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With research staff from more than 60 countries, and offices across the globe, IFPRI provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition in developing countries.

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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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Markets, Trade, and Institutions

Mike Murphy

Senior Research Analyst

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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.

Publications

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Publications

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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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Policies, Institutions, and Markets

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Report

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Aflatoxin contamination of maize flour in Kenya: Results from multi-city, multi-round surveillance

2023Barasa, Allan; Hoffmann, Vivian; Murphy, Mike; Ndisio, Boaz; Okoth, Sheila A.
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Aflatoxin contamination of maize flour in Kenya: Results from multi-city, multi-round surveillance

This research was undertaken to characterise the level and distribution of aflatoxin contamination of maize flour, a key food safety concern in Kenya. More than 1,200 samples of maize flour were collected and analyzed over the course of one year, allowing a robust characterization of relative risk across geography and product type. Informally milled flour was found to be significantly more contaminated than branded flour, a result attributable to the refining process applied to this flour. The results of this study can be used to inform messaging to consumers about the relative riskiness of informally versus formally milled flour, and for geographical targeting of resources for aflatoxin mitigation.

Year published

2023

Authors

Barasa, Allan; Hoffmann, Vivian; Murphy, Mike; Ndisio, Boaz; Okoth, Sheila A.

Citation

Barasa, Allan; Hoffmann, Vivian; Murphy, Mike; Ndisio, Boaz; and Okoth, Sheila A. 2023. Aflatoxin contamination of maize flour in Kenya: Results from multi-city, multi-round surveillance. IFPRI Discussion Paper 2217. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.137033

Country/Region

Kenya

Keywords

Africa; Eastern Africa; Aflatoxins; Food Safety; Mycotoxins; Maize Flour; Milling; Risk

Language

English

Access/Licence

Open Access

Links

https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.137033 Source record

Project

One Health

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Working Paper

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Journal Article

Increasing the adoption of conservation agriculture: A framed field experiment in Northern Ghana

2023Ambler, Kate; Brauw, Alan de; Murphy, Mike
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Increasing the adoption of conservation agriculture: A framed field experiment in Northern Ghana

Conservation agriculture techniques have the potential to increase agricultural production while decreasing CO2 emissions, yet adoption in the developing world remains low—in part because many years of continuous adoption may be required to realize gains in production. We conduct a framed field experiment in northern Ghana to study how incentives and peer information may affect adoption. Incentives increase adoption, both while they are available and after withdrawal. There is no overall effect of peer information, but we do find evidence that information about long-term adoption increased adoption, particularly when that information shows that yield gains have been achieved.

Year published

2023

Authors

Ambler, Kate; Brauw, Alan de; Murphy, Mike

Citation

Ambler, Kate; de Brauw, Alan; and Murphy, Mike. 2023. Increasing the adoption of conservation agriculture: A framed field experiment in Northern Ghana. Agricultural Economics 54(5): 742-756. https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.12797

Country/Region

Ghana

Keywords

Africa; Western Africa; Conservation Agriculture; Carbon Dioxide; Agricultural Production; Information; Yields

Language

English

Access/Licence

Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

Links

https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.12797 Source record

Project

Agroecology

Record type

Journal Article

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.

Events

CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture Convention
IFPRI at External Event

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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 […]