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Kalyani Raghunathan

Kalyani Raghunathan is Research Fellow in the Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion Unit, based in New Delhi, India. Her research lies at the intersection of agriculture, gender, social protection, and public health and nutrition, with a specific focus on South Asia and Africa. 

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Experimental measures of intra-household resource control

2024Ambler, Kate; Jones, Kelly; Recalde, María P.
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Experimental measures of intra-household resource control

We study experimental measures of preferences for intra-household resource control among 3387 couples in Ghana and Uganda. We implement two incentivized tasks: (1) a game that measures willingness to pay for resource control in the household, and (2) dictator games played privately and jointly by spouses. Across study sites we find that women exhibit a higher willingness to pay for resource control than their husbands and have less influence over joint dictator game decisions. Importantly, behavior in the two tasks is correlated, suggesting that they capture similar underlying latent variables. In Uganda, experimental measures from both tasks are also robustly correlated with a range of survey measures of women’s access to resources, agency, and wellbeing. This is not the case in Ghana, suggesting that contextual factors may be important, and researchers may want to collect both measures in a project. Like other recent papers, we find that an important fraction of respondents display negative willingness to pay for intra-household resource control. Our analysis shows that such behavior is displayed by women who have higher levels of economic empowerment and wellbeing, a result that contradicts previous conjectures made in the literature. Altogether, our analysis suggests that, despite lacking ideal theoretical properties, private dictator game decisions (even when collected only from the wife) can perform well as proxies of empowerment. JEL Codes: C9, D13, J12, J16

Year published

2024

Authors

Ambler, Kate; Jones, Kelly; Recalde, María P.

Citation

Ambler, Kate; Jones, Kelly; and Recalde, María P. 2024. Experimental measures of intra-household resource control. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 227(November 2024): 106705. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2024.106705

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Ghana; Uganda

Keywords

Africa; Eastern Africa; Western Africa; Bargaining Power; Decision Making; Households; Women’s Empowerment; Gender; Women

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English

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Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

Links

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2024.106705 Source record

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Policies, Institutions, and Markets

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Survey of Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises in Agri-Food Value Chains: Network-Based Recruitment Approach in Uganda

2024International Food Policy Research Institute
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Survey of Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises in Agri-Food Value Chains: Network-Based Recruitment Approach in Uganda

The datasets and questionnaires included in this package are derived from the second phase of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) project titled “Digital Financial Services Adoption among Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the Midstream of Agricultural Value Chains.” This project focused on midstream actors within the arabica coffee and soybean value chains in Uganda, utilizing tailored surveys to assess their financial capabilities and constraints. The surveys were conducted in May and June 2023 across the Mbale, Kasese, and Lira districts. The data collection was carried out iteratively to gather information about intermediary actors at various stages of the agri-food value chain. In randomly selected villages within the primary study districts, a small group of farmers participated in a brief survey to identify intermediary actors to whom they had sold commodities in the past 30 days. The identified intermediary actors were then contacted and interviewed using a comprehensive intermediary actor survey. In total, 433 coffee farmers and 247 soybean farmers were interviewed in Uganda. The midstream actor sample for the coffee value chain includes 1,401 traders, 111 processors, 334 wholesalers, and 16 aggregators. For the soybean value chain, the sample consists of 507 traders, 2 processors, 280 wholesalers, 9 storage facilities, and 37 aggregators.

Year published

2024

Authors

International Food Policy Research Institute

Citation

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). 2024. Survey of Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises in Agri-Food Value Chains: Network-Based Recruitment Approach in Uganda. Washington, DC: IFPRI [dataset]. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/EXJKYH. Harvard Dataverse. Version 1.

Country/Region

Uganda

Keywords

Africa; Sub-saharan Africa; Eastern Africa; Agrifood Systems; Small and Medium Enterprises; Value Chains; Networks; Soybeans; Coffee

Language

English

Access/Licence

Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

Links

https://doi.org/10.7910/dvn/exjkyh Source record

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Data Paper

2022 Social Accounting Matrix for Uganda: A Nexus Project SAM

2024International Food Policy Research Institute
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2022 Social Accounting Matrix for Uganda: A Nexus Project SAM

The 2022 Uganda Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) follows IFPRI’s Standard Nexus SAM approach, by focusing on consistency, comparability, and transparency of data. The Nexus SAMs available on IFPRI’s website separates domestic production into 42 activities. Factors are disaggregated into labor, agricultural land, and capital, with labor further disaggregated across three education-based categories. The household account is divided into 10 representative household groups: Rural and urban households across per capita consumption quintiles. Nexus SAMs support the improvement of model-based research and policy analysis in developing countries and allow for more robust cross-country comparisons of national economic structures, especially agriculture-food systems.

