Agricultural development

The Green Revolution dramatically altered the agricultural and dietary landscape in India. While calorie availability increased, reduced dietary diversity had adverse long-term health impacts, meaning the overall impact is only now being understood.

Crop theft is an understudied risk faced by smallholder farmers that may impose pervasive costs on farmers. New evidence from Kenya reveals the different ways that theft, and the fear of theft, constrain agricultural development.

An irrigation expansion project in China serves as solid evidence for effective climate change adaptation

Technological improvements alone are unlikely to modernise agriculture if farmers are uncertain about the quality of new innovations

Subsidising land rentals in Kenya increased land access equity and efficiency persistently, highlighting the importance of land markets for agricultural development.

Both demand-side and supply-side interventions are required to boost agricultural quality and productivity

Simple, cost-effective ‘rule-of-thumb’ training on urea application may improve fertiliser management

Farmer-to-farmer information diffusion is a cost-effective approach for improving practices and profits for smallholder dairy farmers in East Africa

A shift from a state-led to an agribusiness-led development model in Kenya reallocated profits away from farmers towards agribusiness firms