Agriculture

How supervisors nurture talent in organisations

Supervisors can nurture talent within organisations by passing on tacit production knowledge that improves workers’ performance. Evidence from Uganda shows that investments in supervisors as coaches can be a cost-effective way to boost worker product...

Agriculture

Ritwika Sen

Published

24.10.24

Smallholder farmers’ crop yields and productivity are failing to rise in sub-Saharan Africa

What has new evidence taught us about the evolution of smallholder agricultural productivity in sub-Saharan Africa over recent decades?

Agriculture

Philip Wollburg Thomas Bentze Yuchen Lu Christopher Udry Douglas Gollin

Published

18.10.24

What can we learn from food economics?

Food economics holds important lessons about market power in supply and product markets, poverty and malnutrition, and farm size.

Agriculture

Amelia B. Finaret William Masters

Published

16.10.24

The feedback loop between climate change and agriculture

Anthropogenic climate change will likely intensify the negative environmental impacts of agriculture through powerful feedback loops. This has important implications for development research, policy and R&D investment.

Agriculture

Chris Barrett Jennifer Burney Teevrat Garg Ariel Ortiz-Bobea Trinh Pham

Published

15.10.24

Farmers hold false beliefs about the seeds they grow – and it matters for efficiency

With more inputs, improved crop varieties can yield more. But do Ethiopian maize farmers know enough about their seeds to optimise fertiliser use?

Agriculture

Douglas Gollin Nils Bohr Tim Deisemann Frédéric Kosmowski Travis Lybbert

Published

02.09.24

Applying insights from psychology to help farmers plan and save for the future

A participant-centred planning intervention, that prompted farmers to think through all potential income and expenditures using categorisation and labelling, leads to smoother consumption across seasons, more savings and higher farm yields for Zambia...

Agriculture

Supreet Kaur Kelsey Jack Ned Augenblick Felix Masiye Nicholas Swanson

Published

27.08.24