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Production risks, risk preference and contract farming: Impact on food security in India

This article reviews the literature on contract farming (CF) in India and assesses the impact of smallholders’ perceived production risks on the adoption of CF; the impact of CF on smallholders’ food security; and its impact on employment generati

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Agricultural water allocation under uncertainty: Redistribution of water shortage risk

This article develops an economic model to analyze how the risk of water shortages affects farmers’ land irrigation decision and how the priority-based water sharing arrangement redistributes such a risk among farms with different water rights pri

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Animal sourced foods (ASF) and child stunting

Agricultural policies that improve the accessibility & affordability of ASF (dairy, eggs, & meat/fish) play an important role in nutrition & health, including the prevention of stunting.

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Dietary diversity predicts the adequacy of micronutrient intake in pregnant adolescent girls and women in Bangladesh, but use of the 5-group cutoff poorly identifies individuals with inadequate intake

The Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women (MDD-W) indicator based on a 10-food group women dietary diversity score (WDDS-10) has been validated to assess dietary quality in nonpregnant women.

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Comparing modeling approaches for assessing priorities in international agricultural research

This article examines how the estimated impacts of crop technologies vary with alternate methods and assumptions, and also discusses the implications of these differences for the design of studies to inform research prioritization.

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A research agenda for international agricultural trade

International trade is likely to be a hugely important and interesting area for research by agricultural and applied economists in the next decade.