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Elodie Becquey

Elodie Becquey is a Senior Research Fellow in the Nutrition, Diets, and Health Unit, based in IFPRI’s West and Central Africa office in Senegal. She has over 15 years of research experience in diet, nutrition, and food security in Africa, including countries such as Burkina Faso, Chad, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, and Tanzania.

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Jeff Bloem is a Research Fellow in the Markets, Trade, and Institutions Unit whose research interest is in applied microeconomics with applications in agriculture, conflict, and psychology. He holds a BS in economics from Calvin College, Michigan; an MS in Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics from Michigan State University; and a PhD in applied economics from the University of Minnesota.

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Agricultural technology adoption and deforestation: Evidence from a randomized control trial

2026Bloem, Jeffrey R.; Lundberg, Clark
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Agricultural technology adoption and deforestation: Evidence from a randomized control trial

We study the effect of the adoption of improved agricultural inputs on deforestation using a randomized control trial in Nigeria which introduced a more efficient and environmentally-friendly nitrogen fertilizer. We combine survey data from the intervention with earth observation data to develop a generalizable method for evaluating the effects of cluster-level interventions on landscape-level outcomes. We find evidence of an intensification response to treatment exposure that reflects significant heterogeneity across land cover. On land with relatively sparse pre-intervention tree cover, treatment exposure increased deforestation while in denser forest areas the intervention reduced deforestation. We find corresponding effects showing treatment exposure increases agricultural productivity. Our results reflect an intensification response to improved agricultural technology that redirects agricultural activity away from forests and towards existing cropland.

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2026

Authors

Bloem, Jeffrey R.; Lundberg, Clark

Citation

Bloem, Jeffrey R.; and Lundberg, Clark. 2026. Agricultural technology adoption and deforestation: Evidence from a randomized control trial. Journal of Development Economics 178(January 2026): 103600. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2025.103600

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Nigeria

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Africa; Western Africa; Sub-saharan Africa; Agricultural Technology; Data; Deforestation; Nitrogen Fertilizer; Surveys

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English

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Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2025.103600 Source record

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Rethinking Food Markets

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Agrifood value chain employment and compensation shift with structural transformation

2025Yi, Jing; Jiang, Shiyun; Tran, Dianna; Gόmez, Miguel I.; Canning, Patrick; Bloem, Jeffrey R.; Barrett, Christopher B.
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Agrifood value chain employment and compensation shift with structural transformation

The traditional structural transformation narrative emphasizes intersectoral labour reallocation out of agriculture, ignoring whether workers exit agrifood value chains or merely migrate within them. Here we decompose multiregional input–output table data into industry- and country-specific annual labour value-added estimates by final consumer market segment, matching them with industry-specific employment data to estimate average worker compensation. Using data covering most of the global economy over 1993–2021, we report ten stylized facts about labour reallocation amid structural transformation. As incomes grow, labour exits primary production while downstream agrifood value chain segments maintain a steady economy-wide employment share—offering jobs that pay better than farm work. Women disproportionately move from primary production to downstream, consumer-facing retail and food service, whereas men migrate to better-paying midstream jobs, increasing gender pay inequality within the value chain. Employment shifts are strongly associated with changes in national per capita income, but not with agricultural total factor productivity growth.

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2025

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Yi, Jing; Jiang, Shiyun; Tran, Dianna; Gόmez, Miguel I.; Canning, Patrick; Bloem, Jeffrey R.; Barrett, Christopher B.

