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Since Amartya Sen's famous work on Poverty and Famines, economists have understood that the impacts of food market shocks on the poor depend much more on their impacts on households’ incomes and access to food than on overall food availability, an
Agricultural R&D investment intensity: A misleading conventional measure and a new intensity index
This article argues that the Intensity Ratio is an inadequate indicator of research effort and a misleading conventional measure. Researcher Alejandro Nin-Pratt proposes an alternative index to measure R&D intensity.
Trade, policy, and food security
How can decisionmakers resolve the tension between optimal long-run policies and short-run initiatives to address food security concerns?
New data and new methods have provided many new insights into rural households in the past 50 years.
The rise of medium‐scale farms is affecting the region in diverse ways that are difficult to generalize. Findings indicate that these farms can be a dynamic driver of agricultural transformation.
Economic growth, convergence and agricultural economics
The role of health, experience, and educational attainment in agricultural production: Evidence from smallholders in Burkina Faso
Weather risk: How does it change the yield benefits of nitrogen fertilizer and improved maize varieties in sub‐Saharan Africa?
How does it change the yield benefits of nitrogen fertilizer and improved maize varieties in Africa south of the Sahara?
Diet transformation in Africa: the case of Ethiopia
Four rounds of nationally representative data from Ethiopia document changes in household food consumption patterns.