Year published

2024

Authors

International Food Policy Research Institute

Citation

International Food Policy Research Institute. 2024. 2022 Social Accounting Matrix for Uganda: A Nexus Project SAM. Data Paper. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. handle: 10568/155063. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/155063.

Country/Region

Uganda

Keywords

Africa; Sub-saharan Africa; Eastern Africa; Macroeconomics; Computable General Equilibrium Models; Household Consumption; Household Expenditure; Economic Indicators; Agrifood Systems; Taxes; Labour

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English

Access/Licence

Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

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Source record

Project

Foresight

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Data Paper

Datasets

Dataset

Survey of Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises in Agri-Food Value Chains: Network-Based Recruitment Approach in Uganda

2024International Food Policy Research Institute
Details

Survey of Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises in Agri-Food Value Chains: Network-Based Recruitment Approach in Uganda

The datasets and questionnaires included in this package are derived from the second phase of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) project titled “Digital Financial Services Adoption among Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the Midstream of Agricultural Value Chains.” This project focused on midstream actors within the arabica coffee and soybean value chains in Uganda, utilizing tailored surveys to assess their financial capabilities and constraints. The surveys were conducted in May and June 2023 across the Mbale, Kasese, and Lira districts. The data collection was carried out iteratively to gather information about intermediary actors at various stages of the agri-food value chain. In randomly selected villages within the primary study districts, a small group of farmers participated in a brief survey to identify intermediary actors to whom they had sold commodities in the past 30 days. The identified intermediary actors were then contacted and interviewed using a comprehensive intermediary actor survey. In total, 433 coffee farmers and 247 soybean farmers were interviewed in Uganda. The midstream actor sample for the coffee value chain includes 1,401 traders, 111 processors, 334 wholesalers, and 16 aggregators. For the soybean value chain, the sample consists of 507 traders, 2 processors, 280 wholesalers, 9 storage facilities, and 37 aggregators.

Year published

2024

Authors

International Food Policy Research Institute

Citation

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). 2024. Survey of Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises in Agri-Food Value Chains: Network-Based Recruitment Approach in Uganda. Washington, DC: IFPRI [dataset]. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/EXJKYH. Harvard Dataverse. Version 1.

Country/Region

Uganda

Keywords

Africa; Sub-saharan Africa; Eastern Africa; Agrifood Systems; Small and Medium Enterprises; Value Chains; Networks; Soybeans; Coffee

Language

English

Access/Licence

Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

Links

https://doi.org/10.7910/dvn/exjkyh Source record

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Dataset

Farm and Family Balance Baseline Survey

2022International Food Policy Research Institute
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Farm and Family Balance Baseline Survey

This is the baseline dataset for the Farm and Family Balance Study. Sample consists of married sugarcane farmers associated with a large sugar company near Jinja, Uganda. All eligible farmers who agreed to participate are included. Both husbands and wives are interviewed. Survey includes questions regarding demographics, sugar production, other agricultural production, time use and employment, and empowerment.

Year published

2022

Authors

International Food Policy Research Institute

Citation

International Food Policy Research Institute. 2022. Farm and Family Balance Baseline Survey. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/Q9NHXR. Harvard Dataverse. Version 1.

Country/Region

Uganda

Keywords

Africa; Sub-saharan Africa; Eastern Africa; Women’s Empowerment; Household Surveys; Sugar Cane; Empowerment; Marriage; Decision Making; Bargaining Power; Women

Language

English

Access/Licence

Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

Links

https://doi.org/10.7910/dvn/q9nhxr Source record

Project

Policies, Institutions, and Markets

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Dataset

Dataset

COVID-19 Impact on Rural Men and Women in Uganda, Round 2

2021International Food Policy Research Institute
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COVID-19 Impact on Rural Men and Women in Uganda, Round 2

This dataset is the result of a phone survey set up to measure the impact of COVID-19 on rural people in Uganda. As most governments have urged the population to stay at home to slow down the transmission of the disease, the impact of COVID-19 can affect women and men in different ways: as an income shock (directly or indirectly); as a health and caring shock; as a shock of mobility (affecting access to water, food, firewood, schooling); and as a risk of increased domestic conflict and violence. To capture these various effects on household welfare, this phone survey was conducted with (around) 1600 individuals randomly drawn from an existing list of phone numbers collected from previous household surveys with an equal proportion of women and men. The same individuals were also interviewed during other rounds to generate a longitudinal panel allowing to analyze the impact of COVID-19 through time.

