Policy and Advocacy
Hiding Or Pleasing: Spousal Disagreement Among Ugandan Maize Farmers
UgandaBJORN VAN CAMPENHOUT, ELS LECOUTERE AND DAVID J....
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To gain a better understanding of intrahousehold bargaining processes, surveys increasingly collect data from co-heads individually, especially on decision-making, asset ownership and labour contributions. However, answers provided by co-heads to the...

Agri-Food News and Media
Gendered Perceptions In Maize Supply Chains: Evidence From Uganda
UgandaBJORN VAN CAMPENHOUT AND ANUSH DE
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n situations with imperfect information, the way that value chain actors perceive each other is an important determinant of the value chain's structure and performance. Inaccurate perceptions may result in inefficient value chains, and systematic bia...

Nutrition
Stories Of Change In Nutrition
All CountriesDEREK D. HEADEY, STUART GILLESPIE, RASMI AVULA, et...
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How does nutrition improve? We need to understand better what drives both positive and negative change in different contexts, and what more can be done to reduce malnutrition. Since 2015, the Stories of Change in Nutrition studies have analysed and d...

Food Safety
The Impact Of Intrahousehold Cooperation On Welfare In East African Agricultural Households
UgandaELS LECOUTERE AND BJORN VAN CAMPENHOUT
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In low- and middle-income countries, poor cooperation between members of smallholder agricultural households may lead to inefficient allocation of productive resources. This study estimates the causal mediating effects of cooperation between spouses...

Food Safety
Upside Risk, Consumption Value, And Market Returns To Food Safety
All CountriesVIVIAN HOFFMANN, SARAH KARIUKI, JANNEKE PIETERS AN...
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We investigate the effect of a modest food safety premium on semisubsistence farmers' investment in a food safety technology. We demonstrate theoretically that in the face of production uncertainty, a market incentive below the marginal production co...

Policy and Advocacy
Action Against Invasive Species: Charcoal Production, Beekeeping, And Prosopis Eradication In Kenya
KenyaMARTIN PAUL JR TABE-OJONG
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Prosopis juliflora is an invasive alien leguminous tree introduced as a way of combating desertification, deforestation, and improving soil fertility. Over time, the tree has reported significant negative externalities to farmers. Different strategie...

Agri-Food News and Media
Organic Soil Amendments And Food Security
CameroonMARTIN PAUL JR. TABE-OJONG, AKEM NINA FABININ, JUL...
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Food insecurity remains a persistent policy issue in many developing countries. While socio-political, epidemiological, climatic, and productivity-related factors have received attention regarding food insecurity, a rarely considered factor is the ch...

Agri-Food News and Media
Measuring Changes In The Ethiopia’s Agri-Food System
EthiopiaIFPRI
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Transformation of the agri-food system (AFS) is a leading pathway to achieve the USG Global Food Security Strategy Objective 1 of “Inclusive agriculture-led growth”. The AFS encompasses the primary agricultural sector, as well as all upstream and dow...

Measuring Changes In The Democratic Republic Of Congo (DRC)’s Agri-Food System
Congo (DRC)IFPRI
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Transformation of the agri-food system (AFS) is a leading pathway to achieve the USG Global Food Security Strategy Objective 1 of “Inclusive agriculture-led growth”. The AFS encompasses the primary agricultural sector, as well as all upstream and dow...

Agri-Food News and Media
Measuring Changes In Ghana’s Agri-Food System
GhanaIFPRI
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Transformation of the agri-food system (AFS) is a leading pathway to achieve the USG Global Food Security Strategy Objective 1 of “Inclusive agriculture-led growth”. The AFS encompasses the primary agricultural sector, as well as all upstream and dow...

Marketing and Trade
Price Predictors In An Extended Hedonic Regression Framework: An Application To Wholesale Cattle Markets In Ethiopia
EthiopiaFANTU NISRANE BACHEWE, DEREK D. HEADEY AND BART MI...
Livestock and Small Ruminants

Livestock markets influence income generation for producers, but also accessibility and affordability of highly nutritious animal-sourced foods for consumers. Despite their importance, the functioning of livestock markets in lower-income countries is...

Marketing and Trade
Measuring Consumption Over The Phone: Evidence From A Survey Experiment In Urban Ethiopia
EthiopiaGASHAW TADESSE ABATE, ALAN DE BRAUW, KALLE HIRVONE...
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The paucity of reliable, timely household consumption data in many low- and middle-income countries have made it difficult to assess how global poverty has evolved during the COVID-19 pandemic. Standard poverty measurement requires collecting househo...