This working paper explores the state of food security and nutrition in Myanmar using 6 rounds of nationally representative household panel data collected from December 2021 to November 2023.

Progress toward reducing global hunger has stalled since the mid-2010s.

Across sub-Saharan Africa, countries with a greater percentage of overlapping days in their school and farming calendars also have lower primary school survival rates.

The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the Federal Government of Nigeria implemented the Nigeria Value Chain Development Program (VCDP) across six Nigerian states with the objective to improve farmer organizations’ collecti

Large-scale challenges such as climate change, malnutrition, reducing biodiversity, social inequities, and poverty threaten the well-being of millions of smallholders in the Global South.

COVID-19 risks rolling back many of the efforts and global successes recorded in reducing poverty and food insecurity.

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.

The optimal design of informal contracts in agricultural value chains depends on when farmers prefer to be paid for their output.

These files consist of the do-files and data for reproducing results presented in the article, "The Gendered Impacts of Income Fluctuations on Household Departure, Labor Supply, and Human Capital Decisions" (Kosec et al., 2021).

This paper applies a recurrent neural network (RNN) method to forecast cotton and oil prices. We show how these new tools from machine learning, particularly Long-Short Term Memory (LSTM) models, complement traditional methods.

This paper attempts to identify the determinants of access to the KCC program and empirically evaluate its impact on farmers’ use of agricultural inputs and farm household incomes in Eastern India.

The paper explores the spread of crop insurance in India and analyzes the factors affecting the demand for crop insurance. The study also assesses the impact of crop insurance on the rice yields of smallholder rice producers.

As resource users interact and impose externalities onto each other, institutions are needed to coordinate resource use, create trust, and provide incentives for sustainable management.

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Agricultural development has long been considered an important driver of overall economic development in developing countries such as Nigeria.