Buy as you need: Nutrition and food storage imperfections in Burkina Faso Creating village-level cooperatives to buy grain from outside sources and sell it locally reduced nutritional stress, especially among the young Agriculture Jeremie Gross Catherine Guirkinger Jean-Philippe Platteau Published 04.05.20
Impacts of water loss on low-income farmers in India Farmers with dried up wells cultivate less land with fewer profitable crops, while taking up relatively more off-farm employment opportunities Agriculture David Blakeslee Ram Fishman Veena Srinivasan Published 20.03.20
Temporary agricultural input subsidies have lasting impacts: The Mozambique experiment Subsidies need not be permanent to benefit farmers. Well-designed policy that encourages experimentation can generate widespread and lasting impacts. Agriculture Michael R. Carter Rachid Laajaj Dean Yang Published 21.10.19
The effects of land reforms on farm size and agricultural productivity Land reforms, whilst well-intended, misallocate land and labour across farms, thereby reducing average farm size and agricultural productivity Agriculture Tasso Adamopoulos Diego Restuccia Published 08.07.19
Workers unite: Cooperative property rights and development in El Salvador Evidence from land reform in El Salvador shows that private property rights are not necessarily more efficient than cooperative property rights Agriculture Eduardo Montero Published 29.04.19
How do farmers cope with extreme heat? When exposed to harmful high temperatures, subsistence farmers increase their use of land and change their crop mix to mitigate the decline in output Agriculture Fernando Aragon Francisco Oteiza Juan Pablo Rud Published 18.03.19
Improving agricultural extension and information services in the developing world Information services can substantially increase the productivity and profitability of smallholder farmers as long as certain criteria are met Agriculture Richard Caldwell Rachel Lambert Jeremy Magruder Craig McIntosh Tavneet Suri Published 11.01.19
Misperceived quality: Fertiliser in Tanzania Evidence from Tanzania shows fertiliser quality is not the problem, rather it is farmers’ perceived belief of bad fertiliser quality that is Agriculture Hope Michelson Anna Fairbairn Annemie Maertens Brenna Ellison Victor Manyong Published 09.12.18
Climate change and Indian agriculture Climate change could reduce farm incomes by 15-18%, and by as much as 20-25% in un-irrigated areas Agriculture Siddharth Hari Parth Khare Arvind Subramanian Published 06.08.18
