Many rural development programs aim at improving women’s economic empowerment in agriculture, but as rural income continues to diversify, women may prefer investing in nonfarm activities.

Robust income growth combined with the highest urban population growth in the world is driving very rapid changes in the food system of Sub-Saharan Africa.

The purpose of this paper is to characterize pesticide use in developing Sub-Saharan Africa (dSSA) in the context of urbanization, income growth, and food system change.

This paper describes and tests the feasibility of Picture-Based Crop Insurance (PBI), a new way to deliver affordable and easy-to-understand insurance.

Bundling agricultural insurance with climate-smart technologies and practices (CSA) can help improve risk management for smallholder farmers. This paper analyzes how bundling affects demand for insurance and CSA.

Improving the quality of agricultural inputs used by farmers is a potentially important instrument to improve productivity and food security.

An ex-ante assessment of the effects of widespread adoption of CSA.

During the last several years, a series of important policy changes affecting genetic resource conservation, use, and exchange have entered into force.

We explore the determinants of firm exit and growth in the food processing sector using nationally representative data for 745 firms in Ghana. In our sample, 168 of the firms exited the sector during the period 2014-2017.

Despite substantial research on the economic impacts of Bt cotton, there is still limited work on the technology s impacts on human health, particularly the impacts associated with reductions in pesticide use.

There is growing interest in understanding the links between land reforms, land markets and poverty reduction in Africa.

Malnutrition is one of the biggest public health challenges of the century with about 2 billion people affected by it globally.

Simulation models are powerful tools that help us understand, analyze, and explain dynamic, complex systems.

Prior to the 1980s, information on agricultural incentives provided by governments was extremely limited and difficult to access. Much debate took place on the basis of participants’ preferred alternative facts.