Year published

2021

Authors

International Food Policy Research Institute

Citation

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). 2021. COVID-19 Impact on Rural Men and Women in Uganda, Round 2. Washington, DC: IFPRI [dataset]. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/RNG38D. Harvard Dataverse. Version 1.

Country/Region

Uganda

Keywords

Africa; Sub-saharan Africa; Western Africa; Shock; Covid-19; Health; Rural Areas; Men; Women

Language

English

Access/Licence

Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

Links

https://doi.org/10.7910/dvn/rng38d Source record

Project

Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

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Dataset

Blogs

Enhancing milk quality in Uganda: Challenges and innovations in the dairy value chain
IFPRI Blog
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September 09, 2024

Enhancing milk quality in Uganda: Challenges and innovations in the dairy value chain

By Richard Ariong, Bjorn Van Campenhout, Sarah W. Kariuki, and Jordan Chamberlin

Improving market incentives.

Training Ugandan coffee farmers on agronomy practices more than pays for itself
IFPRI Blog
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August 05, 2024

Training Ugandan coffee farmers on agronomy practices more than pays for itself

By Vivian Hoffmann

Promise for boosting yields and income.

Agrifood Value Chains are Complex Transaction-Linked Networks
IFPRI Blog
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March 11, 2024

Agrifood Value Chains are Complex Transaction-Linked Networks

By Kate Ambler, Jeff Bloem, Alan de Brauw, and Julia Wagner

Why simplified linear approaches may fall short.

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Events

Rethinking Research and Policy Analysis for Inclusive and Sustainable Food Markets and Value Chains
IFPRI at External Event

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October 13, 2022, 2:00 – 4:00 pm

Rethinking Research and Policy Analysis for Inclusive and Sustainable Food Markets and Value Chains

Virtual Event: October 13, 2022 – 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM CEST. This side event will involve a panel discussion focused on new directions for research and policy to create the evidence base to inform transformative changes in food markets and deliver on the promise of the SDGs.

Multidimensional digitally-enabled agricultural extension in Africa: Accelerating agricultural transformation in the face of global crises
IFPRI at External Event

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August 26, 2022, 6:30 – 9:15 am

Multidimensional digitally-enabled agricultural extension in Africa: Accelerating agricultural transformation in the face of global crises

Virtual Event: August 26, 2022 – 6:30 AM to 9:15 AM EDT. This event will highlight trends, good practices, and recommendations for multidimensional, digitally-enables agricultural extension.

Policy Responses to the Gendered Impacts of COVID-19 in the Africa Region
IFPRI Program/Country Event

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November 16, 2021, 8:00 – 10:00 am

Policy Responses to the Gendered Impacts of COVID-19 in the Africa Region

Virtual Event: Nov 16, 2021 – 08:00 AM to 10:00 AM EST. This policy dialogue explores the gender-differentiated impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on men and women in rural areas of selected countries in sub-Saharan Africa. 

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News

April 15, 2023 | In the News

Fertilisers: Chemical or organic, soils need replenishment (Monitor) 

“According to IFPRI, while Uganda has one of the highest soil nutrient depletion rates in the world, it has one of the lowest rates of annual inorganic fertilizer application – only 1.8kg per hectare compared to 2.6kg/ha world average, writes The Monitor (Uganda).  Soil fertility decline is one of the binding constraints to agricultural growth […]

October 17, 2022 | Press Release

Agricultural information systems continue to fail women—Videos can make a difference

Nairobi: Over 80 participants gathered today in Nairobi for an event entitled ‘Reaching Small-Scale Women Farmers with Innovative Climate Resilience Strategies.’ The discussion focused on the challenges reported by women farmers in Kenya when it comes to accessing agricultural information, how these challenges intensified during the COVID-19 pandemic, and possible approaches that could bridge this […]

August 24, 2022 | In the News

Strength to you, independent Ukraine (Monitor) 

Monitor (Uganda Edition) published an article stating that August 24 also marks six months since Russia launched its brutal, illegal invasion of the sovereign nation of Ukraine. Since Ukraine’s independence in 1991, a proud, internationally engaged country, and one committed to freedom and the principles of the UN Charter, has emerged. Ukraine has become a […]

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Projects

Spatial Typologies for Targeted Food and Nutrition Security Interventions

Spatial Typologies for Targeted Food and Nutrition Security Interventions

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Strengthening Food Systems to Promote Increased Value Chain Employment Opportunities for Youth

Strengthening Food Systems to Promote Increased Value Chain Employment Opportunities for Youth

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Digital Financial Services Adoption

Digital Financial Services Adoption

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