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2082: Conflict and child mortality in Mali: A synthetic control analysis

Edoardo Masset

2081: Climate change, agriculture, and potential crop yields in Central Asia

Timothy Thomas, Kamiljon T. Akramov, Richard Robertson, Vijay Nazareth and Jarilkasin Ilyasov

2080: Agricultural mechanisation and child labour in developing countries

Robert Vos and Hiroyuki Takeshima

2079: Review and synthesis of IFPRI’s PIM funded program of work on agricultural insurance, 2012-2020

Peter Hazell and Anne G. Timu

2078: Labor-related knowledge transfers from Chinese foreign direct investment in Ethiopia and Tanzania

Mia Ellis, Margaret McMillan and Manali Sovani

2077: 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

2076: Effect of public investments on maize and cereal productivity

Samuel Benin, Paswel Marenya, Francis Smart, Jenny Smart and Hiroyuki Takeshima

2075: 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

2074: 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

2073: Costing healthy diets and measuring deprivation: New indicators and modeling approaches

Karl Pauw, Olivier Ecker, James Thurlow and Andrew R. Comstock

2072: 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

2071b: Women and youth in Myanmar agriculture [in Burmese]

Ame Cho, Isabel Lambrecht and Kristi Mahrt

2071: Women and youth in Myanmar agriculture

Isabel Lambrecht, Kristi Mahrt and Ame Cho

2070: 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

2069: 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

2068: 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

2067: Polycentricity and multi-stakeholder platforms: Governance of the commons in India

Hagar ElDidi, Shivanyaa Rawat, Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Rahul Chaturvedi

2066: Agricultural mechanization and gendered labor activities across sectors: Micro-evidence from multi-country farm household data

Hiroyuki Takeshima and Xinshen Diao

2065: 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

2064: Public-sector maize research locations and spatial heterogeneity in maize productivity: Insights from four African countries on the roles of agroclimatic similarity

Hiroyuki Takeshima

2063: Self-selection versus population-based sampling for evaluation of an agronomy training program in Uganda

Vivian Hoffmann, Miki Khanh Doan and Tomoko Harigaya

2062: drivers of Africa’s agriculture transformation: A CAADP biennial review account

Samuel Benin

2061: Migration and gender dynamics of irrigation governance in Nepal

Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Prachanda Pradhan and Wei Zhang

2060: 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

2059: 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

2058 v2: Women’s involvement in intra†household decision†making and infant and young child feeding practices in central Asia, No. 2

Dilnovoz Abdurazzakova, Katrina Kosec and Ziyodullo Parpiev

2057: Is agricultural insurance fulfilling its promise for the developing world?

Harold Alderman, Francisco Ceballos, Peter Hazell, Berber Kramer, Neha Kumar and Anne G. Timu

2056: 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

2055: Can survey design reduce anchoring bias in recall data? Evidence from Malawi

Susan Godlonton, Manuel Hernandez and Cynthia Paz

2054: Gendered perceptions in maize supply chains: Evidence from Uganda

Bjorn Van Campenhout and Anusha De

2053: 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

2052: 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

2051: 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

2050: Labor (mis?)measurement in agriculture

Kate Ambler, Sylvan Herskowitz and Mywish Maredia

2049: 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

2048: 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

2047: 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

2046: 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

2045: 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

2044: 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

2043: 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

2042: Gimme shelter: Social distancing and income support in times of pandemic

Ulugbek Aminjonov, Olivier Bargain and Tanguy Bernard

2039: 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

2038: 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

2037: 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

2036: 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

2035: Exploring women’s empowerment using a mixed methods approach

Cheryl Doss and Deborah Rubin

2034: 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

2033: Recovering from COVID-19: Economic scenarios for South Africa

Dirk Ernst van Seventer, Channing Arndt, Rob Davies, Sherwin Gabriel, Laurence Harris and Sherman Robinson

2032: 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