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Weather variability and extreme shocks in Africa: Are female or male farmers more affected?
African agriculture is highly sensitive to weather variability and extreme weather shocks. The question of how weather events affect participation in agricultural employment—including from a gender perspective—remains unanswered.
Exploring micronutrient deficiency risks in Africa using projections of the food system
Micronutrient deficiencies (MND) remain an important challenge in the 21st century, complicated by climate, economic, and demographic change.
Scaling-up agricultural innovations: Who should be targeted?
We adopt the newly redefined marginal treatment effect (MTE) framework to examine how farmers' resource endowment and unobserved factors affect the marginal benefit of adopting sustainable intensification of agricultural practices (SI practices),
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.
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.
The ever-increasing demand for water, food, and energy is putting unsustainable pressure on natural resources worldwide, often leading to environmental degradation that, in turn, affect water, food, and energy security.
Last mile energy access for productive energy use in agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa: What and where is the potential?
Sub -Saharan Africa has long been beset with food insecurity. Agriculture in the region is predominantly rainfed, which makes the sector highly vulnerable to climate variability.
Polygynous family structure and child undernutrition in Africa: Empirical evidence from Nigeria
A growing interest is emerging in the literature to explore how child nutrition is affected by sociocultural practices, such as polygyny.
Empowering women with digital extension in Uganda: Effects of information and role models
In many developing countries, agricultural extension services are generally biased towards men, with information targeted mainly to male members of a farming household and in formats that are rarely tailored to women.
Do grassroots interventions relax behavioral constraints to the adoption of nutrition-sensitive food production systems?
In many developing countries, agricultural policies and programs are often designed in a way to promote productivity growth with modern inputs and technologies, and with limited reference to the nutrition gains that gain be made through production
Optimizing agricultural insurance to meet the demands of farmers: Evidence from India
It is widely recognized that local management of common pool resources can be more ecient and more e↵ective than private markets or top- own government management, especially in remote rural communities in which the institutions necessary for the
Do agriculture interventions increase aspirations? An examination from the lens of caste and gender
We use priming, a concept popular in social psychology, to study the effect of identity salience on aspirations for one’ self and children as part of an impact evaluation in Odisha, India.
Intrahousehold valuation, preference heterogeneity, and demand for an agricultural technology in India
In this paper we examine some of the intrahousehold decisionmaking dynamics that shape household’s decision to adopt a mechanical rice transplanting technology that significantly reduces the demand for labor during transplanting.
An ex-ante assessment of the effects of widespread adoption of CSA.
Changing patterns in the international movement of crop genetic material: An analysis of global policy drivers and potential consequences
During the last several years, a series of important policy changes affecting genetic resource conservation, use, and exchange have entered into force.
The impact of Bt Cotton on farmers’ health in Pakistan
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.
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