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- 2021: Dietary change and food demand in urbanizing Bangladesh

- Olivier Ecker and Andrew R. Comstock
- 2021: The impacts of rural outmigration on women’s empowerment: Evidence from Nepal, Senegal, and Tajikistan

- Vanya Slavchevska, Marya Hillesland, Erdgin Mane and Cheryl Doss
- 2021: Who claims the rights to livestock? Exploring gender patterns of asset holdings in smallholder households in Uganda

- Marya Hillesland, Cheryl Doss and Vanya Slavchevska
- 2021: Kin transfers as safety nets in response to idiosyncratic and correlated shocks

- Sylvan Herskowitz, Marieke Kleemans and Cristhian Pulido
- 2021: Drivers and consequences of tenure insecurity and mechanisms for enhancing tenure security: A synthesis of CGIAR research on tenure security (2013-2020)

- Rebecca McLain
- 2021: Impact of conflict-related violence and presence of armed groups on food security: Evidence from longitudinal analysis in Mali

- Jean-Pierre Tranchant, Aulo Gelli and Edoardo Masset
- 2021: Using a list experiment to measure intimate partner violence: Cautionary evidence from Ethiopia

- Daniel Gilligan, Melissa Hidrobo, Jessica Leight and Heleene Tambet
- 2021: Gender, demand for agricultural credit and digital technology: Survey evidence from Odisha

- Berber Kramer, Subhransu Pattnaik and Patrick S. Ward
- 2021: Digital tools and agricultural market transformation in Africa: Why are they not at scale yet, and what will it take to get there?

- Kibrom A. Abay, Gashaw T. Abate, Jordan Chamberlin, Yumna Kassim and David Spielman
- 2021: Norms, gender, and payment method affect extraction behavior in a framed field experiment on community forestry in India

- Wei Zhang, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Sanoop Valappanandi, Raksha Balakrishna, Hemalatha Reddy, Marco A. Janssen, Liya Thomas, Pratiti Priyadarshini, Sandeep Kandikuppa, Rahul Chaturvedi and Rucha Ghate
- 2021: Post-program impacts of transfer programs on child development: Experimental evidence from Bangladesh

- Akhter Ahmed, Jena Derakhshani Hamadani, Md. Zahidul Hassan, Melissa Hidrobo, John Hoddinott, Bastien Koch, Kalyani Raghunathan and Shalini Roy
- 2021: This land is her land: A comparative analysis of gender, institutions, and landownership

- Helena Mika and Cheryl Doss
- 2021: The role of asymmetric information in multi-peril picture-based crop insurance: Field experiments in India

- Francisco Ceballos and Berber Kramer
- 2021: Social protection and resilience: The case of the productive safety net program in Ethiopia

- Kibrom A. Abay, Mehari Abay, Guush Berhane and Jordan Chamberlin
- 2021: China’s accession to the WTO and its impact on global agricultural trade

- Joseph W. Glauber
- 2021: Gender, tenure security, and landscape governance: Synthesis of studies of PIM’s Governance of Natural Resources flagship program 2013-2020

- Patricia Kristjanson
- 2021: International model for analysis of agricultural commodities and trade-standard IFPRI multimarket model (IMPACT-SIMM): Technical description for version 1

- Sherman Robinson, Lillian Anderson, Shahnila Dunston, Sherwin Gabriel, Adam M. Komarek, Mason-D’Croz, Daniel and Timothy Sulser
- 2021: Conflict and child mortality in Mali: A synthetic control analysis

- Edoardo Masset
- 2021: Climate change, agriculture, and potential crop yields in Central Asia

- Timothy Thomas, Kamiljon T. Akramov, Richard Robertson, Vijay Nazareth and Jarilkasin Ilyasov
- 2021: Agricultural mechanisation and child labour in developing countries

- Robert Vos and Hiroyuki Takeshima
- 2021: Review and synthesis of IFPRI’s PIM funded program of work on agricultural insurance, 2012-2020

- Peter Hazell and Anne G. Timu
- 2021: Labor-related knowledge transfers from Chinese foreign direct investment in Ethiopia and Tanzania

- Mia Ellis, Margaret McMillan and Manali Sovani
- 2021: Methodologies for researching feminisation of agriculture what do they tell us?

