use sensory evaluation methods adopted from food science literature and the Becker-DeGroot-Marschak mechanism adopted from economic valuation literature to estimate consumer demand for biofortified high-iron pearl millet (HIPM) in Ma
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Productivity and efficiency of farmers growing four popular wheat varieties in Punjab, Pakistan
HarvestPlus seeks to select one or more wheat varieties in Pakistan to biofortify with zinc to improve the health of the Pakistani population, especially women and children.
This paper applies duration analysis to identify the factors that shorten the time until a farmer replaces one modern variety with another, and tests hypotheses concerning two salient themes of the Green Revolution: farm size differences and the r
In this paper we use the Becker-deGroot-Marschak auction mechanism to estimate consumer demand for biofortified yellow cassava varieties in two states of Nigeria: Imo in the southeast and Oyo in the southwest.
Country-crop-micronutrient–specific biofortification prioritization indices (BPIs)
In this paper we assess (a) consumers’ willingness to pay (WTP) for a recently developed variety of maize that is high in provitamin A in the context of a public health intervention and (b) the performance of three elicitation mechanisms in estimatin
This study explores farmer acceptance and valuation of a biofortified staple food crop in a developing country prior to its commercialization.
In this paper, we examine the implications of alternative country-specific scenarios for biofortification on the reduction of micronutrient deficiency prevalence in under-fives.
Biofortification is increasingly seen as an additional tool to combat micronutrient malnutrition.