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2026: Risk aversion and credit access: Solving financial exclusion through contract innovation

Kate Ambler, M. Mehrab Bakhtiar, Alan de Brauw and Mohammad Riad Uddin

2026: Changes in work participation across genders in rural India: Evidence from 2019 and 2024 time use surveys

Anjani Kumar, Seema Bathla and Dhiraj K. Singh

2025: Women’s empowerment and conflict in Burkina Faso: Learning from a randomized trial and non-random conflict

Jessica Heckert, Doulo Sow, Jean-Pierre Tranchant, Florencia Paz and Aulo Gelli

2025: Effects of brick kiln industry on agricultural productivity: A natural experiment in Bangladesh

Moogdho Mahzab, M. Mehrab Bakhtiar, Martin Mattsson and Md Sadat Anowar

2025: Threshold effects of extreme heat on schooling and child labor in rural Bangladesh

M. Mehrab Bakhtiar and Ridwan Karim

2025: Small and medium enterprise development for climate adaptation and an inclusive food system in Egypt

Linda Steinhuebel-Rasheed, Maram Darwish and Olivier Ecker

2025: Bridging gender gaps in political participation: Experimental evidence on group-based trainings from Nigeria

Claire Adida, Katrina Kosec, Jordan Kyle, Cecilia Hyunjung Mo, Leonardo Arriola, Aila Matanock, Dolapo Adeyanju and Rachel Fisher

2025: Breadwinner role and economic decision-making: Experimental evidence from Kenya

Sveva Vitellozzi, Lucia Savadori, Kristin E. Davis, Carlo Azzarri, Dickson Kinuthia and Piero Ronzani

2025: Unpacking the political economy of fertilizer subsidy reforms

Aditi Chugh and Danielle Resnick

2025: See it grow: A randomized evaluation of a digital innovation to improve crop insurance contract design

Berber Kramer, Francesco Cecchi, Madison Levine and Lilian Waithaka

2025: Inflation and diets among poor mothers in Egypt

Reem Hashad, Nina Jovanovic, Naureen Karachiwalla and Sikandra Kurdi

2025: Targeting of food aid programs: Evidence from Egypt

Mai Mahmoud and Sikandra Kurdi

2025: The impact of a nutrition-sensitive graduation model program on child nutrition: Experimental evidence from Ethiopia

Kalle Hirvonen, Jessica Leight, Daniel O. Gilligan, Hiwot Mekonnen Mesfin, Michael Mulford and Haleluya Tesfaye

2025: Closing the regulatory gap: Experimental evidence on oversight and worker incentives

Elizabeth A.J. Cook, Kate Ambler, Vivian Hoffmann, Lilian Kwamboka Otoigo, Alice Njoki Kiarie and Julia Wagner

2025: When the cure is worse than the disease: Acaricide use, tick resistance, and systemic constraints in Uganda’s dairy sector

Sarah Kariuki, Francisca N. Muteti, Patrick Vudriko, Richard M. Ariong, Bjorn Van Campenhout and Jordan Chamberlin

2025: Insecticide use, farmers’ self-reported health status, and genetically modified cowpea in Nigeria: Findings from a clustered randomized controlled trial with causal

Mulubrhan Amare, Kwaw S. Andam, David J. Spielman, Temilolu Bamiwuye, Chibuzo Nwagboso, Patricia Zambrano and Judith A. Chambers

2025: The two sides of migration in Central America: Distributional impacts in Guatemala

Luis Enrique Escalante, Emerta A. Aragie and Manuel A. Hernandez

2025: Perceived need and measured well-being: How well do subjective rankings capture relative poverty?

