Data from 3 irrigation schemes in Mozambique reveal patterns consistent with water inefficiency. A feedback tool could visually communicate ways to conserve by varying water applications at each stage of the crop cycle.
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International humanitarian organizations have expressed substantial concern about the potential for increases in food insecurity resulting from the COVID‐19 pandemic.
Measurement error mechanisms matter: Agricultural intensification with farmer misperceptions and misreporting
This paper was named AAEA's Best Paper at their 2022 Annual Meeting.
Information and communication technologies to provide agricultural advice to smallholder farmers: Experimental evidence from Uganda
Agricultural advisory services generally rely on interpersonal knowledge transfers by agricultural extension agents who visit farmers to provide information.
Rural Chinese smallholders with an option to make delayed premium payments have higher levels of insurance uptake and investment in production than those without the option.
Rural food markets and child nutrition
Improved access to high-quality markets with a wide array of healthy foods at affordable prices
will deliver sizable improvements in rural diets.
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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Extreme weather and civil war
A growing body of evidence shows a causal relationship between extreme weather events and civil conflict incidence at the global level.