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Emily Schmidt is a Senior Research Fellow in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit. Her most recent research explores household livelihood strategies in Papua New Guinea, including linkages between agriculture, poverty, and nutrition outcomes among rural smallholder farmers.

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Mike Murphy is a Senior Research Analyst with the Markets, Trade, and Institutions Unit, and a PhD student in Economics at the University of Bordeaux. He works primarily on the OneHealth CGIAR Initiative focusing on the intersection of human, animal, and environmental health. His research looks at how individual decision-making around risk affects outcomes in policy areas including food safety, anti-microbial resistance, and zoonotic disease.

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Business and public health impacts of a food safety rating program among pork vendors in Vietnam

2024Murphy, Mike; Dang-Xuan, Sinh; Hoffmann, Vivian; Le-Thi-Huyen, Trang; Unger, Fred; Pham-Thi, Huong; Nguyen-Quang, Duy; Nguyen-Viet, Hung
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Business and public health impacts of a food safety rating program among pork vendors in Vietnam

Pork is the most widely consumed meat in Vietnam (OECD, 2023), where traditional food markets typically lacking refrigeration account for 84% of retail trade (USDA, 2024). Previous research by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and its partners found that over 60% of meat samples collected from such markets were contaminated with Salmonella (Ngo et al., 2023). This situation is typical of food markets in low and middle-income countries, where foodborne illness is estimated to claim 420,000 lives (Havelaar, et al., 2015) and cause a productivity loss of US$95 billion annually (Jaffee, Henson, Unnevehr, Grace, & Cassou, 2019). Adherence to basic food and hand hygiene practices among meat vendors has the potential to reduce contamination cost-effectively, but would require either market incentives or regulatory enforcement, both of which are often absent in traditional markets. Punitive approaches to enforcement of food safety standards can backfire – for example, vendors may evade regulators by moving to informal markets that lack access to even basic water infrastructure. Further, shutting down non-compliant vendors could reduce access to nutritious foods among low-income consumers.

Year published

2024

Authors

Murphy, Mike; Dang-Xuan, Sinh; Hoffmann, Vivian; Le-Thi-Huyen, Trang; Unger, Fred; Pham-Thi, Huong; Nguyen-Quang, Duy; Nguyen-Viet, Hung

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Ambler, Kate; Murphy, Mike; Dang-Xuan, Sinh; Hoffmann, Vivian; Le-Thi-Huyen, Trang; Unger, Fred; Pham-Thi, Huong; Nguyen-Quang, Duy; and Nguyen-Viet, Hung. 2024. Business and public health impacts of a food safety rating program among pork vendors in Vietnam. IFPRI Working Paper December 2024. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/168837

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Vietnam

Keywords

Asia; South-eastern Asia; Pork; Markets; Salmonella; Food Contamination; Food Hygiene; Food Safety; Economic Aspects

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English

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Open Access

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One Health

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Consumer response to food safety risk information

2024Hoffmann, Vivian; Murphy, Mike; Kariuki, Sarah
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Consumer response to food safety risk information

Unsafe food imposes significant health and productivity burdens on developing countries. We test the impact of a simple information intervention through which low-income urban consumers in Kenya were provided information about the likelihood that maize flour from the formal and informal sector violated a food safety standard. We find a 42 percent increase in the share of households consuming the similarly priced, lower risk formal sector flour type at follow-up in the treatment group relative to the control group, from a base of 33 percent. The intervention was equally effective for households earning below and above the sample median income level. Our results demonstrate the potential for low-cost interventions to increase the salience of food safety as a product attribute in informal markets or where regulatory enforcement is weak.

Year published

2024

Authors

Hoffmann, Vivian; Murphy, Mike; Kariuki, Sarah

Citation

Hoffmann, Vivian; Murphy, Mike; and Kariuki, Sarah. 2024. Consumer response to food safety risk information. IFPRI Discussion Paper 2305. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/168191

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Consumers; Food Safety; Health; Households; Productivity

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English

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Open Access

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One Health

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Uganda coffee agronomy training: Impact evaluation report

2024Hoffmann, Vivian; Murphy, Mike; Harigaya, Tomoko
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Uganda coffee agronomy training: Impact evaluation report

This report describes the methods and findings of a randomized controlled trial evaluating the impact of coffee agronomy training and phone-based advisory services on farmer practices and observed coffee yield. In-person training was provided in randomly selected villages over the course of two years by Hanns R. Neuman Stiftung (HRNS) and TechnoServe in two separate regions of Western Uganda encompassing six districts. Messages reinforcing this training were sent to a subset of farmers in villages where training was offered by Precision Development (PxD), and standalone messages were sent to a subset of farmers in villages where no training was offered. The program period spanned the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdowns, which significantly affected how training could be delivered and likely reduced its impact.

Year published

2024

Authors

Hoffmann, Vivian; Murphy, Mike; Harigaya, Tomoko

Citation

Hoffmann, Vivian; Murphy, Mike; and Harigaya, Tomoko. 2024. Uganda coffee agronomy training: Impact evaluation report. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149080

Country/Region

Uganda

Keywords

Africa; Eastern Africa; Sub-saharan Africa; Agronomy; Coffee; Crop Yield; Impact Assessment; Costs

Language

English

Access/Licence

Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

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Source record

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Policies, Institutions, and Markets

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Report

Blogs

Exploring farmer adoption of conservation agriculture using a lab-in-the-field approach
IFPRI Blog
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September 02, 2020

Exploring farmer adoption of conservation agriculture using a lab-in-the-field approach

By Mike Murphy, Kate Ambler, and Alan de Brauw

Testing the role of subsidies in adopting techniques to build long-term resilience.

Do you remember? Measuring anchoring bias in recall data
IFPRI Research Blog
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March 16, 2018

Do you remember? Measuring anchoring bias in recall data

By Susan Godlonton, Manuel Hernandez, and Mike Murphy

Standard social science interview techniques may not be accounting for cognitive bias, a new study finds.

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CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture Convention
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October 3 to 5, 2018

CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture Convention

IFPRI Staff are participating in the CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture co-hosted by the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) taking place October 3-5, 2018 at the Campus of the World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF) in Nairobi, Kenya. This convention is the second yearly event to bring together the people and organizations that make the […]