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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, Mulubrhan Amare, Guush Berhane and Ermias Aynekulu

2030: Where are the opportunities for accelerating food systems innovations for healthier diets? Findings and lessons from Viet Nam

Nancy L. Johnson, Amanda Wyatt and Trang Nguyen

2029: Regulatory Options to Improve Seed Systems for Vegetatively Propagated Crops in Developing Countries

David Spielman, Marcel Gatto, Tesfamicheal Wossen, Margaret 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

2027: Contract farming, profitability, and adoption of food safety measures in broiler production in Bangladesh

Devesh Roy, Gaurav Tripathi, Abu Hayat Md. Saiful Islam and Anjani Kumar

2026: Awareness and practices among dairy producers and consumers in Sri Lanka

Pradeepa Korale Gedara, Devesh Roy, Vinay Kumar Sonkar, Jeevika Weerahewa, Hemali Kanthilanka, Dilini Hemachandra, Kasun Vithanage, Hasara Rathnasekara and Ruchira Boss

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

Elizabeth Bryan and Nicole Lefore

2024: Design of a mobile phone-based Artificial Intelligence (AI) application to assess dietary intake and provide nudges to improve healthy eating choices: Formative research in Ghana and Vietnam

Bianca C. Braga, Noora-Lisa Aberman, Alejandra Arrieta, Boateng Bannerman, Adam Burns, Gloria Folson, Phuong Huynh, Bastien Koch, Pete McCloskey, Phuong Hong Nguyen, Sawudatu Zakariah-Akoto, David Hughes and Aulo Gelli

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

2022: Effective food systems innovations: An inventory of evidence from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Viet Nam, and other low-and middle-income countries

Els Lecoutere, Marrit Van den Berg and Alan de Brauw

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

2018: Food systems for healthier diets in Nigeria: A research agenda

Busie Maziya-Dixon, Thom Achterbosch, Delana Adelekan, Olutayo Adeyemi, Victor Ajieroh, Dare Akerele, Adebayo A. Akinola, Emmanuel Oladeji Alamu, Siemen van Berkum, Kendra A. Byrd, Aafke Nijhuis, Makuachukwu Ojide, Adeyinka Onabolu, Johnson E. Onyibe, Ireen Raaijmakers, Folake O. Samuel, Harriette Snoek, Adekunle M. Yusuf and Inge D. Brouwer

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

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

2016: Changes in women’s empowerment in the household, women’s diet diversity, and their relationship against the background of COVID-19 in Southern Bangladesh

Els Lecoutere, Marrit Van den Berg and Alan de Brauw

2015: Covid-19 and lockdown policies: A structural simulation model of a bottom-up recession in four countries

Sherman Robinson, Stephanie Levy, Victor Hernández, 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, Fousseini Traoré 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

1997: Assessing the impact of lending through Kisan Credit Cards in rural India: Evidence from eastern India

Anjani Kumar, Vinay Kumar Sonkar and Aditya K. S.

1996: Crop insurance and crop productivity: Evidence from rice farmers in eastern India

Anjani Kumar, Sunil Saroj and Ashok K. Mishra

1995: 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

1994: Cash Transfers, Trust, and Inter-household Transfers: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania

David Evans and Katrina Kosec

1993: Impacts of COVID-19 on global poverty, food security and diets

David Laborde Debucquet, Will Martin and Robert Vos

1992: Bringing power to the people or the well-connected? Evidence from Ethiopia on the gendered effects of decentralizing service delivery

Katrina Kosec, Jie Song and Hongdi Zhao

1991: Gender equity considerations in food environments of low and middle income countries: A scoping review

Jennifer Twyman, Talsma Elise, Konstantina Togka, Chiara Ferraboschi and Inge D. Brouwer

1990: Could Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana (PM-GKY) mitigate COVID-19 shocks in the agricultural sector: Evidence from Northern India

Deepak Varshney, Anjani Kumar, Ashok K. Mishra, Shahidur Rashid and Pramod Kumar Joshi

1989: The impacts of cash transfers on mental health and investments: Experimental evidence from Mali

Melissa Hidrobo, Naureen Karachiwalla and Shalini Roy

1988: Social protection and sustainable poverty reduction: Experimental evidence from Bangladesh

Akhter Ahmed, Melissa Hidrobo, John Hoddinott, Bastien Koch, Shalini Roy and Salauddin Tauseef

1987: Coaching, not monitoring? Insights from a school accountability reform in Pakistan

Naureen Karachiwalla, Katrina Kosec, Saher Asad, Masooma Habib, Clare Leaver and Attique ur Rehman

1986: Gender-inclusive governance of “self-help” groups in rural Kenya

Noora-Lisa Aberman, Regina Birner, Elizabeth Auma Okiri Odoyo, Mary Anyango Oyunga, Barrack Okoba and George Otiep Okello

1985: Drivers of food safety adoption among food processing firms: A nationally representative survey in Ghana

Seth Asante, Catherine Ragasa and Kwaw S. Andam

1984: Measurement of intra-household resource control: Exploring the validity of experimental measures

Kate Ambler, Kelly Jones and Maria Recalde

1983: Investment planning to minimize climate risk in agricultural production: An optimization model for a semi-arid region in India

Barun Deb Pal, Shalander Kumar and Elias Khan Patan