This paper uses comprehensive and long time series monthly food price data and a panel dyadic regression framework to evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated policy responses on spatial market integration across a diverse set o
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Agricultural transformation and market integration in the ASEAN region: Responding to food security and inclusiveness concerns
Effects of weather and food market risks on household agriculture-nutrition linkage: Micro-level insights from India
The political economy of reforming agricultural support policies
Agricultural support policies cost more than US$800 billion per year in transfers to the farm sector worldwide.
Innovation for Agribusiness (InovAgro): Household- and market-level impacts of value chain interventions
Agriculture, in Mozambique, is characterized by production systems that are based predominantly on rainfed conditions and on low use of yield enhancing agricultural inputs.
Improving trust and reciprocity in agricultural input markets: A lab-in-the-field experiment in Bangladesh
Adoption of high-quality yet more expensive agricultural inputs remains low, in part because most inputs are experience goods: before purchase, buyers observe only price—not quality—providing sellers with opportunities to cheat on quality.
Return to quality in rural agricultural markets: Evidence from wheat markets in Ethiopia
In many Sub-Saharan countries, farmers cannot meet the growing urban demand for higher quality products, leading to increasing dependency on imports.
Digital tools and agricultural market transformation in Africa: Why are they not at scale yet, and what will it take to get there?
Despite enthusiasm on the potential of digital innovations to transform agricultural markets in Africa, progress made thus far has been limited to small-scale experiments that often fail to scale up.
Solar-powered cold-storages and sustainable food system transformation: Evidence from horticulture markets interventions in northeast Nigeria
Modern cooling technologies that utilize renewable energy sources have been increasingly recognized as a promising tool to address a multitude of challenges emerging in progressively complex food systems in developing countries.
School meals as a market for smallholder agriculture: Experimental evidence from Ghana
Governments and international development partners investing over $40 USD billion a year in school meals have shown interest in linking these programs with agriculture sector development, through what has become known as “Home-Grown” school feedin
Regulatory options to improve seed systems for vegetatively propagated crops in developing countries
In many developing countries, smallholder farmers cultivating vegetatively propagated crops (VPCs) have limited access to quality planting material. This constraint can limit both the yield of and returns on VPC cultivation.
Yielding profits? Low adoption of an improved mung bean seed variety in Southern Bangladesh
Agricultural technology adoption is an important driver of rural poverty reduction. We study take-up of a specific technology: BARI-Mung 6 (BM6), an improved mung bean seed variety, among smallholder farmers in the southern region of Bangladesh.
Agrifood market participation, household economies of specialization and diversification: Evidence from Vietnam
Despite the growth of agrifood markets, and gradual structural transformation, smallholders persist in Asia.
Unlike physical losses, deterioration of food safety can be difficult to observe. In low- and middle- income countries, much of the food supply is never tested for safety hazards.
Agriculture-nutrition linkages, cooking-time, intrahousehold equality among women and children: Evidence from Tajikistan
Household-level agriculture-nutrition linkage (ANL) tends to be strong in a rural subsistence setting with limited access to the food market.
Information, technology, and market rewards: Incentivizing aflatoxin control in Ghana
Food safety hazards threaten the health and market access of smallholder farming households.
This paper assesses the role of the private sector by using the case study of Cambodia to learn specific lessons for increasing the resilience of food systems in the developing world.
Intertemporal choice and income regularity: Non-fungibility in a lab-in-the-field experiment
Motivated by evidence of mental accounting, this paper tests whether the choice of when to be paid depends on the income type.
Impact of India’s National Food Security Act on domestic and international rice markets
Policy making in food security is at a crossroads in India, particularly for the rice crop.
Nutrition transition and the structure of global food demand
Estimating future demand for food is a critical aspect of global food security analyses.