Immacolata Ranucci, Kibrom A. Abay and Luca Tiberti

2025: How local leaders view transparency and local autonomy in humanitarian aid distribution: Evidence from Mali

Jaimie Bleck, Lucia Carrillo, Jessica Gottlieb, Sidiki Guindo, Katrina Kosec, Jordan Kyle and Moumouni Soumano

2025: Show me the money! Experimental evidence on preferences for cash vs. digital payment

Kate Ambler, M. Mehrab Bakhtiar, Jeffrey R. Bloem and Mohammad Riad Uddin

2025: The impact of genetically modified cowpea on yields, postharvest losses, and profitability in Nigeria: Findings from a cluster randomized controlled trial

Mulubrhan Amare, Kwaw S. Andam, David J. Spielman, Temilolu Bamiwuye, Patricia Zambrano, Judith A. Chambers, Adetunji Fasoranti and Olufemi Popoola

2025: The landscape of youth engagement in labor markets in Africa: Are youth driving structural transformation?

Kibrom A. Abay, Meseret Wondale, Josphat K. Korir, Fantu Nisrane Bachewe, Mesele Araya and Clemens Breisinger

2025: Public expenditure on agriculture, youth out-migration, and engagement in agriculture? Evidence from Nigeria

Mulubrhan Amare, Hiroyuki Takeshima, Kibrom A. Abay and Steven Were Omamo

2025: Bridging the gap: How human-centered design can help unlock bottlenecks in the diffusion of small-scale irrigation in Nigeria

Bedru Balana, Aminu Abba, Augustine Okhale Iraoya, Musa Tukur Yakasai, Bello Yakasai, Kabiru Abdullahi, Ahmed Usman Shuaibu, Nuruddeen Muhammad Musa, Oliver K. Kirui, Hyacinth O. Edeh and Claudia Ringler

2025: Rewriting the rules: How U.S. tariff paths could reshape global trade

Valeria Piñeiro, Juan Pablo Gianatiempo, Bedru Balana, Jorge Armando Rueda and Joseph W. Glauber

2025: Conflict and agricultural inputs: Impacts on maize yields in Nigeria

Mulubrhan Amare, Kwaw S. Andam, Bedru Balana, Opeyemi Olanrewaju and Steven Were Omamo

2025: Food systems in conflict-prone and climate-affected areas of Northern Nigeria: Humanitarian and development challenges

Bedru Balana, Steven Were Omamo, Mulubrhan Amare, Olufemi Popoola, Chibuzo Nwagboso, Augustine Okhale Iraoya, Serigne Loum, Khusro Jawed and Kwaw S. Andam

2025: Mapping the design and implementation of seed sector regulation: The case of Rwanda

Katrin Kuhlmann, Adron Naggayi Nalinya, David Spielman and Tara Francis

2025: Gender, nutrition-sensitive agricultural interventions, and resilience: Evidence from rural Bangladesh

John F. Hoddinott, Akhter Ahmed, M. Mehrab Bakhtiar and Agnes R. Quisumbing

2025: Can digital cash transfers serve those in active conflict? Evidence from a randomized intervention in Sudan

Kibrom A. Abay, Lina Alaaeldin Abdelfattah, Hala Abushama, Oliver K. Kirui, Halefom Yigzaw Nigus and Khalid Siddig

2025: Economywide assessment of CSA interventions in building resilient agri-food systems in Rwanda

Emerta Aragie, James Thurlow, James Warner and Josue Niyonsingiza

2025: Overcoming budget constraints to healthy diets: Evidence from urban Tanzania

Constantine Manda, Danford Sango, Vivian Hoffmann, Alan de Brauw, Zakayo Zakaria, George Temba, Elizabeth Brown, Dorothy Richards and Said Rashid

2025: Rebuilding trust in local leadership in conflict-affected settings: The impact of community-based cash transfers

Kibrom A. Abay, Halefom Yigzaw Nigus, Goytom Abraha Kahsay and Alemayehu Taffesse

2025: The price of fragility: Shocks, food security, and lessons from Nigeria

Mulubrhan Amare, Steven Were Omamo, Bedru Balana, Kwaw S. Andam, Chibuzo Nwagboso, Augustine Iraoya, Olufemi Popoola, Serigne Loum and Khusro Jawed

2025: Signaling, screening, or sunk costs? Experimental evidence on how prices affect agricultural technology adoption in East Africa

Bjorn Van Campenhout, Gashaw T. Abate, Liesbeth Colen and Berber Kramer

2025: Policy implementation is operational

Steven Were Omamo

2025: Healthy diets and the role of micro, small, and medium enterprises: Examining Ethiopia’s food environment

Alan de Brauw and Kalle Hirvonen

2025: Graduating from Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme: What have we learned?