- Cathy Rozel Farnworth, Els Lecoutere, Galiè, Alessandra, Bjorn Van Campenhout, Elias, Marlène, Markus Ihalainen, Lara Roeven, Preeti Bharati, Ana Maria Paez Valencia, Mary Crossland, Barbara Vinceti and Iliana Monterroso
- 2021: Effect of public investments on maize and cereal productivity

- Samuel Benin, Paswel Marenya, Francis Smart, Jenny Smart and Hiroyuki Takeshima
- 2021: COVID-19 school closures and mental health of adolescent students: Evidence from rural Mozambique

- Feliciano Chimbutane, Catalina Herrera-Almanza, Naureen Karachiwalla, Carlos Lauchande and Jessica Leight
- 2021: Women’s tenure security on collective lands: A conceptual framework

- Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Cheryl Doss, Fiona E. Flintan, R. Knight, A.M. Larson and I. Monterroso
- 2021: Costing healthy diets and measuring deprivation: New indicators and modeling approaches

- Karl Pauw, Olivier Ecker, James Thurlow and Andrew R. Comstock
- 2021: Understanding the role of different program components of a nutrition sensitive intervention in mediating impact: Applying causal mediation analysis to experimental evidence from Burkina Faso

- Jessica Heckert, Jessica Leight, Awonon, Josué and Aulo Gelli
- 2021: Women and youth in Myanmar agriculture

- Isabel Lambrecht, Kristi Mahrt and Ame Cho
- 2021: Aspiring to more? New evidence on the effect of a light-touch aspirations intervention in rural Ethiopia

- Jessica Leight, Daniel Gilligan, Michael Mulford, Alemayehu Taffesse and Heleene Tambet
- 2021: Evaluating the impact of multi-intervention development projects: The case of Ethiopia’s community-based integrated natural resources management project

- Gashaw T. Abate, Alan de Brauw, Nicholas Minot, Robert Vos, Solomon B. Wassie, Shijie Yang and James Warner
- 2021: Relative roles and limits of extension approaches in promoting sustainable agricultural management practices: Analysis of nationally representative panel data from Malawi

- Catherine Ragasa, Diston Mzungu, Kenan Kalagho and Cynthia Kazembe
- 2021: Polycentricity and multi-stakeholder platforms: Governance of the commons in India

- Hagar ElDidi, Shivanyaa Rawat, Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Rahul Chaturvedi
- 2021: Agricultural mechanization and gendered labor activities across sectors: Micro-evidence from multi-country farm household data

- Hiroyuki Takeshima and Xinshen Diao
- 2021: Enumerator bias in yield measurement: A comparison of harvest versus allometric measurement of coffee yields

- Vivian Hoffmann, Mike Murphy, Ezra Rwakazooba, Charles Angebault, Godfrey Kagezi and Giulia Zane
- 2021: Public-sector maize research locations and spatial heterogeneity in maize productivity: Insights from four African countries on the roles of agroclimatic similarity

- Hiroyuki Takeshima
- 2021: Self-selection versus population-based sampling for evaluation of an agronomy training program in Uganda

- Vivian Hoffmann, Miki Khanh Doan and Tomoko Harigaya
- 2021: drivers of Africa’s agriculture transformation: A CAADP biennial review account

- Samuel Benin
- 2021: Migration and gender dynamics of irrigation governance in Nepal

- Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Prachanda Pradhan and Wei Zhang
- 2021: How much are multisectoral programs worth? A new method with an application to school meals

- Harold Alderman, Elisabetta Aurino, Priscilla Twumasi Baffour, Aulo Gelli, Festus Turkson and Brad Wong
- 2021: Have households’ livelihoods and food security rebounded from COVID-19 shocks in Nigeria? Results from a follow-up phone survey

- Bedru Balana, Motunrayo Oyeyemi, Adebayo Ogunniyi, Adetunji Fasoranti, Hyacinth O. Edeh and Kwaw S. Andam
- 2021: Is agricultural insurance fulfilling its promise for the developing world?