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Yi, Jing; Jiang, Shiyun; Tran, Dianna; Gόmez, Miguel I.; Canning, Patrick; Bloem, Jeffrey R.; and Barrett, Christopher B. 2025. Agrifood value chain employment and compensation shift with structural transformation. Nature Food 6: 868–880. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-025-01225-9

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Agriculture; Agrifood Systems; Value Chains; Labour Allocation; Gender; Income

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English

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Open Access

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-025-01225-9 Source record

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Private sector promotion of agricultural technologies: Experimental evidence from Nigeria

2025Liverpool-Tasie, Lenis Saweda O.; Dillon, Andrew; Bloem, Jeffrey R.; Adjognon, Guigonan Serge
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Private sector promotion of agricultural technologies: Experimental evidence from Nigeria

Private sector agricultural businesses are critical for scaling new and potentially environmentally-friendly technologies, though much attention has focused on public agricultural investment. Working with a private firm, we conduct an experiment testing the effectiveness of alternative marketing strategies for promoting the adoption of urea super granule fertilizer (USG) among rice farmers in Nigeria. We disentangle the effects of price discount vouchers and the firm’s standard marketing package. We find that the firm’s standard marketing increases the adoption of USG fertilizer by 24 percentage points while reducing prilled urea utilization by 17 percentage points. Discount vouchers increase adoption of USG by an additional eight percentage points, but are not profitable for the firm. Although the adoption of USG leads to substantial environmental benefits by reducing nitrogen loss, farmer rice yields did not increase. Thus, despite the potential public benefits, private incentives facing firms and farmers are insufficient to drive scaling after a one-year intervention.

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2025

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Liverpool-Tasie, Lenis Saweda O.; Dillon, Andrew; Bloem, Jeffrey R.; Adjognon, Guigonan Serge

Citation

Liverpool-Tasie, Lenis Saweda O.; Dillon, Andrew; Bloem, Jeffrey R.; and Adjognon, Guigonan Serge. 2025. Private sector promotion of agricultural technologies: Experimental evidence from Nigeria. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 133(September 2025): 103201. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2025.103201

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Nigeria

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Africa; Sub-saharan Africa; Western Africa; Technology Adoption; Private Sector; Nitrogen; Rice; Urea

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English

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Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2025.103201 Source record

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Blogs

Overcoming obstacles and expanding opportunities for digital finance in the midstream of agrifood value chains
IFPRI Blog
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September 12, 2025

Overcoming obstacles and expanding opportunities for digital finance in the midstream of agrifood value chains

By Kate Ambler, Jeffrey Bloem, and Alan de Brauw

Innovations yield benefits across the food system.

Nature’s ‘double dividend’ from agricultural technology adoption
IFPRI Blog
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August 21, 2025

Nature’s ‘double dividend’ from agricultural technology adoption

By Jeffrey Bloem

A form of fertilizer offers advantages to farmers and the environment.

Four lessons for financial innovation in agrifood systems
IFPRI Blog
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July 01, 2025

Four lessons for financial innovation in agrifood systems

By Kate Ambler, Jeffrey Bloem, Alan de Brauw, Mehrab Bakhtiar, and Eduardo Maruyama

Digital apps and other approaches for modernizing value chains.

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2025 Gender Conference: Accelerating Equality in Food, Land, and Water Systems
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October 7 to 9, 2025

2025 Gender Conference: Accelerating Equality in Food, Land, and Water Systems

Join the CGIAR Accelerator Gender Equality & Inclusion, in collaboration with the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and the Western Cape Government, in Cape Town for the 2025 Gender Conference, a pivotal gathering at the intersection of gender equality and sustainable development. This year’s theme, “Accelerating Equality in Food, Land, and Water Systems,” highlights the urgent need […]

2023 Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Annual Meeting
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July 23 to 25, 2023

2023 Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Annual Meeting

Event: July 23, 2023 – 8:30 AM to July 25, 2023 – 4:15 PM EDT. IFPRI is participating in the 2023 Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Annual Meeting.

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September 16, 2025 | In the News

Intensification or expansion? A new approach to measuring agricultural change (VoxDev)

Jeffrey Bloem (IFPRI) and Clark Lundberg (San Diego State University) introduce a new method for linking village-level interventions with high-resolution earth observation data.

July 09, 2025 | In the News

How climate-induced conflict is shaping rural Nigeria (VoxDev) 

Vox Dev published this article by Jeffrey Bloem, Amy Damon, David C. Francis, and Harrison Mitchell on herder-farmer conflicts in Nigeria.