Kalle Hirvonen, Gashaw T. Abate, Guush Berhane, Daniel O. Gilligan, Melissa Hidrobo, John F. Hoddinott, Jessica Leight and Alemayehu Taffesse

2025: Measuring employment and job quality in agrifood systems: Accounting for backward and forward linkages

Erwin Corong, Madhur Gautam, Will Martin and Rob Vos

2025: Are poor people conditionally cooperative? Contrasting evidence from a field-adapted contributions game

James Allen, Naureen Karachiwalla and Deboleena Rakshit

2025: Senegal at a crossroads: Prioritizing large-scale food fortification under financial uncertainty

Danielle Resnick and Ampa Dogui Diatta

2025: Global food security impacts of extreme weather events and occurrence of breadbasket failures

Will Martin, Reza Nia and Rob Vos

2025: Women’s control over income and household spending decisions: A rapid review

Sarah Eissler and Elizabeth Bryan

2025: The future of food demand: A global meta-analysis and projections of income and price elasticities

Maxime Roche, Andrew Comstock and Olivier Ecker

2025: Gender attitudes in agriculture and positivity bias: A survey experiment in four countries in Sub-Saharan Africa

Catherine Ragasa, Isabel Lambrecht, Ning Ma, Steven Cole, Mohammed Ebrahim, Gizaw Desta, Abiro Tigabie Mersha, Bester Mudereri, Evelyne Kihiu, Christine Kreye and Hellen Peter

2025: Digital literacy training to promote diffusion of digital agricultural tools to smallholder farmers: Evidence from a randomized intervention in Egypt

Fatma Abdelaziz and Kibrom A. Abay

2025: The gendered effects of rainfall on early childhood nutrition: Evidence from Papua New Guinea

Jessica Leight, Rishabh Mukerjee and Emily Schmidt

2025: Displacement and development: Evidence from a graduation program for Somalia’s ultra-poor

Jessica Leight, Kalle Hirvonen, Naureen Karachiwalla and Deboleena Rakshit

2025: Food system institutional mapping and capacity assessment in Niger

Nandita Srivastava, Aboubacar Hema, Suresh Chandra Babu, John M. Ulimwengu and Samuel Benin

2025: Women’s leadership in agrifood governance: Unpacking gender attitudes and framing effects among policymakers with evidence from India and Nigeria

Jordan Kyle and Catherine Ragasa

2025: On the points of failure and entry in global food systems

John M. Ulimwengu

2025: Uncovering the pathways to gender equality and women’s empowerment through agricultural research for development: Lessons from the Feed the Future innovation labs

Sarah Eissler, Elizabeth Bryan and Marilia Magalhaes

2025: Rural credit, food security, and resilience: An empirical evaluation from Kenya

Michael K. Ndegwa, Patrick S. Ward, Apurba Shee and Liangzhi You

2025: Kisan credit card and smallholder farmers’ economic performance in eastern India: A panel data analysis

Kriti Sharma, Anjani Kumar and R.C. Agrawal

2025: Banking systems, capital markets, and financing the transformation of food systems: The role of macroeconomics, regulations, and incentives

Eugenio Díaz-Bonilla and Tamsin Zandstra

2025: Development readiness

Steven Were Omamo

2025: Double burden or Newfound freedom? Women’s empowerment amid large-scale male labor migration from rural Tajikistan

Isabel Lambrecht, Mohru Mardonova Tolibkhonovna, Sarah Pechtl and Charlotte Teirlinck

2025: Do others’ health count for peanuts? Health, market returns, and pro-sociality

Gashaw T. Abate, Tanguy Bernard, Joshua Deutschmann and Fatou Fall

2025: Persistence of individual and social preferences in rural settings

José Gabriel Castillo and Manuel Hernandez

2025: Outcomes and impacts of CGIAR Research Initiatives in Kenya from 2022 to 2024

Sedi Anne Boukaka, Faith Kimaiyo, Berber Kramer, Hailemariam Ayalew and Frank Place