- Harold Alderman, Francisco Ceballos, Peter Hazell, Berber Kramer, Neha Kumar and Anne G. Timu
- 2021: Can restoration of the commons foster resilience? A quasi-experimental comparison of COVID-19 coping strategies among rural households in three Indian states

- Krister Andersson, Tenzin Chorran, Nathan Cook, Atul Dogra, Karl Hughes, Sanoop Lissah, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Pratiti Priyadarshini and Himani Sharma
- 2021: Can survey design reduce anchoring bias in recall data? Evidence from Malawi

- Susan Godlonton, Manuel Hernandez and Cynthia Paz
- 2021: Gendered perceptions in maize supply chains: Evidence from Uganda

- Bjorn Van Campenhout and Anusha De
- 2021: Enabling environments for nutrition advocacy: A comparison of infant and young child feeding and food fortification in Nigeria

- Danielle Resnick, Kola Anigo and Olufolakemi Mercy Anjorin
- 2021: Video-based behavioral change communication to change consumption patterns: Experimental evidence from urban Ethiopia

- Gashaw T. Abate, Kaleab Baye, Alan de Brauw, Kalle Hirvonen and Abdulazize Wolle
- 2021: Public expenditure’s role in reducing poverty and improving food and nutrition security: Preliminary cross-country insights based on SPEED data

- Hiroyuki Takeshima, Jenny Smart and Xinshen Diao
- 2021: Labor (mis?)measurement in agriculture

- Kate Ambler, Sylvan Herskowitz and Mywish Maredia
- 2021: Reducing vulnerability to forced labor and trafficking of short-term, low-skilled women migrant workers in the South Asia to Middle East corridor

- Hagar ElDidi, Chloe van Biljon, Muzna Alvi, Claudia Ringler, Nazmun Ratna, Sawsan Abdulrahim, Patrick Kilby, Joyce Wu and Zahid ul Arefin Choudhury
- 2021: Understanding the effects of agricultural R&D investments on poverty and undernourishment in sub-Saharan Africa: A causal mediation approach

- Rui Benfica and Alejandro Nin-Pratt
- 2021: Solar-powered cold-storages and sustainable food system transformation: Evidence from horticulture markets interventions in northeast Nigeria

- Hiroyuki Takeshima, Futoshi Yamauchi, Dauda Bawa, Salaudeen O. Kamaldeen, Hyacinth O. Edeh and Manuel Hernandez
- 2021: Promoting school readiness through a preschool feeding program: A nutritional nudge to improve at-risk preschooler’s cognitive development in Armenia

- Heather A. Knauer, Sona Balasanyan, Elmira Bakhshinyan and Harold Alderman
- 2021: School meals as a market for smallholder agriculture: Experimental evidence from Ghana

- Aulo Gelli, Edoardo Masset, Clement Adamba, Harold Alderman, Daniel K. Arhinful, Elisabetta Aurino, Gloria Folson, Isaac Osei-Akoto and Felix Ankomah Asante
- 2021: Nutrition-sensitive social protection programs within food systems

- Deanna K. Olney, Aulo Gelli, Neha Kumar, Harold Alderman, Ara Go, Ahmed Raza, Jessica Owens, Alejandro Grinspun, Garima Bhalla and Omar Benammour
- 2021: Building back fairer from the Covid-19 pandemic in South Africa: Some first step reforms in an era of fiscal constraints

- Channing Arndt, Robert J. Davies, Sherwin Gabriel, Laurence Harris, Michael Sachs and Dirk Ernst van Seventer
- 2021: Gimme shelter: Social distancing and income support in times of pandemic

- Ulugbek Aminjonov, Olivier Bargain and Tanguy Bernard
- 2021: Staying afloat in the milk business: Borrowing and selling on credit among informal milk vendors in Nairobi

