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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 J. 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 A. 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 Seyoum 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 Seyoum 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 A. 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