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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

2031: 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

2029: 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

2028: Papua New Guinea agri-food trade trends: Dietary change and obesity

Emily Schmidt and Peixun Fang

2025: Women and small-scale irrigation: A review of the factors influencing gendered patterns of participation and benefits

Elizabeth Bryan and Nicole Lefore

2023: 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

2020: Africa’s manufacturing puzzle: Evidence from Tanzanian and Ethiopian firms

Xinshen Diao, Mia Ellis, Margaret McMillan and Dani Rodrik

2019: Bragging, shirking, and hiding: Spousal disagreement among Ugandan maize farmers

Bjorn Van Campenhout, Els Lecoutere and David Spielman

2017: Assessing response fatigue in phone surveys: Experimental evidence on dietary diversity in Ethiopia

Kibrom A. Abay, Guush Berhane, John Hoddinott and Kibrom Tafere

2015: 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

2014: Explaining the gender gap in profits among entrepreneurs in Malawi

Dominique Duval-Diop, Jessica Heckert, Jean Lee, Greg Seymour and Katherine Vaughn

2013: 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

2012: When implementation goes wrong: Lessons from crop insurance in India

Rajalakshmi Nirmal and Suresh Chandra Babu

2011: Linked Economic and Animal Systems (LEAS) Model: Technical documentation

Emerta Aragie, Seneshaw Tamiru Beyene, Ermias Legesse and James Thurlow

2010: Drivers of youth engagement in agriculture: Insights from Guatemala, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Uganda

Suresh Chandra Babu, Steven Franzel, Kristin Davis and Nandita Srivastava

2009: Large-scale school meal programs and student health: Evidence from rural China

Jingxi Wang, Manuel Hernandez and Guoying Deng

2008: 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

2007: 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

2006: 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

2005: 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

2004: 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

2003: 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

2002: Consumer immobility predicts both macroeconomic contractions and household poverty during COVID-19

Derek Headey, Ame Cho, Isabel Lambrecht, Elisa Maria Maffioli and Russell Toth

2001: 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

2000: Forecasting commodity prices using long-short-term memory neural networks

Racine Ly, Traoré, Fousseini and Khadim Dia

1999: 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

1998: 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