- E. Myers, Jessica Heckert, Galiè, Alessandra, Nelly Njiru and Silvia Alonso
- 2021: Transitioning to nutrition-sensitive food environments in Ghana: Triple sector strategies to reduce the triple burden of malnutrition

- Jonathan Mockshell, Collins Asante-Addo, Kwaw S. Andam and Felix Ankomah Asante
- 2021: Did a microfinance ‘plus’ programme empower female farmers and pastoralists and improve intrahousehold equality in rural Ethiopia? Evidence from an impact evaluation using a Project-Women’s Empowerment in Agricultural Index (pro-WEAI) survey tool

- Marya Hillesland, Susan Kaaria, Erdgin Mane, Mihret Alemu and Vanya Slavchevska
- 2021: Hidden hunger: Understanding dietary adequacy in urban and rural food consumption in Senegal

- Wim Marivoet, John Ulimwengu, Leysa Sall, Adama Gueye, Kimseyinga Savadogo and Khadim Dia
- 2021: Exploring women’s empowerment using a mixed methods approach

- Cheryl Doss and Deborah Rubin
- 2021: A review of evidence on gender equality, women’s empowerment, and food systems

- Jemimah Njuki, Sarah Eissler, Hazel J. Malapit, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Elizabeth Bryan and Agnes Quisumbing
- 2021: Recovering from COVID-19: Economic scenarios for South Africa

- Dirk Ernst van Seventer, Channing Arndt, Rob Davies, Sherwin Gabriel, Laurence Harris and Sherman Robinson
- 2021: Sharing tips for rice, chicken and vegetable production: Do voice messages and social learning complement extension services?

- Miguel Almanzar, Alan de Brauw and Eduardo Nakasone
- 2021: Mismatch between soil nutrient requirements and fertilizer applications: Implications for yield responses in Ethiopia

- Kibrom A. Abay, Mehari Abay, M. Amare, Guush Berhane and E. Aynekulu
- 2021: Regulatory Options to Improve Seed Systems for Vegetatively Propagated Crops in Developing Countries

- David Spielman, M. Gatto, Tesfamicheal Wossen, M. McEwan, Tahirou Abdoulaye, Mywish Maredia and Guy Hareau
- 2021: Papua New Guinea agri-food trade trends: Dietary change and obesity

- Emily Schmidt and Peixun Fang
- 2021: Women and small-scale irrigation: A review of the factors influencing gendered patterns of participation and benefits

- Elizabeth Bryan and Nicole Lefore
- 2021: Improving coffee productivity in Ethiopia: The impact of a coffee tree rejuvenation training program on stumping

- Gashaw T. Abate, Tanguy Bernard, Mekdim Regassa and Bart Minten
- 2021: Effects of COVID-19 restrictions on mechanization service providers and mechanization Equipment retailers: Insights from phone surveys in Myanmar

- Hiroyuki Takeshima, Ian Masias, Myat Thida Win and Phoo Pye Zone
- 2021: Africa’s manufacturing puzzle: Evidence from Tanzanian and Ethiopian firms

- Xinshen Diao, Mia Ellis, Margaret McMillan and Dani Rodrik
- 2021: Bragging, shirking, and hiding: Spousal disagreement among Ugandan maize farmers

- Bjorn Van Campenhout, Els Lecoutere and David Spielman
- 2021: Assessing response fatigue in phone surveys: Experimental evidence on dietary diversity in Ethiopia

- Kibrom A. Abay, Guush Berhane, John Hoddinott and Kibrom Tafere
- 2021: Covid-19 and lockdown policies: A structural simulation model of a bottom-up recession in four countries

- Sherman Robinson, Stephanie Levy, Hernández, Victor, Rob Davies, Sherwin Gabriel, Channing Arndt, Dirk Ernst van Seventer and Marcelo Pleitez
- 2021: Explaining the gender gap in profits among entrepreneurs in Malawi

- Dominique Duval-Diop, Jessica Heckert, Jean Lee, Greg Seymour and Katherine Vaughn
- 2021: Assessing the economic cost of depleting groundwater in Balochistan: A Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) multiplier approach

