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Barriers and facilitators to women’s participation in farmer producer organizations: A qualitative study exploring women’s empowerment and collective efficacy in Jharkhand, India
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Buyers’ response to third-party quality certification: Theory and evidence from Ethiopian wheat traders
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Social protection and gender: policy, practice and research
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Measuring land rental market participation in smallholder agriculture can survey design innovations improve land market participation statistics?
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A network-driven data collection approach for agri-food value chains
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Measuring women’s empowerment in national surveys: Development of the Women’s Empowerment Metric for National Statistical Systems (WEMNS)
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Cheong, Yuk Fai; Yount, Kathryn M.; Hassan, Md. Zahidul; Hassan, Md. Imrul; Sharma, Sudhindra; Pokhrel, Pankaj; Sagastume, Mónica Dardón; Kanyanda, Shelton S. E.; Vundru, Wilbert D.; Moylan, HeatherWorking Paper
Food trade policy and food price volatility
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The enabling environment for large-scale food fortification in Madagascar
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Assessing the impact of rice price stabilization policies in Bangladesh: Results from a stochastic spatial equilibrium model
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Economic valuation of ecosystem services of selected interventions in agriculture in India
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Nutrition-sensitive agriculture diversification and dietary diversity: Panel data evidence from Tajikistan
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Claim-making under India’s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA): Barriers and opportunities for women’s voice and agency over asset selection
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A qualitative study exploring women’s empowerment in coffee cooperatives in Chiapas, Mexico
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Role of international price and domestic inflation in triggering export restrictions on food commodities
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Farm subsidies and global agricultural productivity
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Corporate taxes and labor market informality evidence from China
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Assessing the vulnerability of national food security to international food price shocks: A new index
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The economic importance of cowpea in Nigeria trends and Implications for achieving agri-food system transformation
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Strengthening groundwater governance in Pakistan
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Climate change and agriculture in eastern and southern Africa: An updated assessment based on the latest global climate models
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From promises to action: Analyzing global commitments on food security and diets since 2015
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Extreme weather and undernutrition: A critical but constructive review of the literature
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Small-scale irrigation protects farmers from climate-extreme events: Insights from the 2015/2016 ENSO in Ethiopia
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The SDGs and food system challenges: Global trends and scenarios toward 2030
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Double-booked: Effects of overlap between school and farming calendars on education and child labor
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Evaluation of the value chain development program in Nigeria: Qualitative findings
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The economywide impacts of increasing water security through policies on agricultural production: The case of rice and sugarcane in Pakistan
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Remoteness, farm production, and dietary diversity in Nepal
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Development and Validation of Women’s Empowerment in Migration Index (WEMI)
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Gender, deliberation, and natural resource governance: Experimental evidence from Malawi
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Closing the gendered energy technology gap in rural Ethiopia: A qualitative study
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Ecosystem services may provide large economic values in Kenya and Vietnam: A value transfer application based on results from a systematic literature review
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Can gender- and nutrition-sensitive agricultural programs improve resilience? Medium-term impacts of an intervention in Bangladesh
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A conceptual framework of living labs for people for sustainable food systems
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Zhou, Yunyi; Chen, Kevin Z.; Pham, Thuy Thu; Rodríguez, Luz Ángela; Venegas, MarthaWorking Paper
The role of gender in bargaining: Evidence for selling seed to smallholders in Uganda
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Intervening in complex agrifood systems: Assessing outcomes of a multistakeholder approach in central Mozambique
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When women hold local office: Women’s representation and political engagement amid conflict and climate shocks across Africa
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Women’s Empowerment in Agrifood Governance (WEAGov) assessment framework: A pilot study in Nigeria
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Understanding intra-household food allocation rules: Evidence from a randomized social safety net intervention in Bangladesh
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Modeling the economywide effects of water and energy interventions in the face of climate change
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COVID-19 and livelihoods in rural Guatemala: Lessons from a long term assessment and the path to recovery
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Nutrition-sensitive food distribution amidst inflationary shock: Evidence from a randomized intervention in Egypt
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Evaluating the gendered credit constraints and uptake of an insurance-linked credit product
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Aflatoxin contamination of maize flour in Kenya: Results from multi-city, multi-round surveillance
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Welfare implications of public expenditure in Indian agriculture: New evidence from CS-ARDL Approach
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Public expenditure and growth dynamics in Indian agriculture: Trends, structural breaks, and linkages
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Men can cook: Effectiveness of a light-touch men’s engagement intervention to change attitudes and behaviors in rural Ethiopia
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Trends and determinants of India’s virtual water trade in crop products
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Reverting to traditional views of gender during times of relative deprivation: An experimental study in Nepal
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C’est la vie! Mixed impacts of an edutainment television series in West Africa
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Income aspirations, migration, and investments on and off the farm: Evidence from rural Tajikistan
