With emerging recognition of changing climates’ impact on agricultural productivity, a sharper lens is focused on how to target agricultural public investments for development.

Good governance plays a crucial role in how remittances affect food security & nutrition in Africa south of the Sahara.

Africa is likely to experience warming and increased climate variability by the late 21st century. Climate extremes have been linked to adverse economic outcomes.

A look beyond the identity of household decisionmakers to the rationale behind who makes decisions and whether that rationale factors in household outcomes.

Consumption-based household surveys are used to look at the impact of weather variabilities on welfare, food consumption, and poverty, finding disproportionate welfare impacts from floods.

Increasing crop diversity opens market opportunities for households while still contributing to self-consumption indicating that crop diversification may be more beneficial to farmers than specialization. (Ghana)
 

More information is impactful only when beneficiaries deem the information relevant, and when they have both the power and incentives to act on it.

Women’s empowerment is a process that includes increases in intrinsic agency (power within); instrumental agency (power to); and collective agency (power with).

New findings on how proximity to urban areas affects patterns of rural employment, income levels, and agricultural intensification among households in rural Ghana.

The potential for women’s self-help groups to improve access and use of public entitlement schemes in India.

Evidence on heterogeneous learning patterns and hybrid rice adoption in Bihar, India

Where there are more village meetings, cash transfers can increase trust in elected leaders, and improve the perceptions of government responsiveness to citizens’ concerns, and leaders' honesty.

Examining developments in global agricultural production systems, climate change, and food security using IFPRI's IMPACT model.