- Noormah Rizwan, Sania Haider Shikoh, Stephen Davies, Muhammad Saad Moeen, Abdul Wajid Rana and Zeeshan Haider
- 2021: When implementation goes wrong: Lessons from crop insurance in India

- Rajalakshmi Nirmal and Suresh Chandra Babu
- 2021: Linked Economic and Animal Systems (LEAS) Model: Technical documentation

- Emerta Aragie, Seneshaw Tamiru Beyene, Ermias Legesse and James Thurlow
- 2021: Drivers of youth engagement in agriculture: Insights from Guatemala, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Uganda

- Suresh Chandra Babu, Steven Franzel, Kristin Davis and Nandita Srivastava
- 2021: Large-scale school meal programs and student health: Evidence from rural China

- Jingxi Wang, Manuel Hernandez and Guoying Deng
- 2021: Does market inclusion empower women? Evidence from Bangladesh

- Kalyani Raghunathan, Gayathri V. Ramani, Deborah Rubin, Audrey Pereira, Akhter Ahmed, Hazel J. Malapit and Agnes Quisumbing
- 2021: Nutrition sensitive food systems in conflict affected regions: A case study of Afghanistan

- Suresh Chandra Babu, Jamshed Looden, Mehnaz Ajmal, Abdul Wajid Rana and Nandita Srivastava
- 2021: It takes two: Women’s empowerment in agricultural value chains in Malawi

- Catherine Ragasa, Hazel J. Malapit, Deborah Rubin, Emily Myers, Audrey Pereira, Elena Martinez, Jessica Heckert, Greg Seymour, Diston Mzungu, Kenan Kalagho, Cynthia Kazembe, Jack Thunde and Grace Mswero
- 2021: A qualitative assessment of a gender-sensitive agricultural training program in Benin: Findings on program experience and women’s empowerment across key agricultural value chains

- Sarah Eissler, Ampa Dogui Diatta, Jessica Heckert and Caitlin Nordehn
- 2021: Effects of COVID-19 and other shocks on Papua New Guinea’s food economy: A multi-market simulation analysis

- Xinshen Diao, Paul A. Dorosh, Peixun Fang and Emily Schmidt
- 2021: Exploring gendered experiences of time-use agency in Benin, Malawi, and Nigeria as a new concept to measure women’s empowerment

- Sarah Eissler, Jessica Heckert, Emily Myers, Greg Seymour, Sheela Sinharoy and Kathryn M. Yount
- 2021: Consumer immobility predicts both macroeconomic contractions and household poverty during COVID-19

- Derek Headey, Ame Cho, Isabel Lambrecht, Elisa Maria Maffioli and Russell Toth
- 2021: Estimating the economic impacts of the first wave of COVID-19 in Pakistan using a SAM Multiplier Model

- Muhammad Saad Moeen, Zeeshan Haider, Sania Haider Shikoh, Noormah Rizwan, Amna Ejaz, Stephen Davies and Abdul Wajid Rana
- 2021: Forecasting commodity prices using long-short-term memory neural networks

- Racine Ly, Traoré, Fousseini and Khadim Dia
- 2021: Constructing a nutrition deficiency index: Applications for the Democratic Republic of the Congo under a decade of humanitarian crises

- Patrice L. Mirindi, Mousumi Das, Patrick N. Mirindi and Suresh Chandra Babu
- 2021: The impact of Ethiopia’s direct seed marketing approach on smallholders’ access to seeds, productivity, and commercialization

- Dawit Mekonnen, Gashaw T. Abate, Seid Yimam, Rui Benfica, David Spielman and Frank Place
- 2021: Crop insurance and crop productivity: Evidence from rice farmers in eastern India

- Anjani Kumar, Sunil Saroj and Ashok K. Mishra
- 2021: Games for triggering collective change in natural resource management: A conceptual framework and insights from four cases from India

- Thomas Falk, Wei Zhang, Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Lara Bartels
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