In the Indian family setting, women play a crucial role in the overall development of the households. Hence, development agencies and government programs mainly target women, assuming that empowering women would improve families.
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Between 2009 and 2018, the Chinese government introduced a nationwide reform to register land title for rural individual households in over 600,000 villages.
The United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS), held in September of 2021, aimed to move food systems transformation to the top of the global policy agenda.
This paper analyzes the correlation of irrigation investments among agricultural households across India’s 20 major states with irrigation governance and agricultural productivity.
conference paper
Food security – Status and determinants – During the COVID-19 lockdown: Evidence from primary survey in eastern India
Lockdowns induced by COVID-19 have threatened food security in most developing countries.
conference paper
Irrigation and agricultural transformation in Ethiopia
The climate change forecasts for Ethiopia predict higher temperature and rainfall and increased variability in rainfall with periodic severe droughts and floods.
conference paper
Agricultural intensification: Who intensifies and how does it contribute to income growth?
Ethiopia has made substantial efforts in the last three decades to increase agricultural productivity through modern input intensification and stimulate overall economic growth.
conference paper
Leading the way: Foreign direct investment and dairy value chain upgrading in Uganda
Driven by increased demand from both local and export markets and facilitated by far-reaching liberalization and privatization policies, the dairy sub-sector in Uganda has undergone significant changes in the last decade.
conference paper
ICTs to address information inefficiencies in food supply chains
In developing countries, incomplete and/or asymmetric information contributes to inefficiencies in food supply chains.
conference paper
The impact of Ethiopia's direct seed marketing approach on smallholders' access to seeds, productivity, and commercialization
Several factors contribute to the low level of improved variety use in Ethiopia.
conference paper
Agricultural value chains and structural transformation in Senegal: A product space approach
Using the product-space approach and BACI dataset for the period 1995-2014, we analyze the role of agricultural value chains selected under Agricultural Policy Support Project (PAPA) in Senegal’s structural transformation process.
conference paper
Medium scale farms for agricultural transformation and poverty reduction: Evidence from Burkina Faso
This study explores how the change in land distribution influences agricultural transformation and poverty reduction in Burkina Faso.
conference paper
Working women and caste in India: A study of social disadvantage using feature attribution
Women belonging to the socially disadvantaged caste-groups in India have historically been engaged in labour-intensive, blue-collar work.
To estimate the impact of urban growth on agricultural and rural nonfarm income growth we develop an urban gravity variable that reflects the economic activity of a city– total nighttime light emitted – which is a proxy income of each city.
Presented at the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association 2016 Annual Meeting, July 31-August 2, Boston, Massachusetts