Why is there high variability—both across countries and across different food staples—in the adoption and implementation of large-scale food fortification (LSFF)?
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Intervening in complex agrifood systems: Assessing outcomes of a multistakeholder approach in central Mozambique
Inclusive co-design of system innovations incorporates diverse perspectives and bodies of knowledge that can generate solutions that fit well in a local context and over time influence the socio-technical regime.
When women hold local office: Women’s representation and political engagement amid conflict and climate shocks across Africa
One argument in favor of quotas for women’s representation in political office is that female politicians can break down gender barriers more broadly, inspiring individual women to participate politically.
Gender, deliberation, and natural resource governance: Experimental evidence from Malawi
Initiatives to combat climate change often strive to include women’s voices, but there is limited evidence on how this feature influences program design or its benefits for women.
Analysis of the implications of Africa's food systems development on environmental sustainability
Africa’s food systems need to provide sufficient affordable, nutritious food for Africa’s population, whilst generating income and employment to support the continent’s economic and social development.
Development of a Women’s Empowerment metric for Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WE-WASH)
There is a growing focus on gender-sensitive approaches and women’s empowerment in the water, sanitation, and hygiene sectors. At the same time, there is a lack of metrics to measure women’s empowerment in the WASH sector.
What are you talking about? Applying cognitive interviewing to improve survey questions on women’s economic empowerment for market inclusion
Monitoring progress toward women’s empowerment requires tools that reflect its underlying concepts. Cognitive interviewing is a qualitative approach for identifying sources of error in how respondents respond to survey items.
Measuring empowerment across the value chain: The evolution of the project-level Women’s Empowerment Index for Market Inclusion (pro-WEAI+MI)
Many development agencies design and implement interventions that aim to reach, benefit, and empower rural women across the value chain in activities ranging from production, to processing, to marketing.
Micro insights on the pathways to agricultural transformation: Comparative evidence from Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa
Most studies of agricultural transformation document the impact of agricultural income growth on macroeconomic indicators of development.
Do agricultural projects help smallholders transition to better livelihood strategies?
Agricultural projects typically aim to promote the uptake of project components amongst targeted farm populations to improve their on-farm productivity within a “theory of change” that leads to improvements in their welfare.
Innovation for Agribusiness (InovAgro): Household- and market-level impacts of value chain interventions
Agriculture, in Mozambique, is characterized by production systems that are based predominantly on rainfed conditions and on low use of yield enhancing agricultural inputs.
Revisiting poverty trends and the role of social protection systems in Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic
Quantifying the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on poverty in Africa has been as difficult as predicting the path of the pandemic, mainly due to data limitations.
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.
COVID-19 risks rolling back many of the efforts and global successes recorded in reducing poverty and food insecurity.
Information, pesticide safety behaviors, and toxicity risk perceptions evidence from Zambia and Mozambique
Purpose: Pesticide safety is a growing global concern particularly in developing countries as farmers increase their use of toxic pesticides that can negatively affect farmer and environmental health.
Weather variability and extreme shocks in Africa: Are female or male farmers more affected?
Agriculture in Africa has been traditionally seen as an important employment provider, supporting agriculture-based livelihoods of the vast majority of the African population, (James, 2014; World Bank, 2011) and absorbing the largest share of the
Mismeasurement and efficiency estimates: Evidence from smallholder survey data in Africa
Smallholder agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa is commonly characterized by high levels of technical inefficiency.
COVID-19 school closures and mental health of adolescent students: Evidence from rural Mozambique
Low-cost and sustainable agricultural management practices are being promoted in many countries but continue to face low adoption among farmers.
Policy drivers of Africa’s agriculture transformation: A CAADP biennial review account
This paper assesses the nature of agricultural transformation taking place in different parts of Africa and analyzes policy drivers of the transformation using data from the CAADP Biennial Review (BR) on 46 indicators from 2014 to 2018.