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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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Liangzhi You

Liangzhi You is a Senior Research Fellow and theme leader in the Foresight and Policy Modeling Unit, based in Washington, DC. His research focuses on climate resilience, spatial data and analytics, agroecosystems, and agricultural science policy. Gridded crop production data of the world (SPAM) and the agricultural technology evaluation model (DREAM) are among his research contributions. 

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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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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.

Keywords

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

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Uganda

Keywords

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

Language

English

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Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

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Policies, Institutions, and Markets

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Report

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FarmUSE: Assessment of antimicrobial use in poultry farms

2024Muloi, Dishon M.; Ibayi, Eugine L.; Murphy, Mike; Njaramba, Jane; Nielsen, S.S.; Hoffmann, Vivian; Moodley, Arshnee
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FarmUSE: Assessment of antimicrobial use in poultry farms

Antimicrobial use in livestock systems is thought to be a key driver for the development of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Therefore, efforts to reduce antimicrobial use are seen as a key intervention to controlling AMR. Understanding the patterns of antimicrobial use in different production systems is essential. Antimicrobials are commonly used in poultry production for disease treatment, prevention and, to an extent, growth promotion. In low- and middle-income countries, surveillance of antimicrobial use in animals is hampered by the lack of standardised data collection tools and reporting systems across different countries and regions. To address this gap, these tools were developed and adapted to poultry broiler production systems to support the collection of comprehensive data related to demographics, production and antibiotic usage data. The tools are designed for both retrospective and prospective data gathering.

Year published

2024

Authors

Muloi, Dishon M.; Ibayi, Eugine L.; Murphy, Mike; Njaramba, Jane; Nielsen, S.S.; Hoffmann, Vivian; Moodley, Arshnee

Citation

Muloi, D.M., Ibayi, E.L., Murphy, M., Njaramba, J., Nielsen, S.S., Hoffmann, V. and Moodley, A. 2024. FarmUSE: Assessment of antimicrobial use in poultry farms. Nairobi, Kenya: ILRI.

Country/Region

Kenya

Keywords

Africa; Eastern Africa; Antimicrobial Resistance; Data; Poultry

Language

English

Access/Licence

Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

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Source record

Project

One Health

Record type

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.

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 […]