The long debate on sharecropping and productivity Increasing the tenant’s share in output encourages profitable risk-taking, in addition to large effects on input levels Agriculture Konrad Burchardi Selim Gulesci Benedetta Lerva Munshi Sulaiman Published 07.09.20
Measuring the productivity of smallholder farms in sub-Saharan Africa Collecting data using multiple survey methods can mitigate data errors that magnify the differences between low- and high-productivity farms Agriculture Casey Maue Marshall Burke Kyle Emerick Published 15.06.20
The impacts of agribusiness-led development on farming incomes and profits A shift from a state-led to an agribusiness-led development model in Kenya reallocated profits away from farmers towards agribusiness firms Agriculture Swati Dhingra Silvana Tenreyro Published 05.06.20
Social learning in agriculture: Experimental evidence from Malawi Can policymakers speed up the adoption of modern agricultural technologies through peer-to-peer learning? Agriculture Published 03.06.20
Providing information to empower women in agriculture: Evidence from Uganda Targeting women directly with relevant information in ways that are appealing increases their agency, access to resources, and achievements in farming Agriculture Bjorn Van Campenhout Els Lecoutere David Spielman Published 08.05.20
Buy as you need: Nutrition and food storage imperfections in Burkina Faso Creating village-level cooperatives to buy grain from outside sources and sell it locally reduced nutritional stress, especially among the young Agriculture Jeremie Gross Catherine Guirkinger Jean-Philippe Platteau Published 04.05.20
Impacts of water loss on low-income farmers in India Farmers with dried up wells cultivate less land with fewer profitable crops, while taking up relatively more off-farm employment opportunities Agriculture David Blakeslee Ram Fishman Veena Srinivasan Published 20.03.20
Temporary agricultural input subsidies have lasting impacts: The Mozambique experiment Subsidies need not be permanent to benefit farmers. Well-designed policy that encourages experimentation can generate widespread and lasting impacts. Agriculture Michael R. Carter Rachid Laajaj Dean Yang Published 21.10.19
The effects of land reforms on farm size and agricultural productivity Land reforms, whilst well-intended, misallocate land and labour across farms, thereby reducing average farm size and agricultural productivity Agriculture Tasso Adamopoulos Diego Restuccia Published 08.07.19