We investigate the effect of a modest food safety premium on semisubsistence farmers' investment in a food safety technology.
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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.
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.
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.
Does microfinance reduce rural poverty?
Is there persistence in the impact of emergency food aid?
The primary goal of emergency food aid after an economic shock is often to bolster short-term food and nutrition security.
Peanut research and poverty reduction
Revisiting the size–productivity relationship withimperfect measures of production and plot size
Monitoring smallholder agricultural productivity growth, one of the targets of the Sustainable Development Goals, rests on accurate measures of crop production and land area.