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Including scalable nutrition interventions in a graduation model program: Experimental evidence from Ethiopia
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Development of a Women’s Empowerment metric for Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WE-WASH)
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Chilalika, Joan; Kamwaba-Mtethiwa, Jean; Chirwa, Gowokani Chijere; Simkoko, Abigail; Chilungo, Abdallah; Upadhyaya, Rachana; Pradhan, Meeta S.; Joshi, Nira; Shrestha, SanishWorking Paper
Resilience in farm technical efficiency and enabling factors: Insights from panel farm enterprise surveys in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan
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Do ultra-poor graduation programs build resilience against droughts? Evidence from rural Ethiopia
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Climate risks and damage abatement effects of pesticides: Evidence based on four-wave panel data in Nigeria
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A multi-country validation and sensitivity analysis of the project level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (Pro-WEAI)
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Can a light-touch graduation model enhance livelihood outcomes? Evidence from Ethiopia
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Spatial market integration of food markets during a shock: Evidence from food markets in Nigeria
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Mapping the design and implementation of seed sector regulation: The case of Uganda
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Adoption and impacts of agricultural technologies and sustainable natural resource management practices in fragile and conflict affected settings: A review and meta-analysis
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The (perceived) quality of agricultural technology and its adoption: Experimental evidence from Uganda
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Mitigating greenhouse gas emissions in Kenya’s food system: Economic interdependencies and policy opportunities
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The digital divide in rural Ethiopia: Determinants and implications of sex-disaggregated mobile phone ownership and use
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Disclosure of violence against women and girls in Senegal
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Accounting for dietary deprivations in rural Africa: Poor households, poor farms or poor food environments?
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Constraints facing rural poultry production in PNG: The role of input suppliers
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What are you talking about? Applying cognitive interviewing to improve survey questions on women’s economic empowerment for market inclusion
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Pereira, Audrey; Rubin, Deborah; Malapit, Hazel J.; Seymour, GregWorking Paper
The architecture of the Sudanese agricultural sector and its contribution to the economy between 1990 and 2021
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Is women’s empowerment bearing fruit? Mapping women’s empowerment in agriculture index (WEAI) results using the gender and food systems framework
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Getting ahead of the game: Experiential learning for groundwater governance in Ethiopia
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Social networks, collective organizing, and freedom of association: A qualitative participatory action research study with women migrant domestic workers in Lebanon
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Climate change, income sources, crop mix, and input use decisions: Evidence from Nigeria
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Agricultural transformation and market integration in the ASEAN region: Responding to food security and inclusiveness concerns
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Bangladeshi women’s experiences and vulnerabilities in Jordan’s garment sector
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Short-term and long-term effects of cash for work: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial in Tunisia
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Miracle seeds: Biased expectations, complementary input use, and the dynamics of smallholder technology adoption
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Impacts of the Russia-Ukraine War price shocks on the Bangladesh economy: A general equilibrium analysis
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Assessing investment priorities for driving inclusive agricultural transformation in Tanzania
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The UN Food Systems Summit 2021: Lessons of the gender and finance levers
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Estimating the cost and affordability of healthy diets: How much do methods matter?
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Is irrigation fit for purpose? A review of the relationships between scheme size and performance of irrigation systems
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The effects of FDI Liberalization on structural transformation and demographic change: Evidence from China
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Border carbon adjustments: Should production or consumption be taxed?
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Elder care in Lebanon: An analysis of care workers and care recipients in the face of crisis
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Valuing control over income and time use: A field experiment in Rwanda
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The impact of price insulation on world wheat markets during Covid-19 and the Ukraine crisis
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Food prices and the wages of the poor: A low-cost, high-value approach to high-frequency food security monitoring
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Measuring empowerment across the value chain: The evolution of the project-level Women’s Empowerment Index for Market Inclusion (pro-WEAI+MI)
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Mswero, Grace; Myers, Emily; Mzungu, Diston; Pereira, Audrey; Pinkstaff, Crossley; Quisumbing, Agnes R.; Ragasa, Catherine; Rubin, Deborah; Seymour, Greg; Tauseef, Salauddin; GAAP2 Market Inclusion Study TeamWorking Paper
The economywide effects of reducing food loss and waste in developing countries
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Analyse des flux physiques, performances économiques et relations au sein des filières de manioc, de riz, de lait et de poisson au Sud-Kivu et Tanganyika (RDC 2021)
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Mitigating poverty and undernutrition through social protection: A simulation analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh and Myanmar
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The role of market concentration in the agrifood industry
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When will civil society sanction the state? Evidence from Mali
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Temperature and low-stakes cognitive performance
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Effects of weather and food market risks on household agriculture-nutrition linkage: Micro-level insights from India
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Common lands in India: Spatial distribution and overlay with socioeconomic and environmental indicators
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The role of spatial inequalities on youth migration decisions: Empirical evidence from Nigeria
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Micro insights on the pathways to agricultural transformation: Comparative evidence from Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa
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