2025: Landscape complexity as determined by socioeconomic trends, climate change, and broad agricultural policies: A study on multifunctional landscapes

Nicola Cenacchi, Athanasios Petsakos, Richard D. Robertson, Chun Song and Abhijeet Mishra

2025: Brewing prosperity: An analysis of living income gaps among coffee smallholders in central Kenya

Sedi Anne Boukaka and Rui Benfica

2025: Cost effective options for inclusive agrifood system development in Tajikistan

Emerta Aragie, Parviz Khakimov, Timur Ashurov, Manuchehr Goibov, Jovidon Aliev, Xinshen Diao, Peixun Fang and James Thurlow

2025: Weather risks and international migration: Panel-data evidence from Tajikistan

Hiroyuki Takeshima, Isabel Lambrecht, Kamiljon T. Akramov and Tanzila Ergasheva

2025: Measuring agrifood systems: New indicators and global estimates

James Thurlow, Brian Holtemeyer, Shiyun Jiang, Karl Pauw and Josee Randriamamonjy

2025: Determinants of household water and energy access and their impacts on food security and health outcomes in Sudan

Oliver K. Kirui, Mosab Ahmed, Mariam Raouf, Hala Abushama and Khalid Siddig

2025: The political economy of large-scale food fortification in West Africa: Pathways toward harmonization

Danielle Resnick

2025: Options for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture and food systems

Robert Vos and Will Martin

2025: Understanding the policy landscape for climate action in Kenya: Potential for integration of gender, nutrition, and improved impact monitoring

Marilia Magalhaes, Elizabeth Bryan, Claudia Ringler, Elvin Nyukuri and Zahid ul Arifin Choudhury

2025: Parametric and machine learning approaches to examine yield differences between control and treatment considering outliers and statistical biases: The case of insect resistant/herbicide tolerant (IR/HT) maize in Honduras

José B. Falck-Zepeda, Patricia Zambrano, Arie Sanders and Carlos Rogelio Trabanino

2025: Detecting cumulative effects of inputs within the flexible production function framework through LASSO shrinkage estimation: Implications for potassium fertilizer use in India

Hiroyuki Takeshima and Avinash Kishore

2025: Business aspects along the rural-urban continuum, outlet type, and gender of ownership among MSMEs in the Vietnamese food environment

Francisco Ceballos, Francisco Aguilar, Alan de Brauw, Trang Nguyen and Marrit van den Berg

2025: Guilty pleasures: Expenditure elasticities of ultra-processed foods and paid meals in India

Avinash Kishore and Manavi Gupta

2025: Tajikistan’s agrifood system: The past performance and future opportunities and challenges

Xinshen Diao, Parviz Khakimov, Timur Ashurov, Jovidon Aliev, Peixun Fang, Josee Randriamamonjy, Karl Pauw and James Thurlow

2025: Under the gun: Military and paramilitary actors in Sudan’s agri-food system

Danielle Resnick, Hala Abushama, Mosab O. M. Ahmed, Oliver K. Kirui and Khalid Siddig

2025: Production and consumption traits and the adoption of improved maize varieties: Evidence from seed sample packs and cooking demonstrations

Bjorn Van Campenhout, Leocardia Nabwire, Berber Kramer, Carly Trachtman and Gashaw T. Abate

2025: ‘Gold runs through these trees’: Preferences for ecosystems payment programs in Papua New Guinea

Rishabh Mukerjee, Emily Schmidt and Brian Holtemeyer

2025: Household wellbeing in rural Papua New Guinea: Poverty analysis from the 2023 PNG Rural Household Survey

Kristi Mahrt, Emily Schmidt, Peixun Fang and Rishabh Mukerjee

2025: Agrifood value chains in India: A state-level analysis using a social accounting matrix

Barun Deb Pal, James Thurlow, Karl Pauw, Xinshen Diao and Manmeet Singh Ajmani

2025: Stakeholder disconnect: Differences between farmers, extension workers, and researchers on preferred strategies for timely wheat sowing in Bihar, India

Shweta Gupta, Avinash Kishore and Michael Burton